Prepare a final paper consisting of 4 essays that answer the following questions: (1) How does discretion contribute to the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of innocent people? (2) What is the best way to insure that innocent people are not prosecuted for crimes that they did not commit? (3) How can the U.S. criminal system improve sentencing to insure that the punishment is proportional to the crime based on the offender’s prior criminal history and level of culpability and is consistent with the level of punishment imposed in other parts of the U.S. for similar crimes and similar criminal offender backgrounds? (4) What needs to happen within the criminal system to guarantee that racism, classism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry and bias do not play any role in the decisions made by professionals working in the criminal system—law enforcement-courts-corrections? Each of these issues has already been raised during the semester with the exception of Innocence.
Specific Guidelines:
This is not an opinion paper. Each question must be answered relying on recent, reliable, credible research (no Wikipedia or one-sided sources). You may use appropriate sources that we read in the class during the semester and also adapt work previously submitted in the class if it is relevant to the question. Each answer must be one (1) page double-spaced, using 12” Times New Roman font, with 1” margins without the question typed on the answer page(s). You need to prepare a separate cover page to include with the answer pages. The cover page must contain your full name, course number and name, date, and “Final” in the top left margin. Please copy in the four questions in the center of this cover page.
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