Write TWO short essays of approximately 750 words on any two of the following topics from the list of questions provided below.
Both essays should be written in APA citation, but please make sure to include page numbers for all references and citations within the assignments.
Also, please use references from the list of resources provided below, as well as, outside additional academic resources to support the information within both assignments.
1. Briefly summarize the findings and implications of the Rosenhan article for the social construction of crime. Then apply your analysis to an example from the criminal justice system, or another institutional system. How does this approach contribute to our understanding of the justice system?
2. What does Quinney mean by crimes of domination? Crimes of accommodation? Give an example of each.
3. Dupont describes the pluralization of security as a shift in the process of contemporary policing. Define what he means by this term, why this is happening, and provide two examples.
Resources:
Ksenych, E. (2011). Exploring deviance in Canada: A reader. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Kramar, K. (2011). Criminology: Critical Canadian Perspectives. Toronto, ON: Pearson Education Canada.
Kramar:
Assigned chapters for these assignments (I will attach the assigned chapters to the order and additional files once the order is placed):
Kramar:
Criminological Discourse (pp. 1012) and French Postpositivism (pp. 113114) by Kirsten Kramer
Chapter 12: Governing Security by Benoit Dupont (pp. 205211)
Ksenych:
Chapter 12: Body of the Condemned by Michel Foucault
Chapter 13: Life in Prison: Interview with a Lifer by Julian V. Roberts
Chapter 21: Being Sane in Insane Places by D. L. Rosenhan
Chapter 33: The Hacker Spirit: An Interactionist Analysis of the Hacker Ideology by Steven Kleinknecht