CHAPTERS1-3 of PALMER, JOHN W. (2010). CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF PRISONERS, 9TH EDITION. CINCINNATI: ANDERSON PUBLISHING COMPANY.
[ISBN: 978-1593455033] (Use of force; corporal punishment; visitation; searchers
FOCUS: DETAIL THE MAJOR FORCES DEFINING AND SHAPING THE NATURE OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, CULTURAL, FINANCIAL, POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL,

IDEOLOGICAL, ETC.)

Instructions for Writing Weekly Assignments
The central of objective, once you have read the chapter for the week, is for you to critically think about the information presented in the chapter. Then, write a

critical analysis on what YOU perceive to be the most essential elements in the chapter, focusing primarily (but not exclusively) on a few selected issues.
Please note that the goal is NOT for you to write a summary of the material (chapter). Instead, the focal objective: 1) Read the chapter, 2) analyze the presented

information in the chapter, 3) write an analysis of what you read and analyzed, and 4) as you present YOUR analysis, make a MAIN argument that is reflective of your

analysis, in its totality.

Your MAIN argument should incorporate EVERYTHING you detail (write) in your 2-page paper; that is, everything you say in your paper should point (support) your main

argument in regards to what you read and analyzed. For example: let?s assume that Chapter 1 is about ?illegal drugs,? which involves SO many different issues. Now, as

you read the chapter and analyze the presented information, you wish to make an argument that drugs in the US should be legalized. OK, as such, your main argument

would be the ?legalization of drugs in the US,? and everything in your 2-page paper should point (support) to your main argument.