Criminal justice
Reflection Paper #1 prompt
There is little question that the criminal justice system that plays such a vital role in our society is very much under scrutiny. What has passed as professional conventional wisdom and practice for decades no longer has the support of many outside and quite a few inside of the criminal justice system. Our system has always been the subject of ongoing research and reform but in our time the effort seems to have taken on an acute urgency calling into question our fundamental assumptions. Law professor Adam Benforado has devoted his professional life to probing the ways in which, in his opinion, the system continues to fail society. This semester we will be reading excerpts from his most recent book Unfair. For this assignment you are to read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of his book. Based on your reading, please prepare an essay outlining your reaction to what you have read. You need not agree with Benforado or anything that I might say about him in class. What is required is that you think and write critically about what you have read. It is important that your essay have a point of view and arguments to support it. Your essays are due in class on Wednesday February 17th