Criminal Justice Theory
NSTRUCTIONS:
Read through
Texts:
Slate, Risdon N., Buffington-Vollum, Jacqueline K., and W. Wesley Johnson (2013).
Criminalization of Mental Illness Crisis & Opportunity for the Justice System, Second
Edition.Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
http://www.texasarson.com/slate8_13.pdf
Hopkins Burke, Richard (2012).Criminal Justice Theory An Introduction. New York,
NY: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
http://www.texasarson.com/RHB368.pdf
INSTRUCTIONS:
The purpose of this assignment is to assess your familiarity with the assigned material by having you engage in a discussion about the reading material we have just completed.
1. What does the material in Hopkins Burke tell us about the philosophy of law and legal ethics and how does this material relate to Slate and Johnson’s discussion of legal issues dealing with PWMI? How does Hopkins Burke’s prognosis for the “future of criminal justice” contribute to this discussion?
2. After reading the material in Hopkins Burke focusing on punishment in modern society, what do you consider to be the most important issues facing today’s “corrections agencies?” Make sure to include discussion of how PWMI are being handled in today’s post-adjudicative agencies. How does Hopkins Burke’s prognosis
Review Rationale Tutorial 1 and Rationale Tutorial 2.
Argument Map 5 is another grouping assignment designed to let you practice argument mapping.
First, check out the ideas below. Two of them are contentions; the others are reasons and helping premises for the contention. They have been scrambled. Your task: Produce argument maps that correctly identify and structure the contention, reasons, and helping premises.