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Topic: Prosecutorial Reforms and Challenges Prosecutorial Reforms: What are some of the challenges prosecutors face? Learning Materials Research Article: Tempting Expectations: A Qualitative Study of Prosecutorial Reform Instructions and Formatting Requirements: Provide a comprehensive reflection of your critical thoughts on the topic at hand. A minimum of 500 words. It should be typed in Calibri or New Times Roman (12-point font) and double-spaced.  The total required word count makes it about 2 pages in length. Please make sure to use the word count feature in Microsoft Word to ensure you meet the minimum requirement regardless of the number of pages. Suggested organization–equally divided by: Overview and review of classic and contemporary prosecutorial systems Your answer and explanation to the posted question

Case write-ups should be no longer than 2 pages single-spaced and submitted through the link below before the beginning of class on the scheduled date.  Student Advocacy and Sweatshop Labor: The Case of Russell Athletics:  Using insights from the textbook chapters, prior courses, and my lecture, address the following questions: 1) Describe whether Russell Athletic is offshoring or outsourcing. 2) To what degree do Russell Athletics and other firms need to be concerned about labor practices in other countries? 3) Which ethical approach should Russell adopt? Why? 4) Do the managers of Russell Athletics have a different obligation to factory employees than the managers at H&M, Inditex and Walmart? Why or why not? Note that Questions 1 and 4 have objective ‘correct’ responses; Questions 2 and 3 can be considered more opinions that require substantiation.

What do you think? Write a 2 – 5 page essay explaining this bill and the problem it’s trying to solve. Explain the advantages and disadvantages with this approach. What happened to the bill? If you were a legislator, how would you have voted on this bill? Submit in Word. Cite your sources. Every August, Texas has a “tax free weekend.” School supplies and school clothes can be purchased for a few days without the addition of Texas’ 6 1/4 % sales tax – which, around Houston, is really 8 1/4% because of the additional penny for the City of Houston and the additional penny for METRO. What about college textbooks? Have you priced them lately? Ours isn’t too bad (free, right?), but some of my students pay nearly $300 for some science and engineering books. Representative Terry Canales   (D-Edinburg) wants to cut college students in on the action before each regular semester. Go to the Texas Legislature’s website, https://capitol.texas.gov/Home.aspx  (Links to an external site.)  and look up House Bill 21. Hint: Make sure you use the little pull-down menu to select the current legislative session (86R-2019 – that’s the 86th Regular session of the Texas Legislature) and type HB21 in the search window. Resources For anything to do with the Texas Legislature, start with the Texas Legislature’s website: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/ Here’s Rep. Canales’ website: http://www.terrycanales.com/ CBS News writes that textbook costs are rising faster then inflation: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-behind-the-soaring-cost-of-college-textbooks/ It probably doesn’t help that 80% of the textbook industry is controlled by five companies: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-college-textbooks-expensive-textbook-publishing-2018-12   Here’s something from the Daily Texan – the student newspaper at UT Austin: https://thedailytexan.com/2019/02/05/college-students-spend-about-500-a-year-on-textbooks-one-texas-lawmaker-wants-to-throw  (Links to an external site.) Previous Next

For this discussion, you will examine the effects on the community that result from a mass murder, or when a serial killer is active. Since we are looking at the reaction that the killer generates, choose from one of the following killers: David Berkowitz (New York) Wayne Williams (Atlanta) Danny Rolling (Gainesville, Florida) Review popular news magazines like Time and US News, or newspapers from the local area, so that you can put yourself in the position of someone in the community who was living through that time period. For instance, for the Rolling case, look at the Gainesville Sun from that time period; if you choose David Berkowitz, check out the New York Times or NY Post. This will give you a connection to the case you won’t get from a website created long after the fact. Based on your review, discuss the following questions. Describe the effects of the case on the local community. Did local residents change their behavior in any way? Did the police involve the community in the investigation? What other effects on the community might such a case cause? USE APA FORMAT

Do you think the Three Strikes Law is an effective crime deterrent? Why or why not? I will like to argue that even though it has some effective qualities, it is still ineffective in stopping violent crime. 1 reason – The threat of a life sentence is not going to stop people who are act impulsively, without thought to the likely consequences of their actions Another reason -will disproportionately impact minority offenders More elaboration and more reasons are needed.

Please answer the following questions in an essay format: Who has the right to claim rights?  What are the necessary conditions for claiming one’s rights? How does this relate to Farmer’s concept of “structural violence?”  Provide examples from the texts.  Please answer the following questions as an question and answer format:  How does blaming the victim produce harmful effects for those in need of aid?  You may either offer ideas related to the text, or ideas related to your own life/our community. What strategies do you think should be instituted in order to minimize the types of inequalities presented in the reading? How do gender, class, and race inequality affect our local community?

https://mga.view.usg.edu/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=2157510&type=coursefile&fileId=The+New+Jim+Crow.pdf The New Jim Crow.pdf Read the article “The New Jim Crow” and discuss the following questions: 1. What is Alexander referring to as the “New Jim Crow?” Why does she use that terminology and what does it signify? 2. Based on your knowledge of the old Jim Crow system, describe similarities and/or differences between the old Jim Crow system and the new. 3. There has been much discussion among politicians and others about the need for Criminal Justice reform in the US. Do you agree or disagree that reform is needed? Why or Why not? What in particular would you change about the system, if anything? Research the topic and provide references.

Choose a political topic that interests you, such as BLM, the legalization of marijuana, or gerrymandering. Find a podcast, a television segment (can be on YouTube, but has to be from TV Network), and an Internet article about this topic. Then write a one-page paper answering the questions below. How was your topic presented differently on the podcast than it was on television or the Internet? Do you think your issue will be discussed in the televised debates this election? How do different media tell the same story? Do any present a more balanced story? Which covered your topic the most in depth? Which covered it the least?

After viewing the assigned materials, answer the following questions as three separate posts. 1. Why do you think migrants and prostitutes are particularly at risk to be trafficked due to coercion and exploitation? 2. What role does gender and socio-economic status play in terms of risk of trafficking? 3. What similarities do you observe between the examples of trafficking in India and Eastern European states in terms of the root causes and the obstacles to reducing it? Any differences?

What is your experience with self disclosure? After studying Lessons 4.1 and 4.2, spend time completing the following reflective writing assignment. Use these questions as a jumping off point for your thoughts on disclosing your “self” to others. Choose two of the three to write on: Have you ever said too much on a first date? At a job interview? To a professor, family member, or friend? Have you ever posted something on Facebook only to return later to remove it? If you answered yes to any of the questions, describe the experience, then explain what you learned in this chapter that might now lead you to do something different. Have you experienced negative results due to self-disclosure? If so, what could have been altered in the decisions of what, where, when, or how to disclose that may have improved the situation? Under what circumstances is it OK to share information that someone has disclosed to you? Under what circumstances is it not OK to share the information? Why? Why not? Remember, reflective writing enables you to explore and think deeply about what you are learning. You’ll want to refer back to portions of the text which have influenced you, but you do not simply want to restate what the text (or videos) have said. You are attempting to dig deeper…. to wonder…. and to reflect on what you have realized about self-disclosure. Develop (at minimum) 15 to 20 sentences per prompt. Ultimately, you want to make this assignment your own. Make your exploration substantial. Self-disclosure is in many ways the essence of interpersonal communication. Spend some time with this.