CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. APPLICATION PAPER 1
CRIME AND Punishment

Instructions:
Write on the topic below. Your paper must be 3 full pages double spaced, using Calibri or Times New Roman 12 point font with 1 inch margins all the way around. Use a cover sheet with your name, the date, and the title of the paper. The first line of the first page of your paper must be at the top of the page. You may cite course readings and lecture notes in your paper. You may also include outside sources (NOT WIKIPEDIA OR OTHER QUESTIONABLE SOURCES). Be sure you cite outside sources properly using the following format:

Within the context of the paper, just following a paraphrase/quote from a source:
(Author Last Name, year of publication: page number(s)), i.e. (Feagin, 2007: 201).

Then include the full citation on a reference page after the end of your paper (not considered part of the 3 pages):
Last Name of Author, First Name. Year of Publication. Full Title of the Text, City of
Publication, Publishing Company.
i.e.:
Loewen, James. 1996. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American Textbook
Got Wrong. New York, NY: Touchstone Publishers.

Your work will be graded on a 1–point scale:
1 points for following instructions (margins, citations, length, etc.)
2 points for spelling, grammar, and organization
2 points for utilizing a clear thesis statement that addresses the assignment in the first paragraph or section of your paper and building your paper around this statement
2 points for utilizing an effective combination of personal voice and empirical (research-based) evidence to make a sociologically relevant (structurally-focused) argument
3 points for demonstrating a clear understanding of relevant course concepts

Address the following in your paper:
1. In class, we have discussed forms of “justice” such as surveillance (through patrolling) and forms of punishment enacted during the early history of the U.S. These actions were utilized in an attempt to formalize methods of control in our (at the time) new society. Reichel argues that many aspects of formal control are implemented as a way to control the “dangerous classes.” Given what we have learned about these early forms of justice, who were the elites considering to be the “dangerous classes?”
2. Describe in detail several (2-3) forms of “justice” utilized to control the so-called “dangerous classes.” Who was responsible for enacting the “justice?” Who were these acts of control directed at? Tie these individual actions and experiences to a larger sociological picture—how were social institutions involved in the creation and maintenance of these forms of control? What people groups were privileged, and which were oppressed, through these forms of control?
3. The true meaning of justice is an action that is morally right and fair. Given this definition, would you call these early forms of social control acts of justice? Why or why not? It not, how would you define these early methods of formal control?

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