Bethel University

Bethel University

Week 4

250 Words each question

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• Abused children are likely to become delinquent in part because of their maltreatment. Should maltreatment be used to mitigate a youth’s future delinquency?

• Is bullying a social problem or a minor nuisance that all people experience in their lives? Why might bullying contribute to school-associated violent deaths?

• In some states, schools have banned items such as purses from classrooms because the bags could hold illegal drugs or firearms and, therefore, could compromise school safety. Are zero-tolerance school policies, such as banning purses, worthwhile?

• Emile Durkheim viewed punishment as highly moral. How would Durkheim assess acquiescence in the drug war? Does society have an obligation to combat drug use and vice generally?

Week 5.

250 Words each qus

3 APA reference

• Electronic monitoring allows many youth opportunities to remain in the community. Monitoring also permits closer surveillance than traditional probation. Are juveniles advantaged or disadvantaged during electronic monitoring?

• Were Durkeheim and Erikson correct that the best we can hope to accomplish is to keep delinquency under control- that we can never fully eliminate it? Explain your answer.

• Extralegal factors influence the treatment that individuals receive from criminal justice personnel. Is the justice system held to an unrealistic ideal of equality that other social institutions are not? If not, why?

• Policing is a largely reactive endeavor. Allegations that the police discriminate against African Americans by actively patrolling minority neighborhoods are largely anecdotal. How do the offender-victim relationship and official and victimization data address the issue of police bias against African Americans?