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Final Essay

Essay

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DUE: 12/23 at 11:59 by blackboard

BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE FILE-NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR THIS COURSE (5% penalty if you do not).

NAME THIS ASSIGNMENT: hussein_sa_final_essay


DON'T STOP UNTIL YOU SEE END OF ASSIGNMENT.


In this 650 - 750 word essay (250 words is roughly one page of double-spaced 12-point font text -- so this assignment asks for 2.25 -3.25 pages of writing; see details below) answer the following question:

How does the history of New York's night court, women's night court, and the midtown community court (as represented here ) demonstrate what seem to be two universal truths of criminal justice policy: (A) there are often unintended consequences of even the most well-meaning of policies and (B) politics more than knowledge often shapes criminal justice policies.

BE SURE THAT:

1. You present evidence in the form of direct quotations related to all three courts; in short, do not ignore one of the courts.

2. You discuss both (A) and (B) from the essay question for all three courts.

3. That each claim in your paper pushes forward a thesis that answers the question I asked above.

In those paragraphs in which you present evidence (but not those, like introductions or conclusions), adopt the cl/ev/wa structure and other instructions in the gray box below.

As always, your CLAIM is the answer to the question and claims, as we have discussed, are stronger if they contain a reason.

 

1) place a (CL) before your claim, an (EV) before your evidence, and a (WA) before your warrant.

(-5% IF YOU DO NOT)

2) reduce your direct quotations to 10 or fewer words (see here if you do not know how to do this)

(-5% IF YOU DO NOT)

3) integrate your direct quotations using either METHOD 3 OR METHOD 4 FROM THE EXPLANATION OF HOW TO INTEGRATE QUOTATIONS

(-10% IF YOU DO NOT)

4) punctuate the quotation properly
(-5% IF YOU DO NOT)

 

 

END OF ASSIGNMENT