09 Jul Define ‘legal paternalism’.
EACH ASSIGNMENT NEEDS 100 WORDS
Lesson Five includes ONLY Chapter Eight.
Chapter 8 assignment:
Q1.Define ‘legal paternalism’.
Q2. List some laws justified by legal paternalism. What is the rationale for having such laws. List a law that we have on the books now that is justified by legal paternalism that you think should be repealed and why.
Lesson Six/Chapters 9 and 10.
Chapter Nine:
Q1. Briefly describe and discuss ‘asset forfeiture’ and why it is so widely criticized.
Q2. We often hear the word ‘discretion’ in our everyday conversations. Everyone exercises discretion to include the police, judges, and attorneys when dealing with victims, suspects, and clients. How would you define the word ‘discretion’? Do you think the use of discretion is similar or different when used by the police and attorneys? Why?
Chapter Ten:
Q1. In the face-2-face ethics class, I often begin the discussion of Chapter Ten with a simple question…’do you think there are any innocent people in prison in the US today?’. What kind of question is that? SO….
Discuss the number of innocents who may be imprisoned. What are the sources for the estimate? What are the criticisms of the sources?
Q2. What are the four types of ethical violations that have been associated with prosecutors?
ASSIGNMMENT 7
Lesson Seven: Chapters 11 and 12
Chapter 11:
Q1. What is a ‘supermax’ prison? What is the criticisms of supermax prisons?
Q2. Do you feel placing inmates in a supermax prison would violate their 8th Amendment rights? What does the 8th Amendment protect us from?
Chapter 12:
Q1. Back to the question of ‘discretion’. Now that you have read Chapter 12…how do COs have discretion similar to police officers and court personnel? What do you feel is the biggest reason for that?
Q2. What are two areas that probation and parole officers have discretion?
LESSON 8
Lesson Eight: Chapters 13 and 14
Chapter 13:
Q1. Briefly explain what Zimbardo’s ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’ was about. What did we learn from this experiment?
Chapter 14:
Q1. In Chapter Five of the text, and again in Chapter 14, there was a discussion about the ‘crime control approach’ and the ‘public service approach’ to lawlessness. Keeping in mind what is happening in the US today, comment on both of these approaches.
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