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Students will choose a California criminal jury trial that occurred within the past two years.A case from San Diego is even better.You’ll need to find one that was widely covered in the media (a lot of news articles online, televised coverage, maybe even a Dateline, etc.). You will do extensive […]

Expressing Your Ideas for an Academic Audience and Plan for Additional Research Apply what you have learned about formal language and academic writing to write your own 2- 2 ½ pages draft of an essay that analyzes a relevant change in your field of study. Your paper must analyze either […]

Introduction to the issue (this is not to be used in your paper):Youth adjudicated delinquent of criminal offenses that land them in detention facilities to serve out their sentences have a disproportionately high number of adverse childhood experiences (trauma history).The days of juvenile justice being solely about keeping a child […]

Countries have developed a broad range of options for addressing juvenile crime. Finland and Germany are among those that largely favor the use of social welfare and educational practices over incarceration. The United States traditionally favors detention of juvenile offenders, with over 50,000 people under the age of 18 currently […]

Using case summaries available on line or the case itself (but pretty complicated so not a good idea YET) WRITE A CASE BRIEF (500 word minimum) ON ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CASES. Must be entirely in your own words and no quotations. Marbury v. Madison: Citizens United v. FEC: Summers […]

Click the link to read the handout “What Constitutes Entrapment by Government Agents?”, and answer the questions below. Do you think that, in this case, “the government overstepped the line between setting a trap for the ‘unwary innocent’ and the ‘unwary criminal'”? Why, or why not? HSL 2301 DISCUSSION BOARD […]