While I am not one hundred percent certain I am going actually major in Criminal Justice, as of right now it is my major and I am fairly happy with it. There are many topics that one could write about when thinking about criminal justice. For instance: "Are America's prisons too crowded?" Many people belive that America's prisons are too crowded and that we need to stop imprisoning as many people. Much of the overcrowding has to do with America's harsh punishment for parol violators and second time offenders. If we lessened the punsihment imposed for these minor crimes we could save our country a great deal of money and space. This would be the main topic of my paper- Why America needs to decrease its prison population.
Another possible criminal justice topic could be: "Are there too many criminal laws?" It seems like almost every day a new law is made and that it is nearly impossible to go a week without breaking at least one of them. If I were to write a paper on this topic the main focus would be "Why we do not need so many laws." I would write about this because I feel as though our government has too much control over us and we are losing the idea of being "a free nation." Yes laws are necessary to keep order, however, we do not need anywhere near as many as we have now.
My third and final idea for this project right now is: "Are cops too corrupt?" We give the police a lot of power and at the end of the day they are merely the same person as we are; just with a badge and a gun. Our nation is full of dirty cops who abuse their athority and do what they please. In this paper I would focus on why cops are too corrupt and what we can do as a country to fix this solution.
Jake- I think your first idea on America's prisons being too crowded is a great and interesting idea. It seems like a good topic that you can really expand your ideas into a greater depth. Sounds like you know a lot about this topic and could start a great research paper.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like u have a solid idea of what your thinking about about doing. What i suggest is to maybe base your paper on there being too many laws becuase from there you can go in depth about too many people in prison as a result from so many laws.
ReplyDeleteI think that your idea about cops being corrupt would be very interesting. As kids we all tend to hate the cops, but it would be interesting to see if they really were taking their auothority to an unecessary level.
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