Your mid-term activity consists of authoring an original analytical paper of at least 5 pages ( (not just 5) title page, conclusion, and references page DO NOT count for the minimum page requirement) presenting an applied position emerging from your exploration of scholarly sources (i.e. course material and external references) you have studied up to this point of the course. As you address the question that follows, you need to consistently and meaningfully interact with your consulted scholarly references and format your work according to APA rules.
Specifically, in your paper you need to respond to the following:
Critically DISCUSS whether mass incarceration is a problem or not and WHY.
As you develop your arguments, consider how issues such as policing, challenges in the American court system, and other factors studied thus far in this course impact the concept of mass incarceration and whether they contribute to it being a problem consider how issues such as policing, challenges in the American court system, and other factor studied thus far in this course impact the concept of mass incarceration and whether they contribute to it being a problem or not.
Please be thorough, critical (that is, argue with your sources), and methodical in your analysis. Also, feel free to incorporate in your Mid-term paper propositions and information previously used during the semester, but if you do so, you need to make sure that you do not recycle what you wrote in your past work. If you do so your paper will be AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED, and you will receive 0% credit for self-plagiarism. Therefore, if you wish to incorporate arguments or information used in previous work, you need to expand those readopted discussions from what you originally presented in support of your previous course work and delve deeper into the issues while alerting the reader that your proffered positions/arguments are rooted in discussions and/or observations previously offered in class.
Also, do NOT use Wikipedia, blogs, or other popular-level sources. Strictly use academic resources such as textbooks (to include our selected course books), peer-reviewed journals, law review articles published by law reviews of accredited higher-learning institutions, published doctoral dissertations, approved/reviewed theses, etc. In addition, your papers need to be properly organized via the use of headers and sub-headers. Failure to compartmentalize your discussions with headers and sub-headers, support your work with scholarly materials or use Wikipedia and similar popular-level sources as support will cause your paper to be rejected and receive (0%) no credit.
Hint with Citations: Every statement that you make in your paper through which you claim (1) facts that you did not witness; or (2) is based on data that cannot be considered as common knowledge information (i.e. Rudy Giuliani was NYCs mayor during the 9/11 attacks) needs to be supported by scholarly sources.
All Mid-term papers need to be submitted and screened for originality via SafeAssign by Sunday, at 5:00 PM PM (EDT).