Overview: In this course, we learn about how criminology is the study of answering the ‘why’ of criminal behavior. And how crime is spread across various geographies and levels of government. For the assignment, download the document Mass Incarceration here. Next, pick one place and learn more about incarceration and the legal system. Please also add an image of your selected correctional facility. You are required to answer a series of questions about that place, hopefully learning more about it and how it compares to the US. You will write up these answers and your reflections on what you’ve learned in an informal paper of 2-4 pages. Stylistic guidance: The “paper” doesn’t need to be particularly well-structured: feel free to write it as a series of one-paragraph responses to the questions below, a little more like a worksheet than a standard paper or a PowerPoint. But it should be written in full sentences, not in bullet points, and it should be proofread. Also, you are required to use content from the textbook and at least two other sources; failure to do so will result in a zero. Why include references so I can tell where you got each piece of information. References can be included as footnotes or reference page. If you cannot find the answer to one of these questions after a half-hour of thorough searching, answer the question by explaining how you searched for the answer and give any related information you found that comes close to the answer. There may be no data available to answer that question for your jurisdiction; part of the goal of this assignment is to have you learn about the limits of available data in this realm. List of Notable Prisons in the United States: * Rikers Island * Louisiana State Penitentiary * Pelican Bay State Prison * Attica Correctional Facility * San Quentin State Prison * ADX Florence Facility * United States Penitentiary Marion Textbook: Adler, Freda, Gerhard O.W. Mueller, and William S. Laufer. 2018. Criminology. 9th Edition. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Education
