Choose one question/statement from the list below. Write a 2-3-page (double spaced) paper in
response. You will need to research the topic area before you develop a thesis (in other
words, your topic statement or argument): begin with Mad Matters. Next, do library research
and find at least five scholarly, peer reviewed articles that relate to your topic. Use these to
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inform and support your discussion. DO NOT use websites as sources of information for this
paper.
1. Explain the concept of epistemic violence. How does it apply to the experiences of
people who are labelled as “mentally ill”?
2. What is a Community Treatment Order? Why are they controversial?
3. What is “recovery” in mental health? Discuss it as viewed from a psychiatric survivor
perspective vs. a professional perspective.
4. What is Mad Pride? How and why is it important to the Mad movement?
The paper will be graded based on the short paper criteria (see the link in the eClass), which
addresses readability (including grammar, punctuation, and spelling, and referencing style), the
quality of your thesis, the quality of the support for your arguments, adherence to guidelines,
and your ability to incorporate course concepts into your paper.
Use APA 7th edition style to format and reference your short paper. (NOTE: you don’t need an
abstract for this paper). If you are unfamiliar with APA, please see the APA website or the Owl
Purdue education website
Other requirements:
– Do not use material from websites, a dictionary, or an encyclopedia.
– Do not quote the lectures. This material comes from other source material–look for the
original whenever possible.
– Review the use of medical terminology vs. refusal terminology (see Chapter 5 and the
chart on page 83 of the textbook). Using medical terminology in your paper limits the
scope of your discussion in this course; use refusal terminology instead.
– Do not quote without using quotation marks; always reference ideas that are not
considered “common knowledge”
– Submit your paper through Turnitin1 before the due date (you will be able to resubmit) in
order to view your similarity report.
– Write your paper early and then make use of the online Writing Program. There are also
some very useful resources for writing available on SPARK.

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The main written component in this course is a short (6-8 pp.) argumentative essay on one of the
nine topics listed below.
The essay should use a minimum of six good-quality sources, including government or NGO
sources (e.g., statutes, Supreme Court or provincial superior court decisions, reports, discussion
papers, etc.) and/or scholarly sources (i.e., books or book chapters published by a scholarly press,
articles published in a law review or in a peer-reviewed academic journal).
The essay should be written in a standard academic format (i.e., it should be double-spaced and
use a 12-point font, one-inch margins, pagination, etc.) and make correct use of a recognized
style of scholarly citation (e.g., APA, Chicago, MLA).
Get started early!

1. Some activists and scholars have proposed “treaty federalism” as a new way of thinking
   about the Canadian constitutional order and the place of Aboriginal peoples within it.
   Treaty federalism is a concept that identifies the historic treaties signed after the Royal
   Proclamation of 1763 as integral parts of the Constitution of Canada. Could fully
   integrating treaties into the Constitution of Canada mark a path toward reconciliation
   between the Crown and Aboriginal peoples? Why or why not?
2. The Supreme Court Act requires that at least three of the nine Supreme Court Justices be
   from Québec, to ensure there is always sufficient knowledge of the province’s distinctive
   civil law tradition on the Court. Convention has long held that all the country’s regions
   should be represented, too (although developments in the last few years suggest this
   convention may be giving way to more demographically oriented convention regarding
   representation and diversity on the Court). Has the time come to also institute a
   requirement, either by statute or by convention, that at least one of the Supreme Court
   Justices have an Indigenous background and/or demonstrated knowledge of Canada’s
   diverse Indigenous legal traditions? Why or why not?
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3. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have criticized Canada’s continuing
   practice of indefinite immigration detention as an affront to internationally recognized
   standards for the humane treatment of immigrants and refugees. Detainees and their
   advocates in Canada have also mounted a series of legal challenges to the practice of
   indefinite immigration detention on both administrative law and constitutional grounds –
   with mixed success. Do you think Canada should abandon indefinite immigration
   detention? Or could the practice be reformed in such a way as to eliminate some of its
   worst excesses?
4. In Charkaoui v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) the Supreme Court struck down
   the “security certificate” scheme which allowed immigration officials to detain a foreign
   national or permanent resident based on secret evidence and without any chance for
   appeal or judicial review. However, an amended version of the scheme allowing for the
   representation of detainees by “special advocates” was later upheld by the Court in
   Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Harkat. Critics argue that the amended scheme
   is still a form of arbitrary detention and call for Canada to deal with its security concerns
   using criminal law instead of immigration law. Should the security certificate scheme be
   eliminated? Why or why not?
5. In Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests), the Supreme Court identified
   the Crown’s “duty to consult” whenever government action potentially threatens an
   Aboriginal right. Some critics allege that the Crown too often delegates this duty to
   administrative agencies (e.g., the National Energy Board) and sometimes even to private
   resource development companies, undermining the spirit of nation-to-nation negotiation
   the duty to consult was originally meant to foster. How much of a problem is the
   delegation of the Crown’s duty to consult? What could be done to improve the
   effectiveness of consultation as a means of advancing reconciliation between the Crown
   and Aboriginal peoples?
6. In a pair of decisions handed down last week, R. v. Sullivan and R. v. Brown, the
   Supreme Court struck down s. 33.1 of the Criminal Code, a controversial provision
   which precluded the defence of automatism for any general intent, bodily integrity
   offence committed while the accused was in a voluntary, self-induced state of “extreme
   intoxication”. The Court found that s. 33.1 instituted “a regime of absolute liability that
   undermines many of the core beliefs used to structure our system of criminal law” and
   violated s. 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Should Parliament accept
   these decisions as settled law? Or do we need a provision like s. 33.1 in the Criminal
   Code to ensure that violent offences committed while the accused is intoxicated do not go
   unpunished?
7. After Gerald Stanley, the man who shot and killed Colten Boushie, was acquitted of
   second-degree murder by a jury that had no Indigenous people sitting on it, the federal
   government moved to enact legislation eliminating peremptory challenges from the jury
   selection process. The constitutionality of this legislation was upheld by the Supreme
   Court of Canada in its decision in R. v. Chouhan. What further measures could be taken
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   to make juries in criminal trials more diverse and more representative of the population
   than they are now? Which of those measures do you think would be most effective?
8. Despite little evidence that they are effective and a great deal of evidence that they are a
   major factor contributing to the overrepresentation of Indigenous and Black offenders in
   the criminal justice system, legislators and judges cannot seem to resist the temptation to
   create mandatory minimum sentences for crimes that receive a lot of media attention. The
   Alberta Court of Appeal’s imposition of a nine-year “starting point” minimum sentence
   for fentanyl trafficking in two recent decisions is just one high-profile example. Do
   mandatory minimum sentences serve a valid purpose in the criminal law? Or should they
   be eliminated to allow judges to fully exercise their discretion when sentencing
   offenders?
9. Although s. 10(b) of the Charter guarantees the right to retain and instruct counsel upon
   arrest and detention, there is no general right to legal aid in Canada. Many critics of the
   criminal justice system argue that the conditions in which the right to legal aid is
   triggered are too narrow and leave far too many accused persons without proper legal
   counsel. What, if anything, should be done about this situation? Would the introduction
   of something like a US-style system of public defenders in the provinces be a good idea?

[WLOs: 2, 3] [CLOs: 2, 3, 4]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the article Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Criminality: How Long Must We Live Before We Possess Our Own Lives? (Links to an external site.) and the additional sources now present in the “Killer Bio” application (below) that pertain to you’re the killer you chose from the Week 1 Discussion. For your Final Case Report, due in Week 5, you will explore, in depth, one well-known criminal case. Using the same client as before, consult your Killer Bio app along with sources provided throughout the course:

Review the Killer Bios: Professional Resources List to learn more about these infamous murderers. The list contains several University of Arizona Global Campus Library sources on each murderer. In addition, there are some starter links listed below under each name in the following interactive.

Here, as in earlier assignments, the individual whose case you chose will be your client for the purpose of your Comprehensive Case Study Report Final Paper. That is, you have been hired as a mitigation specialist by this individual’s defense attorney to investigate, analyze, and present the underlying biopsychosocial factors that you found were present in this individual’s background and that may explain why your client committed such heinous criminal acts. For the purpose of your Final Paper in Week 5, we will assume that your client is facing the death penalty, and your job is to use the results of your biopsychosocial investigation to provide credible evidence that your client should not be executed by the state. For this assignment, we will proceed as if your client has not yet been sentenced and thus is still alive, even though in all of these cases, your client was ultimately found guilty and in some cases, may have been executed (or may be deceased).

Using the University of Arizona Global Campus Library, examine the criminal behaviors involved in your case using a minimum of four scholarly and/or credible sources.

In your paper,

• Analyze a minimum of two particular psychological factors that explains the client’s criminal behavior, such as specific environmental/situational, biological, or mental health issues that may explain this individual’s crimes.
• Create an outline that examines a minimum of two particular psychological factors explaining your client’s criminal behaviors.

Note: For further information regarding the proper format for Outlining (Links to an external site.), visit the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center.

• Each topic or step of the outline should include two to three sentences regarding what will be discussed in that section, focusing on the particular psychological factors that explains the criminal behaviors
• Cite specific examples from the sources that support your research and analysis. For example, if you find that your sources show early childhood trauma is a factor in criminal behavior and your client suffered early childhood trauma, or had a high ACES score, write about that connection between your source and your client’s case.

Note: You are encouraged to integrate any feedback from your instructor and upload the assignment to your ePortfolio (Links to an external site.).

The Final Comprehensive Case Report Topic and Outline paper

Senior Seminar Project

In Week 1, you chose a topic area and problem or challenge within that area. Throughout this course, you have researched the dynamics of the problem. The final piece of your project is to develop a viable solution that considers resources, policy, stakeholders, organizational readiness, administrative structures and other internal and external factors, as applicable. Using the papers you have written throughout this course, consolidate your findings into a succinct project. Â

Write a ten (10) page paper that as a minimum, your project should include:

Identify the topical area (e.g., local police department, community jail, border patrol)

Define a problem or challenge within your topical area that you understand in some depth or have an interest in (examples include high crime rate, poor morale, high levels of violence or recidivism, high number of civilian complaints of harassment, inadequate equipment). Outline the context of the problem or challenge, including the history and any policy decisions that have contributed to the situation.

Describe how internal or external stakeholders have influenced the situation in a positive or negative way. How will you consider stakeholders in your solution to the problem? How will you motivate individuals to buy into your solution?

Discuss how technologies or information systems have contributed to the problem and how you will propose technology be implemented into the solution.

Discuss what data you have collected or researched to indicate there is a problem. Include at least two sources of data and how each is relevant to the problem.

Develop an effective and efficient solution(s) and a course of action (i.e., plan) that addresses the problem or challenge.

Explain what methods of assessment you will employ to measure the effectiveness of your solutions.

Develop a 10-15 slide PowerPoint Presentation that summarizes the seven items above.

Use at least 8 quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Assess a policy or problem and develop solutions based on available resources, taking into account the political and global implications.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in criminal justice.

Write clearly and concisely about criminal justice using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the assignment rubric.

Week 10 Assignment Probation and Punishment

In preparation for this assignment, please view the Jurisville scenarios and resulting simulations from Weeks 8 through 10 in the Corrections unit.

In the scenarios and resulting simulations, Robert Donovan, a Jurisville probation officer, discusses the intricacies of probation. Kris, the defendant, is offered an intensive supervised probation plan to follow. Brennan Brooke, a senior criminologist, discusses the tailoring of the inmate to the appropriate facility. Finally, Orlando Boyce, a sergeant at the fictional Deephall correctional facility, discusses measures that could conceivably make prison life effective and thus decrease the likelihood of recidivism.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

Outline your findings from your review of the file of Kris, for whom Robert is considering probation. State whether or not your results from the file review match Robert’s. Explain two (2) instances in which your views and those of Robert are both similar and different.

Develop a profile of the so-called perfect candidate to participate in an intensive supervised probation program. The profile should contain at least three (3) attributes that you believe make this defendant the perfect candidate for this type of probation.

Defend or critique the strategy of matching the inmate to the correctional facility as a response to the legal concept of cruel and unusual punishment. Provide a rationale for your position with concrete examples.

Defend or critique whether programs and amenities geared to making prison life effective—which run the gamut from hiring extra officers, to counseling and therapy, to building a garden—are time and taxpayer money well spent.

Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Outline the major characteristics and purposes of prisons, including prisoners’ rights and prison society.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in criminal justice.

Write clearly and concisely about criminal justice using proper writing mechanics and APA style conventions.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.