No directly quoted material may be used in this project paper.

Resources should be summarized or paraphrased with appropriate in-text and Resource page citations.

In this project, you will conduct one of the following: practitioner interview, criminal court visit, police ride-along, or correctional facility visit.

Practitioner Interview

Your task is to interview an individual of your choice involved in the criminal justice system: a police officer, attorney, judge, probation officer, researcher, current or former inmate, etc. (Note: Military personnel have the option of interviewing an equivalent person in the military.) Should your “expert” not be listed here, contact your instructor.

1) Provide the purpose of the paper and background information on the selected person.

2) Record the person’s views on the criminal justice system—whether the criminal justice system works, in what ways it doesn’t work, and the future of the criminal justice system.

3) Write the paper in a narrative format, detailing what you learned as the result of speaking with this person. Do not submit a “question-answer” paper.

4) Compare and contrast what your expert practitioner had to say with relevant instructional material from this course. Additionally, include one outside source that either supports or challenges what your expert practitioner said.

5) When using the instructional material or other sources, properly document and reference them, and cite all web sources. You must include the name your practitioner.

Criminal Court Visit

Your task is to visit a criminal court session. (Note: Military personnel have the option of visiting the military equivalent.) Depending on when you attend, you could see a series of cases or only one case. Write your reflections on what you observed and how the proceedings seemed to affect the administration of justice.

1) Begin with a cover page with your name, project title, course, and date submitted.

2) Write an introductory section explaining the purpose of the paper.

3) Write your reflections on what you observed and how the proceedings seemed to affect the administration of justice.

4) Compare and contrast what you observed with relevant material. Additionally, include one outside source that either supports or challenges what you observed.

5) When using the text or other sources, properly document and reference them. The name of the court you visited must be included.

Police Ride-Along

This is an observational assignment that focuses on the use of discretion by the police officers who patrol our communities. (Note: Military personnel may participate in a ride-along with a military police officer.) Your task is to ride with a police officer for a few hours and observe who is stopped and why. Who is arrested and why? How does the use of discretion play into the patrol officer’s job?

1) Begin with a cover page with your name, project title, course, and date submitted.

2) Write an introductory section that includes the purpose of the paper and information on the assignment of the officer, his or her department, and the date, time, and duration of the ride-along.

3) Using a narrative format, provide the officer’s views on the use of discretion in his or her job, then follow this with your observations and conclusions based on his or her performance. Use the questions above to guide your observations and questions.

4) Use research information from class materials to analyze the information obtained. Additionally, include one outside source that either supports or challenges what your officer said.

5) When using the text or other sources properly document and reference them. The name of your officer must be included.

Correctional Facility Visit

Your task is to visit a correctional facility (adult, juvenile, military) and compare and contrast what you see with what the text indicates.

1) Begin with a cover page with your name, project title, course, and date submitted. 2) Write an introduction that provides the purpose of the paper and information concerning the facility visited.

2) If possible, interview residents, administrators, and correctional officers. How do they view the correctional process? What are the pros and cons of the types of facilities we have in the United States? How has corrections changed over the past ten years?

3) Write the information down in a narrative format.

4) Compare and contrast the information obtained with course material. Additionally, include one outside source that either supports or challenges what you observed.

5) When using the text or other sources properly document and reference them. The name of the correctional facility you visited must be included.

Format Requirements for all Experiential Project reports

· Paper must be a minimum of 1,500 words No less preferebly more

· Double space

· 12 pt. font

· 1” margins

· Use APA citations for all sources

· Include reference page (not included in word count)

Additionally –

· Create a cover page for your assignment (not included in word count)

· Include your name

· Course title and number

· Project title

· Topic selected

· Date of submission

Must follow Rubrics to receive the highest grade.

NO plagerism

Here are links for a news story that played out in 2008:
“

Palm and California Hands Free Law”

“Palm Supports California Bill Forcing Drivers to Put Phones Down”

http://www.dailytech.com/Palm+Supports+California+Bill+Forcing+Drivers+to+Put+Phones+Down/article4194.htm

“Simitian: ‘Hands-free Law Saving Lives’

http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/category/sacrament/california-state-senate/joe-simitian/

Hands-free is not Risk Free”

http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-Initiatives/Pages/distracted-driving-hands-free-is-not-risk-freeinfographic.aspx

Screen the video and read the articles. NOTE: Joe Simitian and Mary Doyle have known each other since they were both members of
Junior Statesmen of America in the early 1970s.

THE ASSIGNMENT:
Write an essay of around 600 words but no less than 550 and no more than 650 words
commenting on the story the materials above have to tell. Base your essay on your understanding
of history of how politics has been done and how it has evolved in California since the state
ratified its first constitution in 1849. This means that history must be the lens through which you
examine this story. You should be sure that most of your essay is about establishing the meaning
of that history in relation to the hands-free law.
As you will have only 600 words, you must focus your argument carefully by starting with a
well-crafted thesis.
For evidence to support your argument, your response must rely on the materials, lectures, and
videos we have encountered in this class. Apt use of this evidence will be one of the key
hallmarks of an excellent response. YOUR ARGUMENT MUST RELY ENTIRELY ON
YOUR HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT
THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA POLITICS & POWER OVER THE COURSE OF
THE PAST TWO WEEKS. You may relate this history to some of the arguments being
made or some of the above materials, but your argument must mainly draw on a historical
perspective. The richer your historical argument, the higher your evaluation will be.

Conduct an interview with one or both of your parents about your family history. If family is not available to interview, please see your instructor for suggestions. If this is not possible, consider interviewing your spouse’s parents or another older family member such as grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc.

Note key family dynamics, relationship triangles, and relationship processes (instances of emotional fusion or reactive distancing, general level of differentiation in the family, etc.). Be sure to ask couples how they met and about their courtship.

Present your findings in an informal paper of 500-750 words.

Conclude by reflecting on your experience. Did the Bowen structure shed light on any family structures previously unknown?

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

To start our Essay 1 unit, we are reading this week: “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM” by Rebecca Roanhorse and “What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Read and Write?” by Arundhati Roy. One thing to keep in mind is that Roanhorse uses the term authentic and Roy uses the term Appropriate, but they are intact speaking about the same thing.

You can find them in our class reader. These readings focus on the authors’ relationship with language and to an extent reading. After you have read and annotated both pieces, please submit an annotation worksheet which I have supplied.