750- 800 words per question
- What is the difference between “jurisprudence” and “the sociology of law”? Illustrate the different concerns to which each concept refers with reference to examples. Identify proponents associated with each idea. How do these fields relate to the “justice” model versus the “crime control” model of criminal law? (From Unit 1)
- Describe the profile of Indigenous Canadians in the federal correctional system – numbers, proportions, and trends – and compare them to Non- Indigenous Canadians. Discuss possible alternative reasons for the distinctive pattern of Indigenous representation in Canadian correctional institutions based on (a) the Justice Model and (b) the Crime Control Model. (From Unit 1 )
- What is Manuel Eisner’s evidence for a long-term drop in European crime over the past eight (8) centuries, and how has Norbert Elias’s theory tried to explain this? What do long-term trends in violent crime say about differences in age, gender, and circumstances of violence? How do we explain the recent crime drop? From Unit 4 Article – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935107000503
