SOC205H5 Final: SOC305 ASSIGNMENT QUESTION- use as example.doc
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You have approximately one week to complete the following assignment due on. You must submit the paper at the beginning of the lecture. It is important to understand how people make sense of criminality and assumptions made about the criminal and human nature. This assignment bridges the theoretical readings we have been doing with the everyday by getting you to explore the (mis)perceptions and (mis)conceptions of crime circulating in current discourse. You are to select an article from a major metro toronto newspaper that deals with crime, criminals or the criminal justice system from the last two months. Drawing from the material we have covered thus far in the course, your paper will discuss the theoretical assumptions about crime/criminality that the author or others in the article are making. You should also provide a critique of these positions. Not all articles will provide a useful basis for analysis so you may have to do some searching and thinking.
