CRMN 3027 U- Delinquency, Deviance, and Youth Crime
Take Home Final Examination
Weight: 35% of Final Course Grade
Due Date: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Please answer the following question in a take home writing assignment format. This means that you want to be writing in full sentences and paragraphs, but you need not have a thesis or thesis statement since this is not a formal essay but rather a proposed law.
QUESTION
On November 20th, 2020 you were officially sworn in as the new Junior Minster of Justice for the Government of Canada! You have been tasked with assisting the Federal Minister of Justice/Attorney General (David Lametti) with policy reform specifically related to youth justice. The Prime Minister believes that the Youth Criminal Justice Act is no longer effective (and questions whether it ever was) and needs to be replaced by a piece of legislation that is EVIDENCE BASED (based on CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH). Furthermore, the Federal Minister of Public Safety (Bill Blair) believes that reforming the Youth Criminal Justice Act will help reduce GUN VIOLENCE across the country. They are aware that your undergraduate education covered the subject of Canadian youth justice policy. You have been asked to prepare a proposed new youth criminal justice framework (that will form the basis for a NEW bill (called the Youth Justice Act) that you believe will substantially reduce YOUTH CRIME (and in particular YOUTH GUN VIOLENCE) that is firmly grounded in CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH EVIDENCE. Please provide an in- depth and detailed EVIDENCE BASED proposal for your new YOUTH JUSTICE ACT, and ARGUE for why you feel (based on criminological evidence) that it has the potential to be SUCCESSFUL in SUBSTANTIALLY reducing YOUTH CRIME (and in particular YOUTH GUN VIOLENCE). Within your proposal, you are expected to anticipate a number of CHALLENGES (or counter-arguments) that might be presented by opposition political parties and groups, and discuss in depth and detail your strategy for addressing these challenges. In building your arguments, please rely on the following sources of information and evidence:
A) Lectures from this course
B) Assigned readings from this course
C) Your term paper from this course
D) Research from other students’ term papers, from this course.
E) Current events.
F) Outside research on foreign youth justice laws and policies NOT addressed in points A to E.
TOTAL MARKS: 100
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Take Home Final Examination appeared first on Homeworkassisters.
