Description
Answer all of the following prompts in an essay format. Make sure to supply as much detail as possible including examples when needed. Be sure to cite all your work. Use in-text citations and complete your work-cited sections. See the Purdue Owl Writing Lab (Links to an external website for MLA and APA essay formatting examples.
1. Pick a sociological topic and discuss it using one of the three theoretical perspectives; Structural Functionalist, Conflict or Symbolic Interactionist Perspective.
2. Many actions prove useful to reduce the prevalence of crime. Both prisons and communities can take actions that will make a difference, both in preventing crime and in changing the lives of ex-convicts.
In two fully developed paragraphs:
Compare the varied and sometimes contradictory suggestions for reducing crime.
Provide an example of an action a prison could take to reduce recidivism.
Provide an example of an action a community could take to reduce crime among its citizens.
3. Drug laws have created greater problems than the drugs themselves, legislation to control drugs has failed to reduce demand, the prohibition of what a large segment of the population is committed to doing is impractical, and a legalization of drugs would lower the price of drugs and initiate declines in drug-related crime.
Discuss the social impact of the legalization of marijuana. What will be the social benefits and detriments of such law? Should other drugs be legalized; which ones, and why?
4. Enter all work cited in an MLA or APA format
5. 2500 words.
