Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review the article Blended Sentencing Laws and the Punitive Turn in Juvenile Justice (Schaefer and Uggen, 2016). In addition, please review resources included in your Week 3 Annotated Bibliography assignment. Finally, examine the Building a More Just Society case scenarios multimedia below. Background You work as a paralegal in a public defender’s office. In an upcoming presentation to a local legislative committee, the public defender plans to address criminal justice issues, constitutional principles, cultural sensitivity, and diversity awareness to promote social justice goals in local communities. You have been asked to assist the public defender in preparing the presentation. To this end, you will explore processes and issues in three criminal cases, applications for criminology, and relevant critical perspectives toward the goal of building a more just society. Your Task The public defender hopes to gain funding to support programs that respond to criminal justice issues and that promote a more just society. Earlier in this course, you had an opportunity to criminology through the works of Messer et al. (2016), Salvatore (2017) and Zoutewelle-Terovan & Skardhamar (2016). These authors consider how criminology may help to explain factors that associate with crime. Recall for example the consideration of life course theory in Messer et al. (2016). To help the public defender with preparation, you have been asked to create a paper between six and eight pages in length. Your description of processes, explanation of issues, and analysis of critical perspectives will provide the foundation for the public defender’s address to the local legislative committee, and thereby promote support for programs and laws that address large societal problems and that promote the social justice principles of equality, solidarity, and human rights to build a more just society. The public defender has come across three distinct cases that highlight the criminal justice issues that the legislature needs to address. Each case is preceded by a video summary that will comprise a portion of the public defender’s presentation to the legislative committee. To provide context for the public defender’s presentation to the legislative committee, the initial part of your paper should explain issues and describe processes about the following case scenarios: The Three Cases Case No. 1: Juvenile Justice and Law Enforcement Case Description (also included in the multimedia content) Through the process of waiver, the defendant was transferred from the juvenile justice system to the criminal justice system on drug related charges. If convicted, the defendant could receive a prison sentence. The defendant resides in an impoverished community. The public defender seeks funding for community treatment centers that respond to drug issues. When in custody, the defendant claims that law enforcement asked incriminating ques ...

1. Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review the
article Blended Sentencing Laws and the Punitive Turn in
Juvenile Justice (Schaefer and Uggen, 2016). In addition, please
review resources included in your Week 3 Annotated
Bibliography assignment. Finally, examine the Building a More
Just Society case scenarios multimedia below.
Background
You work as a paralegal in a public defender’s office. In an
upcoming presentation to a local legislative committee, the
public defender plans to address criminal justice issues,
constitutional principles, cultural sensitivity, and diversity
awareness to promote social justice goals in local communities.
You have been asked to assist the public defender in preparing
the presentation. To this end, you will explore processes and
issues in three criminal cases, applications for criminology, and
relevant critical perspectives toward the goal of building a more
just society.
Your Task
The public defender hopes to gain funding to support programs
that respond to criminal justice issues and that promote a more
just society. Earlier in this course, you had an opportunity to
criminology through the works of Messer et al. (2016),
Salvatore (2017) and Zoutewelle-Terovan & Skardhamar (2016).
These authors consider how criminology may help to explain
factors that associate with crime. Recall for example the
consideration of life course theory in Messer et al. (2016). To
help the public defender with preparation, you have been asked
to create a paper between six and eight pages in length. Your
description of processes, explanation of issues, and analysis of
critical perspectives will provide the foundation for the public
defender’s address to the local legislative committee, and

2. thereby promote support for programs and laws that address
large societal problems and that promote the social justice
principles of equality, solidarity, and human rights to build a
more just society.
The public defender has come across three distinct cases that
highlight the criminal justice issues that the legislature needs to
address. Each case is preceded by a video summary that will
comprise a portion of the public defender’s presentation to the
legislative committee. To provide context for the public
defender’s presentation to the legislative committee, the initial
part of your paper should explain issues and describe processes
about the following case scenarios:
The Three Cases
Case No. 1: Juvenile Justice and Law Enforcement
Case Description (also included in the multimedia content)
Through the process of waiver, the defendant was transferred
from the juvenile justice system to the criminal justice system
on drug related charges. If convicted, the defendant could
receive a prison sentence. The defendant resides in an
impoverished community. The public defender seeks funding for
community treatment centers that respond to drug issues.
When in custody, the defendant claims that law enforcement
asked incriminating questions about the investigation. While the
defendant’s parents were present during the custodial
interrogation, law enforcement did not communicate the right to
remain silent in the primary language of the parents of the
defendant. It is uncontested that the parents have no
understanding of the English language. Think about how
cultural sensitivity could inform decisions on which officers are
assigned to communities with diverse languages.

3. Issue and Process Summary
For this case, the processes include (1) waiver from the juvenile
justice system to the criminal justice system and (2) law
enforcement communication with persons in custody. Issues in
this case include (1) drug related challenges for criminal justice
and (2) law enforcement communication in multilingual
communities.
Case No. 2: The Judiciary
Case Description (also included in the multimedia content)
In this case, the defendant claims that a juror was excluded
based on race. The juror was in the same, recognized protected
racial group as the defendant and was struck by the prosecutor
with a peremptory strike (no reason stated for removing the
juror from the panel). When asked for reasons to strike the juror
based upon objective information from what she stated during
voir dire
, the prosecutor did not provide any reason at all and just
asserted that this was the choice for the preemptory strik The
defendant asserts that the exclusion in this case is in violation
of constitutional rights and undermines the legitimacy of the
trial process. In this case, the record does not contain any
information that would suggest an alternative basis for the
exclusion of this juror.
Please review the case summary of
Foster v. Chatman
(2016) available through the webpage link under the “Required
Resources” section and consider how the United States Supreme
Court addresses an issue of racial discrimination within the
context juror exclusion.

4. Issue and Process Summary
For this case, the processes include (1) juror selection and (2)
juror responsibilities in a criminal case. Issues in this case
include juror exclusion by race.
Case No. 3:
Corrections
Case Description (also included in the multimedia content)
For this case, the defendant claims that the correctional facility
conditions violate Eighth Amendment rights, due to cruel and
unusual punishment in the form of overcrowded cell conditions.
The defendant argues that cell conditions were highly
unsanitary and unacceptably crowded for a sustained period, in
violation of constitutional rights.
Issue and Process Summary
For this case, the processes include monitoring of cell
conditions. Issues in this case include cell conditions within the
context of the Eighth Amendment.
The Final Paper
You will prepare a six- to eight-page paper that addresses the
questions below which relate to each of the three cases. To
provide context for the public defender’s presentation to the
legislative committee, the first section directs you to summarize
issues and describe processes. As a reminder, each case includes
a process and an issue summary to assist you in your response
in this first section. Note that the Wright (2012) text includes
helpful information on processes. Be sure to include at least
five relevant sources other than the textbook, at least three of

5. which must be found in the Ashford University Library. Of the
five sources required (in addition to the textbook), three must
be scholarly and the remaining two may be either scholarly or
credible. It is expected that you will draw resources from your
Week 3 Annotated Bibliography assignment, but you may select
other resources if you choose to do so.
Consider using Q for your library research and to access
writing supports, and tutoring services available to you. See the
Guide to Installing and Using Q (Links to an external
site.)Links to an external site.
for more information.
*Note: To access the Ashford University Library directly, click
on the Writing Center and Library links in your left navigation.
Watch the
Database Search Tips
(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
video for more and see
Searching the Ashford University Library
document
for assignment-specific search tips.
Please structure your paper as follows:
Title of your Paper
Summary of Issues and Processes Section
. Please address each of the elements below:

6. Explain criminal justice issues in law enforcement (Case No. 1),
the judiciary (Case No. 2), and corrections (Case No. 3).
Describe processes for juvenile justice (Case No. 1), law
enforcement (Case No. 1), the judiciary (Case No. 2), and
corrections (Case No. 3)
.
Case Assessment Section
. Address each of the following prompts:
Case No. 1: Criminology
Describe an application for criminology (consider life course
theory, strain theory, or another criminological theory) that
addresses a drug-related criminal justice issue relevant to Case
No. 1.
To assist you with this part, consider how a criminological
theory could support a criminal justice program or approach that
addresses drug related challenges.
Cases No. 1 and No. 2: Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity
Awareness
Apply knowledge of cultural sensitivity and diversity awareness
to a criminal justice issue relevant to Case No. 1 and to a
criminal justice issue relevant to Case No. 2.

7. To assist you with this part, consider how knowledge of cultural
sensitivity and diversity awareness could be applied to
approaches relevant to law enforcement communication in
multilingual communities (Case No. 1) and to juror exclusion by
race (Case No. 2)
Case No. 3: Constitutional Principles
Interpret constitutional principles relevant to social and
criminal justice for an issue that relates to Case No. 3.
To assist you with your interpretation, consider how
constitutional principles in this context relate to goals for social
justice and to goals for criminal justice.
Critical Perspectives
Analyze two critical perspectives on a criminal justice issue of
your choosing relevant to one of the three cases.
To assist you with your analysis, consider potential merits and
limitations for each critical perspective, and how the critical
perspectives may provide insights on how to address the
criminal justice issue.

8. *Note: You are encouraged to integrate any feedback from your
instructor and
upload the assignment to your ePortfolio
.
The Building a More Just Society paper
Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length (not
including title and references pages) and formatted according to
APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.
.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page,

9. refer to
APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.)Links
to an external site.
.
Must utilize academic voice. See the
Academic Voice (Links to an external site.)Links to an external
site.
resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your
introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis
statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing
Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.)Links to
an external site.
as well as
Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.)Links to
an external site.
, refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
Must use at least five sources in addition to the textbook, three
of which must be found in the Ashford University Library. Of
the five sources required (in addition to the textbook), at least
three must be scholarly and the remaining two must be either
scholarly or credible.
The
Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to
an external site.)Links to an external site.

10. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If
you have questions about whether a specific source is
appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor.
Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a
specific source for a particular assignment. The
Integrating Research (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.
tutorial will offer further assistance with including supporting
information and reasoning.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center’s
Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.
guide.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted
according to APA style. See the
Formatting Your Reference List (Links to an external
site.)Links to an external site.
resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.
Carefully review the
Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external
site.
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.