write essay answers to four of the five questions below. Your answers must be a minimum of 675 words each. Answers will be graded according to four criteria:
The degree to which they show understanding of the ideas and content presented in class readings, lectures, and films/videos.
The quality of the logical reasoning in your argument
How well you use the material from lectures, readings and film/video to support your argument (draw from at least four examples from different sources for each question – this must include drawing from at least (preferably more) two journal articles for each question)
The quality of your essay writing.
outline 3 points that you can link in a logical argument that addresses the question
QUESTIONS: (Answer 4 from the following)
Policing is influenced by local identity, economy and power. Discuss
“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.” Brian Stevenson. Discuss
A worldwide phenomena, hegemonic masculinity is actively negotiated and resisted. Discuss
Choosing ONE of the following specific categories of identity – race, gender, or indigenous peoples – explain how this concept of culture is mobilized in contemporary struggles with and through justice or legal systems. You can also consider this question in the context of the relationship between local groups and transnational forces.
Excluding human or sex trafficking, make a case as to how a master narrative is at work in a topic we discussed in class this semester.
keywords:
Law and culture; legal culture; law and power
From the distant global to the local global
Systems of law
Inquisitorial vs. adversarial court systems
Courts as theaters of hegemony
Policing
Different models and styles of policing
Policing and justice
Highly ambiguous nature of vigilantism
Vigilantism exposes the limitations of common thinking on rights, law, popular mobilization and civil society
Domestic violence against women: both individual and structural theories of explanation
Cultural identity is given new significance by the international recognition of unique rights for indigenous peoples. Ethnography and other studies of culture have taken on new significance in the struggle to secure or deny rights.
Look deeper into how the US establishes hegemonic control over other countries via both the War on Drugs and its policies on sex trafficking.
Understand the nature of the ‘Master Narrative’ and how it is used in both the War on Drugs and sex trafficking.
Explore different stories or alternative perspectives to the master narrative that could create new realities.
Understand the multiple ‘situations’ that are happening simultaneously beyond just the simple categorization of ‘drugs’ or ‘trafficking’.
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