The Additional Readings Exercise. (essays in the Jacoby reader)

(Directions)

Instructor will contact you via email or Course Announcements to inform you of your group assignment and whether or not you are the selected discussion leader for a Jacoby chapter each week. The discussion leader will post her summary of the article to the small group threaded discussion board. Each of the small group members will ask questions based on the summary and post these to the same threaded discussion. Discussion leader will post answers to these questions to threaded discussion.

Each week a chosen student will post a summary of one of the additional readings. This summary should include:

§         a list of the author’s major points

§         the principal types of criminals and crimes their model best explains

§         the primary weaknesses of their theory as you see it

While all students should read these additional essays, only those in the small group should pose questions for the discussion leader.

Discussion leader will attempt to answer these questions as if they were put to the original essay author. For example, how would Bentham respond to a question such as “What are the major benefits of controlling criminals using a panopticon design?”

Group leader needs to post their summary of the article by Thursday so that other students in the group can post their questions on Friday and Saturday, giving the leader time to answer them on Sunday.