In this blog post I will be using Reflective Writing to reflect on my Research paper writing process . My research paper provided an argument about prison system in USA. In this blog post I will reflect on my research paper, beside how I wrote it and how I can revise it.
Annotated Bibliography [Categories: Where to Invade Next, Research Paper]: Please complete the following:
In this documentary, Where to invade Next, Michael Moore visited a couple different countries to take stable concepts Americans need from other countries and incorporate them in their lives here in the U.S. He also compared the ideas of education, prison system, vacation, welfare, school lunches, college funds, lifestyle, and working advantages between various other countries system and the U.S system. In this documentary, Where to invade Next, Michael Moore visited a couple different countries to take stable concepts Americans need from other countries and incorporate them in their lives here in the U.S. He also compared the ideas of education, prison system, vacation, welfare, school lunches, college funds, lifestyle, and working advantages between various other countries system and the U.S system. He visited Norway and contrasted the differences of the separate methods of prison. But one main difference that I noticed was that Norway’s way of punishing them is simply taking away their freedom and mainly focuses on rehabilitation, while Americans, in my opinion, have harsher punishments and there is little rehabilitation. It seems that Norway’s approach is more successful since Norway’s incarceration rate is just 75 per 100,000 people, compared to 707 people per 100,000 in the U.S. Sterbenz, Christina. "Why Norway's Prison System Is So Successful." Business Insider, Market Insider, 11 Dec. 2014, www.businessinsider.com/ why-norways-prison-system-is-so-successful-2014-12. Accessed 8 Apr. 2018. This article, on the website businessinsider.com, gave information on the contrast of differences in the Norway prison system and the American prison system. It shows how rehabilitating the prisoners, having resent on the criminal actions that they’ve done, and teaching them a better way to live a good life is more successful than locking prisoners up in cells with bars. The article also shows the results of the big distinction between the two very dissimilar systems with rehabilitating and pure punishment. Norway helps them practice living a morally correct way of life by giving the prisoners individual living spaces with kitchens fully equipped with sharp objects, and friendships between the guards and other inmates. They don’t believe in cruel and unusual punishment (The Eighth Amendment in our own constitution). The article even says “The country relies on a concept called ‘restorative justice,’ which aims to repair the harm caused by crime rather than punish people.” Maybe it’s time to turn prisons into rehabilitation centers. This source is very relevant to my topic because Norway is a perfect example of how inefficient the prison system is in the U.S and Norway gives a great exemplar on how we should imprison our criminals. I can use this is my research paper because I can contrast U.S prisons with other countries prison. Alicea, Janet. "Prison: To Punish or to Reform?" PBS, American Documentary, Inc, 16 Dec. 2003, www.pbs.org/pov/whatiwant/prison-to-punish-or-reform/. Accessed 8 Apr. 2018 This article gave useful information on both sides of the debate of whether to make prisons more rehabilitated focused or if they should stay the way they are now. Although this article is over 10 years, it’s shocking how we still debate on this today. This article featured many different experienced people like Vincent Schiraldi, the founder and president of the Justice Policy Institute. He mostly talked about how our prison’s goal should be turning people’s lives around, which he believes that we are not achieving. This article had many different scholars in this particular field of study debating whether or not we should focus more on rehabilitating prisoners or be punishing them more. A quote by Vincent Schiraldi that perfectly describes why we should focus more on rebuilding the criminals is “If people spend their whole time in prison just bottling up that pain and watching TV, chances are when they come out they are going to burst”. But member of National Board of Trustees for Parents of Murdered Children, Jean Lewis, disagrees. She believes that “The murderer deserves to be segregated from society, not only as a penalty (punishment) but for the safety of the rest of us...My personal opinion (and that of many survivors) is that violent offenders should not be shown leniency." There are obviously two completely different arguments and it shows why the U.S is still indecisive of this choice. This article is relevant to my research paper because it shows two different sides of the argument and debate. It opens another perspective on the discussion and really changes the mindset of your opinions. Moses, Ari. "Recidivism and Rehabilitation." WUPR, 1 Oct. 2014, www.wupr.org/ 2014/10/01/recidivism-and-rehabilitation/. Accessed 9 Apr. 2018. This article gave helpful information on suggestions on how to change the prison system from a prisoner’s perspective. Ari Moses, the author of the article, gave really good points and spoke about how this issue should be taken more seriously. She also wrote about everything from being tough on prisoners to believing in allowing prisoners achieving their education and GED. In general, it was a great eye opener to both sides of the discussion. In the article, Ari Moses was consistently writing about how this matter should be taken way more seriously than it is. For example, Moses wrote “The issue of recidivism and prison rehabilitation also needs to take a larger platform in our nation’s discourse on crime and law-enforcement. In the last presidential election, the issue of recidivism and rehabilitation measures in prisons was not even mentioned in any of the prime-time debates or the Republican primary. “ She also gave lots of statistics about recidivism, the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend, and giving specific examples of cases and prisoners. Overall, she really changed some of my perspective on this topic, like the previous article. This article was relevant to my research paper because Ari Moses gave lots of specific that were eye-openers and she wrote about a lot of suggestions on how to change the system. What I found was really useful to me was the fact that she included both sides in the argument, which gave me a view of two perspectives on this topic. |
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