Assignment:
Questions must be throughly answered:
1. Discuss the safeguards recommended by the United Nations Economic and Social Council regarding the death penalty. Do you agree with these recommendations? Why or why not?
2. Review the international research on self-reported delinquency, what is the most common outcome? Do you see additional trends in delinquency compared to delinquency in the United States? If so, what additional trends do you see?
3. Discuss the following and how they apply to juvenile offenders: Beijing Rules (Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice), Riyadh Guidelines (Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency), and JDLs (Rule for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty). If you could use these as a guideline to create a standard in the United States; what would this standard look like?
4. Examine the use of corporal punishment in other countries. Do you agree with the use of corporal punishment? Should corporal punishment be allowed in the United States, why or why not?
5. Discuss the International views of capital punishment. How are these views different from those in the United States? Have the International views of capital punishment had an impact on how capital punishment is used in the United States; if so, how?
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Readings:
1. An International Perspective on Corrections
2. An International Perspective on Juvenile Justice
By Philip L. Reichel