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    The individual debate assignment provides a topic and sources for a debate on criminal justice reform in the United States. The topic is whether the country should implement: 1) community oriented policing, 2) restrictions on plea bargaining, or 3) the elimination of private prisons. A variety of sources are provided that take affirmative or negative positions on each of the three options. An additional alternative of abolition is presented with sources taking both affirmative and negative stances.

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    Individual Debate Assignment Topic and Sources

    Topic:

    The criminal justice system in the United States should implement one of the following: community
    oriented policing; restrictions on plea bargaining; or the elimination of private prisons.

    Sources:
    Community Oriented Policing

    Affirmative:

    Braga, A. A., Brunson, R. K., & Drakulich, K. M. (2019). Race, place, and effective policing.
    Annual review of sociology, 45(1), 535-555.

    Skogun W. (2022). Prospects for Reform? The Collapse of Community Policing in


    Chicago. University of Chicago Law Review, 89 (2).

    Negative:

    Dias, R. A. (2015). Racism Creates Barriers to Effective Community Policing. S. Ill. ULJ, 40,
    501.

    Luis Daniel Gascon, Aaron Rousell, "The limits of community policing," Chapter 6, 2019,
    New York University, Link to PDF.

    Plea Bargaining

    Affirmative:

    Findley, K. A., Amaya, M. C. A., Hatch, G., & Smith, J. P. (2022). Plea Bargaining in the
    Shadow of a Retrial: Bargaining Away Innocence. Wis. L. Rev., 533.

    Lucian E. Dervan and Vanessa A. Edkins., The Innocent Defendant's Dilemma: An


    Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining's Innocence Problem, 103 J. Crim. L. &
    Criminology 1 (2013).

    Reilly, B. (2012). Just who should be “crashing the system”? Unprison. Retrieved from:
    https://unprison.com/2012/03/13/just-who-should-be-crashing-the-system/

    Negative:

    Conklin, M. (2020). In Defense of Plea Bargaining: Answering Critics' Objections. W. St.


    UL Rev., 47, 1.

    Heiner, B. (2016). The procedural entrapment of mass incarceration: Prosecution, race,


    and the unfinished project of American abolition. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 42(6),
    594-631.
    Private Prisons

    Affirmative:

    Craig, R., & Pond Cummings, A. D. (2019). Abolishing private prisons: A constitutional
    and moral imperative. U. Balt. L. Rev., 49, 261.

    Jay. (2019). From Mass Incarceration to Mass Coercion. Monthly Review (New York.
    1949), 71(7), 24–36. https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-071-07-2019-11_2

    Negative:

    Pfaff, J.F. (2020) The Incentives of Private Prisons, Arizona State Law Journal, 52, 991.

    Davis, A. Y., & Shaylor, C. (2020). Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex:
    California and Beyond. Meridians, 19(S1), 87-111.

    Abolition Alternative

    Negative:

    McDowell, M. G., & Fernandez, L. A. (2018). ‘Disband, disempower, and disarm’:


    Amplifying the theory and practice of police abolition. Critical Criminology, 26(3), 373-391.

    Affirmative:

    Barkow, R.E. (2022) Promise or Peril?: The Political Path of Prison Abolition in America.
    Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN:
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=4232267 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4232267

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