Criminal Justice

Order Description the essay has to be about Wright Mills explains that a sociological imagination permits us to understand that sometimes private trouble are actually better understood as public issues. In addition, a sociological imagination lets us see the connection between one person’s biography and the history and social structure in which that biography unfolds. Select at least two of the readings above (besides Mills) and explain why and how the authors demonstrate that they have a sociological imagination when it comes to corrections (or incarceration). Use examples from the two readings to make your case about the sociological imagination in their work. must use these readings to do this paper: Christianson, S. (2002). Prisons: History. In Encyclopedia of crime and justice. Vol. 3. Joshua Dressler (Ed.), pp. 1168– 1175. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. Cullen, F. & Jonson, C.L. (2012). From Theory to Policy: Evidence-Based Corrections. In Correctional theory: Context and consequences (pp. 1-22). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Marx, K. & Engels, F. (1978). The Communist Manifesto. In The Marx/Engels Reader (2nd ed.), Tucker, R. C. (Ed.) (pp. 14-27). New York: NY: W.W. Norton & Company. Mills, C.W. (1959). The Promise of the Sociological Imagination. The sociological imagination. New York: Oxford University Press. Travis, J. & Western, B. (2014). Introduction. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (pp. 13-32). National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved from: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18613/the-growth-of-incarceration-in-the-united-states-exploring-causes. Veblen, T. (2007). Chapters 1 & 2 The theory of the leisure class. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.)