Take Home Exam

JST203 Take Home Exam Order Description   Task Part 2 is made up of 5 short answer questions and is worth 30%. The word limit is a guide, but you should be able to answer each of these questions within 200-250 words, excluding in-text citations and references. As a guide, 2 references per question. All terminology and sources must be Australian! This task should not be done in essay form. It is a take home exam so question and then answer is fine. Questions: 1. The establishment of the NSW Drug Court occurred after Foucault developed his theories on punishment. What aspects of Foucault's theories are applied in the NSW Drug Court? What limitations are inherent in the NSW Drug Court? 2. Explain why community correction orders may be a more suitable sentence option for non-dangerous offenders than a sentence of time in gaol. 3. "The prison system in New South Wales should be totally privatised and no longer operated by the State government." Discuss the possible advantages and disadvantages of privatising gaols. 4. Home detention is a much cheaper option for incarcerating an offender than prison. However the price the offender pays in the loss of their human rights and liberty is too high a price for the offender to pay. Discuss the possible advantages and disadvantages of home detention. 5. New Right criminological thinking requires ‘tough on crime’ policing practices and laws to be adopted and followed. How effective has the ‘tough on crime’ approach been in deterring offenders and reducing the crime rate?