Critical reflection assignments are those in which you connect key ideas and
concepts from the chapters, reflect on their importance to the theory, research, or practice of juvenile justice, their relevance for specific actors in the juvenile justice system, and make connections to the real world outside of the classroom.
Analyze and evaluate taken for granted knowledge about crime
and justice and think through the theoretical or policy implications of each authors work. These assignments will require students to apply and synthesize information rather than summarize information, and students are encouraged to use these exercises as opportunities to expand their understanding of the information in the
readings.
1. What are the most important ideas from these readings/chapters? Why are they the most important? How could they be elaborated more thoroughly in future research?
2. Why is this material relevant to the study of juvenile justice? How do we emphasize the greatest points of importance from the reading to relevant groups (e.g. teachers or politicians)?
3. How would we take what we have learned in this reading/chapter and apply it to the real world? What problems would we have with implementation?
4. How can this concept cut across situations and be helpful in affecting positive social change in relation to an existing social problem (e.g. substance use)? Would that effect be differential, based on things like urbanity vs. rurality? What about for adolescents vs. adults?
You can pick 2 or more of those questions and answer and explain in great detail from chapters 2 and 3.
I have uploaded chapters 2 and 3