Before completing this project, carefully read the two articles for this week listed above (Newburn, and Integrated Health Care). Next, read the article below, and answer each part of the questions below in 3-4 full sentences per question. Read: Arrest, Release, Repeat: How police and jails are misused to respond to social problems (click the small arrows near the charts to see additional details, and be sure to check out the Recommendations section) 1. Consider Tim Newburn's discussion of the relativity of crime. Define and describe this idea. Can you think of any activites or ideas which were legal and became illegal, or which were illegal and become legal within your lifetime? How do these examples show the relativity of crime, and why do you think these changes occured? 2. Explain the concept of disproportianate policing described by Newburn, and provide and explain two examples from the reading materials. How does disproportionate policing affected targeted communities? 3. Why do Sociologists distinguish (show the difference between) crime and harm? What is useful about this idea? Should some activities which do not harm others be defined as crimes? Which, and why or why not? 3. Consider the story about Abe in Integrated Health Care. What happens when he is arrested or hospitalized, and what do the authors argue should be done differently by the hospital and criminal punishment systems? 4. Describe the main ideas in the Prison Policy Network article, and reference two statistics and some information you learned from the graphics. What do you think the authors of this article would think about Abe's story? How does Abe's story demonstrate some of the important ideas in the article?

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Before completing this project, carefully read the two articles for this week listed above (Newburn, and Integrated Health Care). Next, read the article below, and answer each part of the questions below in 3-4 full sentences per question. Read: Arrest, Release, Repeat: How police and jails are misused to respond to so