Annotated Bibliography for [your topic here]

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Annotated Bibliography for [Your Title Here]

To start your Annotated Bibliography, write an introductory paragraph to gain the attention of your reader and set the context for your research. Start with the attention-grabbing idea, such as an anecdote or fact about your topic. Provide your working thesis statement that answers your research question and provides the direction of your argument.  The annotated bibliography will include two annotated references and is to include a summary paragraph that summarizes the source and the author’s main points and relevance to your research, and the credibility, reliability and timeliness of the source material.  Lastly, it will include how you intend to use information from each article in your next assignment.

Put your first alphabetical reference here in correct MLA format. Consult the Learning Object in Course Information or Use Easybib.com, which is a tool that will CREATE the references for you.

Start the summary by stating the main points of the essay/article with which you DISAGREE here. Provide a high-level summary of the author’s main points and assess the credibility, reliability, and timeliness of the source.

Start your assessment here: Next add your comment. How will you use the source? Does it define or explain the problem or issue? Contrast your ideas. How are they in OPPOSITION to this essay/article. When you write your assignment next week, in which section could you include this source? Avoid obvious ideas such as “this article was interesting and will be used in my assignment” or “this source will help me prove my ideas.” Instead, be specific about where this source will be used and which ideas it will help to prove. Do not copy and paste anything; instead, summarize ideas in your words. Explain specifically the type of support that the source will provide and where it can be used in your project  Before you turn in the assignment, select the Review tab from the MS Word toolbar above and click on Spelling & Grammar.

Put your second alphabetical reference here Put your first alphabetical reference here in correct MLA format. Consult the Learning Object in Course Information or Use Easybib.com, which is a tool that will CREATE the references for you.

Start the summary by stating the main points of the essay/article with which you  AGREE here. Provide a high-level summary of the author’s main points and assess the credibility, reliability, and timeliness of the source.

Start your assessment here: Next add your comment. How will you use the source? Does it define or explain the problem or issue? Compare your ideas. How are they in AGREEMENT with  this essay/article. When you write your assignment next week, in which section could include this source? Avoid obvious ideas such as “this article was interesting and will be used in my assignment” or “this source will help me prove my ideas.” Instead, be specific about where this source will be used and which ideas it will help to prove. Do not copy and paste anything; instead, summarize ideas in your words. Explain specifically the type of support that the source will provide and where it can be used in your project   Before you turn in the assignment, select the Review tab from the MS Word toolbar above and click on Spelling & Grammar.

Annotated Bibliography for Youth Incarcerated in Adult Prisons

Angelique Quinones

Berkeley College

Annotated Bibliography for Youth Incarcerated in Adult prisons

Many states believe that charging our nations youth as an adult, rather than placing them in a juvenile detention center, or receiving outside treatment is the best option. Juvenile delinquints who are charged and placed in adult facilities are at a higher risk of being sexually assaulted by another inmate, than an inmate who is an adult. Statistics show that juveniles who are incarcerated in an adult facilitiy are 36% more likely to commit suicide than if they were to be placed in a juvenile detention center. Also, many juveniles who are sentenced to an adult facility have a lack in education because they are too young to partake in the General Education Diploma (GED) program in the facility since they are younger than 18, which inhabits them from obtaining an education while in prison.

Backstrom, James C. “The Criminal Justice System Should Treat Some Juveniles as Adults.”         Juvenile Crime. Ed. Louise I. Gerdes. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2012. Opposing Viewpoints.    Rpt. of “Adult Prosecution Is Warranted in Certain Cases.” Www.co.dakota.mn.us. N.p.:          n.p., 2008. N. pag. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 13 Aug. 2016.

Not all juveniles should be in adult facilities, but some of them should be. Many gang affiliated youth commit murders, traffic drugs, weapons, commit robberies, and sometimes they get nothing but a juvenile detention center til the age of 21, and they’re record is clean as an adult. However, youth with many minor offenses should also be sentenced as an adult, because they constantly get treated as a minor, and once they’re released from a juvenile detention center, or finish their probation they go right back to doing what they were doing before, they need to learn the consequences of their actions.

Some Juveniles should be treated as adults, when they commit crimes such as murder, manslaughter, and robbery. Some crimes which permit a life sentence, or 10 plus years, a juvenile should face trial for. Not every juvenile should see the inside of an adult facility, but some should. Some need to realize what their actions are going to cause when they grow up, and maybe it will help them realize that the path that they are walking on isn’t the path they want to be be on.

“Placing Juveniles in the Adult Criminal Justice System Is Counterproductive.” Juvenile Crime.    Ed. Louise I. Gerdes. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2012. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. of “Jailing             Juveniles: The Dangers of Incarcerating Youth in Adult Jails in America.”         Www.campaignforyouthjustice.org. N.p.: n.p., 2007. N. pag. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 13 Aug. 2016.

It is extremely difficult to keep our youth safe in an adult facility. Between 13% and 26% of inmate-on-inmate sexual abusze took place with an inmate who was under the age of 18, which is astounding since less than 1% of our prisons population are juvenile offenders. Often times, officials in an adult facility will place the juvenile in solitary confindment for their own protection, leaving them locked up in a room for 23 hours a day, with no sights of actual sunlight. This leads for more juveniles to suffer from anxiety, from mental disorders, as well as increases the chance of suiide. Juveniles are 19 times more likely to commit suicide then those who aren’t incarcerated, and 36 times more likely than the youth in juvenile detention centers.

This source shows that incarcerating our youth in adult facility causes more harm than good. Our youth needs attention, they need help, not to be locked up with adult criminal serving 25 to life. By locking them up with adult criminals we are exposing them to more then they need to see, we’re putting them at risk of sexual abuse, and suicide all for what? To teach a lesson. Our youth needs treatment, they need help in order to better themselves, be in groups with offenders their own age, getting an education.