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Final Project: Leveraging Strengths of Multiculturalism and Diversity for Community Benefit

Course outcome addressed in this Assignment:

• PA260-3: Analyze constitutional protections in criminal law.

General Education Literacy Outcomes:

• GEL-3.5: Apply scientific inquiry to support explanations that are empirically based.

Professional Competency Outcome:

• PC 4.1: Leverage the strengths of multiculturalism and diversity for the benefit of the organization and community.

Instructions

Multiculturalism and diversity are at the heart of the American experience and reflect the demographics of our country. Our celebration of many different ethnic and racial groups, however, has been a subject of controversy and growth for many years when dealing with crime and punishment. For your Final Project, you are asked to locate a case, newsworthy event or topic that has impacted the development of our country’s laws relating to diversity/multiculturalism and crime and punishment. For example, you could discuss how states have developed juvenile diversion programs to help at-risk Black and Hispanic youth stay out of jail and how these programs benefit society.

Another example relates to challenges for law enforcement in enforcing criminal laws in multicultural communities and whether the methods used there are working. In preparing your paper, you should conduct an investigation online and collect valid evidence from a variety of sources to develop a valid explanation from the data you found in support of your event, topic or case, and communicate and defend those conclusions in your paper.

Source: Juvenile Diversion Programs (2016). Crime solutions.gov. National Institute of Justice. Retrieved from https://www.crimesolutions.gov/PracticeDetails.aspx?ID=37

Source: Shusta, R., Levine, D., Wong, H. and Harris, P. (2005). Multicultural law enforcement: strategies for peacekeeping in a diverse society, 3rd ed. Prentice-Hall. Retrieved from http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/4173/4273671/Ch01.pdf

This week: Submit your Final Project to the Unit 9: Final Project Dropbox basket.

Your analysis should include the following:

• A brief summary of the facts of the event, topic or case
• Explanation of the legal issues relevant to criminal law, diversity and multiculturalism
• Analysis of the state or court’s position and reasoning
• Analysis of how states leveraged multiculturalism and diversity for the benefit of the community
• Evaluation of the impact of this event on the development of society and criminal law

Assignment 2

you will compose a 500-word essay comparing Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations?’ article with one other political scientist and/or academic who has written a response to Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations?’ article.

Within the introduction to Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington’s 1993, seminal political science article, ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’, the author noted,

World politics is entering a new phase and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate visions of what it will be, the end of history, the return of traditional rivalries between nation-states, and the decline of the nation-state from the conflicting pulls of tribalism and globalism, among others. Each of these visions catches aspects of the emerging reality. Yet they all miss a crucial, indeed a central, aspect of what global politics is likely to be in the coming years.

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation-states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future. (Huntington, 1993)

Huntington’s full article can be found here. Since Huntington’s article was published in 1993 many political scientists and/or academic have written in response to Huntington’s thesis – either agreeing or disagreeing with the Harvard professor’s ideas.

However, since the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. soil, Huntington’s thesis has renewed academic discourse.

Reference

Huntington, S. P. (1993). The Clash of Civilizations?. Foreign Affairs, 72(3), 22.

Within a 500 word essay please include

• An introduction.
• Provide a brief summary of Huntington’s thesis.
• Compare and contrast Huntington’s arguments with one other political scientist and/or academic.
  • You will find a voluminous list of academic articles within Kaplan’s online library. A keyword search for ‘clash of civilizations’ is an excellent starting place.
• Support your answer(s) with information obtained from the text and with Huntington’s and the other political scientist and/or academic’s articles.
• How do you understand these two, competing or aligned articles within America’s war on terror?
• A conclusion.
• Correct grammar and syntax.
• APA Format.

The Assignment should be at least 500 words and must use and cite the text and primary documents as sources. Cite the work internally and in full reference at the end, following APA style guidelines. Citation is important to build the definitions, demonstrate your research, and to make it clear which ideas are yours and which are from the source.

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