Instruction
Scholarly Book Review – The final component of this course is for you to read and review:
Hatton, Erin. 2021. Labor and Punishment: Work in and Out of Prison. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520305342
For this assignment, you must cite at least five peer-reviewed articles, not books, in your review. Your scholarly book review must be between 2,250 to 2,700 words. For this assignment, you need to do more than merely provide a synopsis of the book. Rather, provide a scholarly analysis of the book and explain what, if anything, it contributes to our understanding of the criminal justice system. Important: Please do not quote any sources verbatim for such a short assignment. Instead, paraphrase the information in your own words and cite the source. And, be sure you cite at least five peer-reviewed journal articles in your book review essay. The articles may not be any older, than say, 2015. Please do not cite books. Students who do a particularly good job with this assignment will be encouraged to submit their work to a scholarly journal. Scholarly publications are often very helpful in gaining admittance to Ph.D. programs. Doing this assignment might also provide you with an opportunity down the road to demonstrate to your supervisors at work that you have an ability to synthesize information into an interesting, evocative report. Also, scholarly book reviews enhance one’s visibility as a burgeoning scholar, and make a contribution to the field of criminal justice, and provide invaluable opportunities for personal growth. The instructor will provide everyone with an example of a scholarly book at the beginning of the course. Several Lamar University graduate students have published book review essays they have written in my courses in academic journals.
All scholarly book reviews will be submitted either by the student or the instructor to Safe for originality in order to ensure that there is not any forms of plagiarism, either deliberate or accidental. It must be evident that all papers are original works. If a Safe report reveals any evidence of plagiarism, the paper will not be graded and will be assigned a "zero." Students should visit with the instructor before the assignment is due if they have any questions about this.
Also, if a student fails to cite at least five peer-reviewed journal articles and include these in the references at the end of the book review, it will incur an automatic penalty of twenty points.
Please follow the writing rubric in Appendix 1 to understand how you are required to write the paper.