Write a research paper that addresses one of the following options:Accept Alexanders invitation (15-16) to produce additional scholarship focused on mass incarceration and other communities vulnerable to mass incarceration (women, Latinos, immigrants, etc.). If you select this option, make sure that your essay does not simply report on this issue. Use Alexanders text as an example of how to both provide information regarding the issue and make an argument.Write an essay that proposes an alternative to (mass) incarceration. There are many alternatives to (mass) incarceration. They include but are not limited to restorative justice, community-based justice, sentencing circles, counseling, mediation, interventions, rehabilitation, restitution, resolution, community service, drug courts, mental health courts, prison abolition, etc. Your essay should argue for an alternative to mass incarceration. Note: This option does NOT require you to argue against the practice of imprisonment unless that is what you wish to argue. Focus on a particular aspect of Alexanders text that you wish to research, explore, and discuss more fully. Please note that the subject of a paper focused in this way should be a particular topic touched on by Alexander. The subject is not Alexanders argument about this particular topic. For example, if you want to make an argument for or against stop and frisk laws, you would not simply restate Alexanders argument in place of making your own argument. Additionally, if you disagree with Alexander on stop and frisk, you would not frame this paper as a response to Alexanders argument. That being said, you could use Alexanders research and writing to support your own original argument, or you could use Alexanders research and writing as counterargument. You are not required to use Alexanders writing in your final paper.
