Annotated Bibliography

the annotated bibliographies have be five articles on the same topic within corrections.

• student shall locate and read five (5) peer-reviewed journal articles from the TAMUCT online library databases, related to the general topic: COURTS.

• The topic of courts are very broad – the student should identify a more specific area within each general topic and make that the focus for the annotated bibliography. I am including some examples below – these are just a few of the many areas the student could focus on

Courts (e.g., judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, juries, sentencing)

• Once the student has read the articles, he/she will summarize them, succinctly, in one page each (no more than one page, no less than ¾ of a page). Thus, each annotated bibliography should not exceed 5 pages. The student will not receive credit for articles that are not peer-reviewed. These are to be summaries, not critiques of the articles.

Reaction Essays 1page

These essays will be written in reaction to the content included in the annotated bibliographies. The reaction essays should reflect a careful consideration about what you think about what you have read and written in the annotated bibliography assignments.

The topic was rejected the annotateds needed to more along the lines of one of these topics:

Judicial decision-making

Sentencing disparities

Prosecutor discretion

Specialized courts