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Please answer both of the following Forum Posts: Class, As identified by research regarding both traditional and online education, higher forms of learning take place when students are able to take an active part in curriculum development. Subsequently, this week the Forum posts are a bit different from those earlier weeks. Rather than me posting a series of questions, each of you will instead develop a graduate level question (i.e., not simply one which can be answered via regurgitation and no original thought), and then you will answer the very question you composed. 1: Compose a graduate level question related to the relationship/connection between social policy and capital punishment as a deterrent to criminal behavior and/or controversies associated with the insanity defense covered in class thus far. Note: In forming your question, one of the following verbs must be used: argue, interpret, assess, defend, propose, develop, analyze, or compare. Also, please note the reading while at first glance is extensive this week (roughly 300 pages), it consists of several chapters focused on this topic (i.e. criminology and its impact on social policy). 2: Fully answer the question you have created. Note: This Forum is directly connected to the following Course Learning Objective: LO3. Judge the impact of criminological theory and research on social policy LO6. Evaluate the use of capital punishment as a deterrent to criminal behavior LO9. Examine the controversies associated with the insanity defense Instructions: Only Forum post #2 must be a “minimum” of 500 words of content (does not count references and or restating a question) and only Forum post#2 must include “at least” two different and properly referenced sources, in accordance with APA 6th edition, for full credit. Again there is no minimum length or source requirement for Forum #1 this week. Now as always, within your post, please place the first Forum response (i.e., your draft question this week) on top of the second Forum (i.e., your response to the question you composed), i.e., both Forum responses should be in the same post within the Forum. Again, this is an approach that teaching research has shown to be very capable of not only including a much wider variety of topics and discussions but to also aid enhanced learning for all
