Extra Credit - Brubaker

Brubaker

DUE: NLT first exam
POINTS: Up to 10 
LENGTH: About 750 words (3 pages)

Check out the movie BRUBAKER (with Robert Redford)

Then:

1) Summarize the story

2) What are the conditions that the prisoners face that you consider
extreme?

3) How do you think such conditions could exist well past the middle of  the
20th century?

4) Could these conditions exist today? (why/why not?)


5) If you were to write a lecture for a criminology course, what relevance 
would you say that it had for the course

6) List 5 points that you would want your students to take from the 
book/movie

7) Does the movie advocate punishment, rehabilitation, or something else?

8) Can you identify a "correctional ideology" in the movie?

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