Extra Credit - Shawshank Redemption

Shawshank Redemption

DUE: NLT Tues, March 30 
POINTS: Up to 10 
LENGTH: About 750 words (3 pages)

Check out the movie Shawshank Redemption

Then:

1) Summarize the story

2) Compared to Stateville or other prisons, how realistic do you think
it is?

3) Is it "just a story," or is there a message about prisons that you
could use in a class?

4) Sometimes, the point of a movie isn't always what it seems to be about.
What do you think this movie is "really about?"

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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