Any topic (writer’s choice)

Your role is to act as a motivated speaker to discuss the impact of crimes of the powerful and how our own choices facilitate these harms and crimes. Remember, you should be using your authentic voice and use your own voice as applicable when discussing your reflections.

Audience:

You will be addressing this assignment not only to me but to an unfamiliar audience. This may include an activist group, a group of other students, or at a community event.

Format:

This assignment should be a 4-6 page essay (plus any references drawn on), double spaced, Time New Roman, 12 font with 1 inch margins.

Assignment:

Draw from the accumulation of knowledge you have gained through our readings and assignments during this course to provide an intellectual critique discussing your own role in facilitating crimes of the powerful. Do not restate what we covered in the course, this is a reflection of your role in the reproduction of COPs (e.g., consumerism). (*Hint take a look at your belongings, the food you purchase, where you shop, the clothes and shoes you own, the technology you own and use to see your role).

Provide specific examples, grounded in our course readings and assignments, of your own role in the facilitation of crimes of the powerful.
Reflect on how our everyday choices may problematize efforts to control or reduce crimes of the powerful.
Reflect on how the knowledge you have gained from this course has or has not changed your everyday life choices in relation to crimes of the powerful.