Write an informative summary of the book Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma by Michael Tonry (2012); include the author, title of the work, and publication date.
PART 1: A SUMMARY OF THE WORK (2 pages double-spaced)
To develop the first part of your paper, do the following:
• Write an informative summary of the book Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma
by Michael Tonry (2012); include the author, title of the work, and publication date.
• Condense the content of the work by highlighting its main points and key supporting points.
• You can use a few direct quotations from the work to illustrate important ideas.
• Summarize the material so that the reader gets a general sense of all key aspects of the
arguments and conclusions.
• Also, keep the summary objective and factual. Do not include in the first part of the paper
your personal reaction to the work; your subjective impression will form the basis of the
third part of your paper.
PART 2: YOUR RESPONSE TO THE WORK (2-3 pages double-spaced)
To write the second part of your paper, respond to two of the following three questions:
• Given what you read, reviewed, and discussed in the class so far: (1) what social functions
does punishment perform? (2) How do penal institutions contribute to social order, or to
state power, or to class domination, or to the cultural reproduction of society? (3) What are
punishment’s unintended social effects, its functional failures, and its wider social costs?
• Use the book and lectures to support your argument.
PART 3: YOUR REACTION TO THE WORK (1 page double-spaced)
To write the third part of the paper, write a reaction to the material and to your responses from
part two. Consider responding to some of the following questions:
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• How is the work related to problems in our present-day world?
• How is the material related to your life, experiences, feelings, and ideas?
• Did the work increase your understanding of a particular issue? Did it change your
perspective in any way?
• Evaluate the merit of the work: the importance of its points, its accuracy, completeness,
organization, and so on
