Explain to your colleagues how the multiple perspective on punishment offered in this module are useful for helping to achieve outcomes of justice through punishment in the CJ system. Humanitarian? Punishment as expression of societal norms? Paternalistic? Again, you may need to anchor this consideration with a short consideration of the purpose of punishment (a la Aristotle) before you argue for how these perspectives can help to achieve that.

-Analyze how one of your colleagues has explained it.

-Describe the merits and shortcomings of your colleague's argument and how it helps us to reconsider the purpose of punishment.

Police academy training for new recruits can vary, though the typical amount of hours of training per subject for academies is found in the chart below. Review the chart, and answer the discussion questions below.

Discussion Questions:

1. If you were in charge of modifying the a police academy training program above and had to stay within a total of 200 training hours to work with, what would you change? Would you add or subtract any hours from the subjects above? Would you add any subjects?

2. Explain your reasoning to your changes above.