Source Annotations

1. Chuck Dederich, Grover Sales, John Maher of Delancey Street, W.W. Norton & Company Inc. New York, 1976
I like this book as it was writing by a man who went through a lot of rehabilitation because of his disease of alcohol and drug addiction. He turned his life around and became a very successful man. He has a lot of very well mad comments in his book and I have herd them over and over again. Like 10% of the offenders will take up 90% of the work, that they are never going make it.

2. "Drug court." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 29 Mar 2009, 17:56 UTC. 29 Mar 2009
This is a reference page that I found that gives some very good statistics to back up my argument that the drug court program is better that regular probation.

3. Listwan, Shelley Johnson Ph.D., Latessa, Edward J. Ph.D. The Kootenai and Ada County Drug Courts:Outcome Evaluation Findings, July 2005.
This article has a lot of information on the Idaho drug court and when they were started and also this gives a brief example of how successful they were over 6 years ago as compared to the statistics now days. It is written by the project director and principal investigator for the Center for Criminal Justice Research. They are both Ph.d’s.

4. National Association of Drug Court Professionals, web
This site has all the information I could want on drug court and there programs, from the training involved to the research on how and where they have been successful. To what they are currently doing that is new and other links that are related to this program.

5. Officer One. Personal interview March 10, 2009 and email responses March 22-28, 2009
I will be using this mans ideas and his quotes at they go hand in hand with the one previously mentioned and also he works with drug court and probation and parolee. So he has an insight on both sides of the fence so to speak. Also I find taat he seems to be kind of the leader in this group of men working the probation side of drug court.

6. Officer Two. Personal interview March 10, 2009 and email responses March 22-28, 2009
This man seems to have a very good insight to the workings of probation as far as who needs the most attention and who can be left alone and trusted to do the right thing so to speak. He seems to have the knack or experience of how to read people and trust or not to trust in what they are telling him. There seems to be a lot of reading peoples body language going on here.

7. Officer Three. Personal interview March 10, 2009 and email responses March 22-28, 2009
He has the most information on the use of tracking devices and how and when they are going to be used. It would be nice to be able to track everyone who is in trouble but there is a little more to it then just clamping it on to a person’s ankle and then sitting back and watching them. There seems to be a legal reason that they don’t do it to just anyone. There has to be a reason like hurting them selves or someone else. Then there has to be Judge’s order also. This will come with recommendations from all of the other people involved like counselors, probation officers, and fellow piers.

8. Patterson Smith, John Augustus, the first probation officer, Montclair, New Jersey, National Probation Association, 1939
This is a book about the man who started it all. I truly loved this book and the accountings of this man and what he spent the last ten years of his life doing. HE documented all his cases and checked up on the people whom he represented and most of them did very well for them selves after John helped them. He also interviewed all of them and used his best judgments to pick out people who had a very good chance of cleaning up there act and going straight. This is a practice that is still used very much in the drug court program. They call it an intake interview.

9. State List of all Drug Courts. BJA Drug Court Clearinghouse. American University. Feburary 11th 2009
This has a listing of all the drug court programs up to date and how many of them are being planned too. There are 23 counties that have drug courts in Idaho and 37 branches off them. Like juvenile and mental health courts. There using the same ideas that they started with from drug court and branching them off from there.

10. Todd R. Clear, Places not Cases?: Re-thinking the Probation Focus1, The Howard Journal Vol 44 No 2. May 2005 ISSN 0265-5527, pp. 172–184.
This makes reference to John Augustus as being the first probation officer and tell a little about his story. This is where I got the idea of looking him up here at the library. Also this article has a lot of good information on the case work that is involved with any one probation officer and how his or her case work load can have a specific relationship to how mush attention can be given to any one client of offender. That this can have a big effect on the success rates for those offenders too. Goes on to give some good statistics form other sources.

reading questions

1. showed the writer had spent alot of time doing research in the library but had very little first hand research it seemed like. the writer did find the problems witht the system offer solutions and ideas to fix it.
2. the headings gave the reader a heads up that the reading was going to be changing directions so the reader didn't get lost
3.the writer talked about how great the head start program is and all of it's shortcomings and how it was underserving those who needed it but it really seemed like his only solution to the problem was to just throw money at the problem until it goes away rather than maybe looking at the effiency of how the money was being handled and seeing if maybe there was more accountability as to how money was spent and things were run that the problem could be solved with out needing so much money

questions for unit 3

after thinking about some of the ideas that my group brought up during our writing workshop. i thought up a few questions for my next paper but i'm still having a hard time deciding what i want to do and what is researchable. one thing that i really keep thinking about is why do people think of lawyers the way that they do? theyre perfectly nice and very intelligent people and i think maybe the point to argue is against the perception that people have about lawyers and show that they're aren't what they are often portrayed as in popular culture

response to questions

3. Some of the evidence that is presented in this is based off of personal observations and other evidence is from research that the person has done. The evidence from the actual person that has experienced the event is a little more convincing then the other that is just stating the facts that some researcher has preformed.

4. The section headings provide a good separation of information and allows the reader to associate the information being stated with a specific meanings. These section headings also allow the the reader to look at specific information and if they want to know about just one area then the reader can read just that specific area and not have to read the entire paper.

1. In the essay "Who Deserves a Head Start" the write presents some interesting fact that are supported with great statistics. But of me the whole idea of the paper got lost in the amount of time it too the write to make its point clear. I also liked the graph that was added to the paper to break it up and to add to the validity of the papers point.
In the Essay "Pursuing an Educated Mind" the paper is shorter and to the point. This essay could have used some visual aides to support the information, but compared to the other essay this one was a lot easier to follow and it did not seem like the too much information was being presented.

Exp. 1 Unit 3

I actually got a lot of info from the groups we got in to discuss our papers and what maybe to focus on more. The group gave me a lot of impute as to where I needed improvement and maybe needed to put a little more focus. There were several questions that arouse in my head as to what I can do to gain more knowledge of my community. One big question that I kept going over was that of the use of force. It’s been something that has bothered me and is misunderstood by almost everyone. When an officer uses force there is always going to be someone that is going to complain about it being too much. So what do they do, they go and tell all their friends that they saw a “pig” tackle down a kid and chuff him. Now don’t get me wrong I do feel that there should be a good check and balance system with everything. There are times that they do need us force and times when there shouldn’t be as much force used. So I guess the question that I want to really look into and talk about is, what is the use of force and when does it become excessive? I feel there is a lot to learn about it. I feel there is going to be a good amount of information to find with it. It’s an issue that, at times, can become very heated. Most people feel officers use way too much force. Think about it like this. If your mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, or even friends life is on the line would you rather the officers sit back and hope they are going to be ok, or would you rather the officer’s use a little bit of force to ensure that they are going to be able to hug you again.

Reading response

Pursuing and educated mind:
3) The essay presented a great deal of evidence that the writer had found. There was plenty of evidence showing the different ways that language is being taught in the U.S. The writer goes into great detail about how hard it could be for some students to learn English and also do well in school too.
4) The purpose of the section headings was to let the reader know a switch in direction. If it was just paragraph after paragraph a reader might be little lost as to which direction she was trying to go and what point she was trying to make.
Head Start
1) So the thing that I noticed about the head start essay is that at the end he gives his good opinion as to “What Needs to Happen” It is what his last section is about. That to me was an effect tool. In Educated Mind, she doesn’t give a good opinion as to what she felt should be done to better the situation.

Question 1

1. Well, In the essay: Who deserves a head start? I think that a lot of the facts like how much money is going where, and how helpful the government is with the head start program is effective. But I feel like this essay just drug on for one to many pages. It could have been easily condensed.
In the "Pursuing the Educated Mind" I thought the most effective part was the suggestions for increased effectivness. For me it's nice to give example from Erin's point of view on how she thinks that the community could help by funding and volunteering.

Questions 3 and 4

3. The main part of evidence that is presented is some statistics about the second grade reading and mathe score being much higher after leaning a second language. Also I think the author has good, reliable sources that back up her information.
4. I think that the purpose of the headings are just to stay organized throughout her argument.

Exploration 1 unit 3

Inquires that were brought up in class with my team was they wanted more information about the ankle bracelets. How they worked? What other things that they could monitor with their use? It seems to be something I could research. It possibly could have a lot of pros and cons or agencies that favor them and some that would oppose them.
Another question was about judging people for how they look and maybe how much money they have. This would seem to be a very hard topic to work with, with lots of opinions and not too much real data to back it up.
The other thing that I didn’t get to touch on much was the training that PO’s will get as compared to a regular police officer. Would be a good comparison essay but to argue one of them would seem futile as they both are much needed and both serve the community very nicely.
The only other thing that was fascinating to me was the history of John Augustus. How he started the probation process from nothing. Would like to argue about that or maybe that probation has its place and serves a very important rule in the rehabilitation of some criminals. That without them we would be overrun by prisons and costs of taking care of them all. This is also a very goes topic that I my consider taking. It would work well with my investigations I have already done.
So it seems that I would like to write about the probation officers job and how it effects the rehabilitation of criminals, which is one of the primary reasons John started taking on drunkards so very long ago. Research would be found in statistics of people who re-offend after jail as opposed to how many re-offend after probation. How much time and money is spent on an offender while in jail as opposed to being on probation. I could also incorporate the ankle bracelet in as a part of the argument for Probation officers, especially the drug court ones. This is very important to me as they affect a group of people that I have been a part of for years. The group is drug court and they help so many people change their lives around and get out of drugs and alcohol that have ruined their lives completely, in most cases.

Questions for Unit Three

3 What kinds of evidence does this essay present?
Multiple resources from books and papers that people have wrote about particular aspects of this essay. I have never really read an essay like this to tell you the truth. Citations are only what they seem to be I guess. They could be merely made up or quoted from some quack who doesn’t know his head from a bowling ball. Nut having the information there if I so choose I can look it up myself and make a decision myself. Personally I tried to look up the online transcript “double talk” and didn’t find anything there. But I looked up Crawford James, bilingual education and found that it was a true form of research and seems to be creditable. Reading it the first time I truly didn’t catch it all as is the case with me. I read it the second time with the intent to find something and it seems that with a little reference here and there it sure does help make a point that the author (Elmore) is trying to make.

4 Notice Elmore’s section heading? What purpose do they serve?
Seems they have a grand purpose of explaining the paragraphs to follow. Breaking them away from the previous lines, and generally separating the whole paper up into more manageable augments.

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Compare both essays?
Well I felt that the first essay was a little more to the point as it was talking about “bilingual education” I talked about how it effects youth in school that can’t comprehend what’s going on because they do not understand the language. To teaching those in their native language will keep them learning until they can grasp the change over from one language to another. They will still be learning the whole time not trying to catch up as it were to everyone else after they learn a new language. Seems to be a good argument.

The second essay was full of statistics and numbers and references to people living better lives because they went to head start. While I could see that education is a very important aspect of growing up it seems to be pushing the envelope a bit. Like making judgments that children without the extra education afforded by head start will be more likely to commit crimes and marry out of wed lock and are labeled at-risk children. That with head start they will became respectable people in the community and starting off on the right track early will keep them out of jail. Seems to be a very bold essay and it is more about what it might cost to send every child to head start or preschool, compared to what it will cost later down the road when they have family troubles, institutions, legal issues, and much more. Seems to put a lot of importance into the head start program.

Exploration 2

My second observation, which is off the first set of notes I gathered, will be another look into the same questions and interview/observation I did previously. The reason I am doing this off the same set of notes are I have not been able to get any response from the drug court P.O.s up to this time. I have left numerous messages with their office and cell phones and have not gotten any calls back as of yet. I also called Ada county probation and parole to see if there was any way I could get into an interview with anyone else. I talked to the secretary and she said that they are very busy and that I could leave a message for them. That was what I did and haven’t heard back from them as of yet. I also tried the canyon county with the same results.
So up to this point in time I am looking back with some more effort to get any more ideas from the only interaction I have with my community. So with what I have found is that they are truly very busy people or should I say P.O.’s. Looking into their job descriptions and what officer one had told me was that they do a lot of different jobs for each and every client. From being a social worker for clients that need help with their children and family’s to protection services to help with domestic violence and protection orders, to helping them find employment and doing back ground checks on people they what to hang out with or maybe even start dating. They are like a very over protective parent to each client they have. Some are very nurturing and nice and gentle while others may be like a stern almost military like parent that wants their client to follow all the rules and jump when they are told to do so. Either way the offender will most likely not like following the rules at first as they are not used to it. Officer two told me that “they are all very predictable at first,” meaning that all the clients will act the same at first by fighting the system and not following the rules.

Exploration 2

Danielle Valentine
Exploration 2

This round of observation was a lot like the last one. It was mainly a ride alone, but Kevin took me to his officer because he hadn’t gotten anything to eat that day so we went there. And I got to meet a few of his co-workers, which were pretty cool. While I was there they made a lot of jokes and made fun of each other, which was really funny. After a while after asking me a couple of questions about what I was doing they started making jokes about me, which made me feel a little more welcome in their office.
After that Kevin and I left with Huck, and when we got back out to the car Kevin showed me his huge gun that he has in the back of his car. I asked if it was loaded, and he looked at me funny and then I felt stupid for asking… One thing that did surprise me was where the homeless shelter was. I drive past it all the time and I didn’t know it was where it was. Also, I can’t really remember where his officer was, but I remember that It was in a part of town that I would have guessed. The building kind of looked like old house and you can’t tell it’s a police office if you didn’t see the cop cars in the back.
I was hoping to get to see some action that day but nothing really happens during the day, Kevin told me that in the future if I want to go on another ride alone that all I had to do was ask and it might be at night, when all the dealers get busted. I think I’m going to email him my paper when I’m done with it because he seemed pretty interested in the project I was doing. Kevin is a pretty cool guy. He was down for doing anything I wanted, well, for the most part. While we were waiting in his car for something to happened down the road, that was when I pulled out my interview questions. He was very helpful and answered all of my questions with great detail. Most of his answers answered some of my other questions. So that was a big help. This learning experience has been so much fun. I have had a blast getting to know all of the people in this community and it has given me a better opinion on Police officers and what they do.

Latteral move

I talked to a Man that is in drug court, will call him Dave. Dave says he has seen four different Po's during the time he has had in drug court. he also says that some of them he doesn't like much because they have their nose stuck in the air wit a Holy er then tho attitude! they are noisy and disrespect him and his family. Dave also says that ther are two that are very nice and like to talk to him. They don't disrespect him in his house when the wife and kids are around or sleeping and keep it down so as not to wake anybody. They don't treat him like a herd animal and show some interest in how he is doing. He doesn't see them as much as he used to back when He first got into drug court. they came around about once a week then and now it's about once a month.

One source I used was I asked a police officer I already new, if he new anyone that could help me, and he got me in contact with the person I'm going to observe tomorrow. Kevin Holtry Is the person I'm going to go interview/observe.