Criminal Justice - The Beat Within Volume A/B 18.05/06 2013

Introduction1

Analysis of the Cover1

Editor's note1

The beat3

Pieces of the Week/Co-Pieces of the Week3

Poem 1 - The beat response to “people want to change”3

Poem 2- The beat response to “my amazing mom”3

Poem 3- The beat response to “Buried”4

Poem 4- The beat response to “I want”5

Standouts5

Main focus5

The beat without6

Conclusive remarks8

References9

Criminal Justice - The Beat Within Volume A/B 18.05/06 2013

Introduction

This paper aims to present and analyze the beat within publication volume A/B 18.05/06 year 2013. The paper deeply and critically analyzes the cover, editorial's note, some of the writings included in pieces and co-pieces of the week, standouts and the beat without. The paper ends with some thoughts on this beat within publication as a whole and the facilitators.

Analysis of the Cover

The cover of this volume of the beat within illustrates multiple aspects related to criminal justice and social issues. The main aspects that it highlights are love and hate relationships (pp. 7, 8, 10, 18), the hard life because of association with gangs and drugs (pp. 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 14, 23, 24), being locked up behind the bars (pp.4, 5, 9, 18, 21) , good and bad times in life , lost relationships (pp.4, 5, 10, 11, 15), changes in life (pp.4, 7, 8, 10, 12), and a combination of these elements. The cover depicts that this beat within volume speaks about the good and turbulent times people faces, the relations of love and hate, the affects of drugs and gangs in people's life and the people feelings about being put behind the cell.

Editor's note

The purpose of the editorial note is to welcome the new participants of the beat within as well as to introduce the topics for the current publication of the beat within. The editorial note also aims to share a thoughtful note by Shreya. The note addresses the opportunity that beat within provides to the incarcerated youth (Annie E. Casey foundation, n.d.) who spent their time in prison. The beat within provides them an opportunity to communicate their feelings and thoughts. The note addresses that incarcerated children needs an opportunity to express their feelings. It helps the readers to understand those students and children. It helps the leader to understand the feelings of those incarcerated youth. Moreover, it facilitates the readers to perceive and view their own lives from a different perspective. It tells the readers that language is not only about transferring the words or information that one knows. It is about the way feelings are translated into words to communicate what is in the heart.

The editorial note assigns the beat within participants following topics:

To write about the favorite book.

To respond about the hard life that young people undergo by joining gangs and drug selling and usage.

To account the experience or wish of doing volunteering work

To describe the perspective about the people who wish to bring change but do not strive to do so.

To describe a job or career that can make this world a better ...