The explaination of Crime

1. What is “Crime”? How can we best understand it? 2. How should crime be measured and assessed? 3. Use the logic in your conceptual and operational definitions above to construct a mathematical formula for computing a county’s crime score. This will be your crime metric. It must reflect, as accurately as possible your conceptual […]

Sociology of Crime: CCJ 2007/CJ27 Assessment 1: Weekly Review of

Overview In lieu of a final exam, we have chosen to include one reading each week of the trimester for you to engage with and answer weekly guided questions. We have divided this assessment into two parts, with corresponding due dates above. The reasons for this are to allow you to receive feedback on some […]

Thinking About Crime: What are your general thoughts about why people

Write a brief (3-5 page) essay discussing your views on the causes of crime. In your essay you should address the following: 1. What are your general thoughts about why people break the law? 2. Do you think that crime is primarily caused by individual characteristics or by social factors? Be specific. 3. What events […]

Organized Crime / Gangs –mafia, motorcycle gangs, Russian mafia,

  Assignment Instructions The Outline & Annotated Bibliography Assignment is the first step towards writing your final paper. It is designed to help you to identify a topic and research question and to help you to gather appropriate resources that will be used in writing your final paper. For this assignment, you will need to […]

The Decline of Crime in the 21st Century

 You are to write a Two-Page paper following APA Format, 12 point font, double spaced. You must have at least 2 references at the end of the paper in APA format with the citations in the actual text. In the paper you are to answer the question presented below. There has been a steady decline […]

Criminal Justice: Effectiveness of crime analysis

Article Dissection: The goal of this exercise is to develop your skills for taking apart a research article. Select a research article published in a peer reviewed social science journal in the past 10 years. Prepare a smartly written report of no more than three pages, single-spaced, that attends to each of the following elements: […]

“White-collar crime and the public’s view as to the huge differences

This paper should be written in APA style. This paper should also be presented in the viewpoint of someone in the criminal justice field (AJ). No more than six (6) pages. The pages must be numbered. No running head Name and date must appear on the upper left hand side. No plagiarism No cover page […]

525 –assignment (write 2-pages) Crime and Punishment – Caning and

Visit the World Corporal Punishment Research site and look at the material in a few of the links (e.g., what’s new, Legislation). Eventually go to The World Corporal Punishment Research website (link provided in D2L) where you will read an article about judicial caning in Singapore. Write a few paragraphs describing what from the article was new […]

FAMILY, DELINQUENCY, AND CRIME

Complete article summaries for TWO of your journal articles using the template below. Article Summary Categories Article Information Author(s) Year Article Title Research Question/ Hypothesis What are they studying? What do they expect to find? How does this study add to the literature? What the research tried to do and how What methods did they […]