criminal event
Paper details:
For your Term Paper, you are to pick two specific theories and use these theories to explain a real-world criminal event or activity. You are to find some criminal event from an online search and you must provide your professor with the website and specific address for the online article that discusses this event or activity. The website for your chosen event or activity must be submitted to the instructor by the beginning of week four so that it can be verified by the professor by the close of that week. This event can be discussed in any online news or academic source (for example, an online news story, discussion in an online professional journal, an academic journal that is online, and so forth). Upon selecting your topic event or activity, you will then choose two specific theories (for example, Social Learning Theory by Ronald Akers) to explain 3 specific issues. The issues to be explained by the theories are as follows: Why the specific criminal event or activity that you chose occurred, How each theory can be used to predict and prevent the likelihood of a similar crime occurring in the future, both nationally and globally, and Suggestions that each theory would probably give on how to process this offender (or group of offenders) through the criminal justice system (i.e., death penalty, life sentence, community supervision, treatment orientation or punitive orientation, and so on). all internal citation of outside sources plus the listing of all references should also adhere to APA format. All text pages should be double-spaced and in 12 point font. Further, your Term Paper should consist of an Introduction, a Main Body, and a Conclusion. The Introduction Section should be 3–5 pages. The Main Body should consist of three specific sections. The first section should be entitled “Etiology,” the second section should be entitled “Prediction and Prevention,” and the third section should be entitled “Recommended Criminal Justice Responses.” Each of these sections should be from 3–5 pages in length. This should then be followed by the Conclusion section of roughly 2–3 pages that clearly refines the connection between your chosen theories and your chosen criminal event or criminal activity.