Each student will prepare a paper written in APA style that has eight to ten pages of text.
•Select any crime problem or type of crime, and after supplying an overview of the issue, apply criminological theories that tend to explain the causes of the criminal activity.
• References should include a balance of journal articles, text books, and current popular literature.
• An example of a paper might include an overview of recent riots with a criminological explanation that the crime is so because people in authority are abusing their power. This might be explained through the application of Conflict Theory. A more simplistic approach could be that according to Classical Theory, people are making a free choice to riot and break the law.
