Make sure you develop a detailed outline as you review the literature and before start writing. That outline should develop main topic headings and subheadings.
For example: a early section of the paper should address suicide as a problem. You are dealing with a very specific type of suicide: is it different than others and why? We know suicide is a serious problem, why is it a problem in a juvenile correctional facility.
Why due to sexual assault within the facility what about other types of assault?
This problem can be supported with a table on the number of juveniles who attempt vs successfully complete suicide, by several years. And the different types of suicides within the facilities.
As you read the literature you will be able to narrow down the topics to include.
Term Paper (25 % of final grade) will be your case to the governor of your home state regarding the following topics: I. the current state of juvenile offending in your state (list your state and select a juvenile crime; clearly state why that delinquent act is a problem in your state (use statistics for the crime using the UCR compare at least 5 years statistics, use at least two newspaper reports from the selected state and about the selected crime/delinquent act); II. Tell the governor how things about the crime/delinquent act have changed in your state and/or neighborhood from a personal point of view: for example you can address your life as a teen versus how things look now. This section makes the selected problem personal: you can describe how you were raised (and experienced) and address changes in your neighborhood/state, the school, etc. and connect your personal to the general (the selected crime/delinquent act as it has changed over time). III. the best explanation of that delinquency (use one of the theories on the textbook; link the theoretical assumptions and the problem as you have described it to the Governor and the statistics used in I & II above; and, IV Conclusion: your recommendations for policy and practice as a result. Include any empirical evidence to support your points. Your topic must be pre-approved by the instructor.
The paper should be up to 8 pages in length or 2,000 words (includes references). That means you must give about equal writing time to all the topics above.
The paper is to be analytical, with an emphasis on integrating the readings and outside sources into a cogent discussion on some relevant issue that can be theoretically addressed using the theories on the textbook (a criminal/juvenile justice problem).
You paper must clearly be divided into the above described 4 sections. These will be the basis of the grading.
Papers should be formatted according to the American Psychological Association Manual Writing Guidelines which are most comprehensively covered in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 6th. Ed., although condensed and simplified versions of the APA formatting a referencing requirements may be found on-line and in other writing manuals. Deadlines for Topic Selection, Introduction and abstract and final research paper upload deadlines: 1 MARCH 2022 BY 1150PM
PS. I live in Texas.
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