Article Review Instructions

The focus of this course is on the management, administration, and/or leadership aspects of criminal justice organizations. The purpose of the Article Review assignment is to provide you with experience in the identification, location, and analysis of scholarly-quality information relating to the criminal justice field.

For your Article Review assignment, you will research and select a peer-reviewed, scholarly-quality article from a quality web-based resource. That article will discuss a criminal justice management, administration, or leadership topic. You may address any general administration, management, or leadership subtopic that you find generally addressed in the Peak text. This leaves the selection of the general topic of the article up to you. However, the major focus of that article must be on a relevant justice management, administration, or leadership issue. As an example, if you have an interest in the corrections area of the general criminal justice field, you may focus your efforts on corrections. However, the article that you review must be on a management related topic that is within the general scope of the corrections field. Granting you the discretion to pick a specific subject area to research is not an open invitation to write on any subject that you just happen to like. Keep your focus for this assignment within the general scope of the Administration of Justice Organizations course.

In your review:

· Discuss the article's findings, any ethical dilemmas presented in the article, as well as how the specific topic relates to a biblical worldview.

· Ensure that you include information on the article's title, author, journal, date/edition, and web location. Address how the administrative, management, or leadership concepts and ideas presented in the article apply to justice administration. In other words, you are telling why this particular article has some merit to the study of criminal justice administration and how you are making a biblical connection to the content of the article.

· Your review paper must be 2-3 pages and be double-spaced.

· Include both a working link that goes directly to the article's web location and a citation of the article.

· The article must be less than 5 years old.

· You must include a brief discussion of 2 Bible verses that have a relevant reference to the main theme of the article.

· Current APA in the body of the review is the required format.