Contemporary Issues

Topic Reference Search

Topic Reference Search: (Open assignment in black board for specific formatting details.)

There are two parts to this assignment:

Part One: Annotated Bibliography

We will cover three topics referencing Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice. Each student will be required to conduct scholarly research (utilizing the search engines provided) regarding the stated topics.

You will locate one article for each topic and save that article to use when writing your essay. Next you will reference your article. Once complete you should have three references, one for each essay.

Part Two: Debates

We will have three debates over a contemporary issue in criminal justice. Each student will be required to conduct scholarly research of videos regarding the stated debate topics.

You will locate one video for each debate topic. The video must be a documentary. Next you will reference your video. Once complete you should have three references, one for each video used to complete the debate.

Once you have found all 6 references (3 articles for the Annotate Bibliographies and 3 videos for the Debates) you will submit your reference page to me in black board. This is worth 100 points.

If you are unsure how to complete a reference page, you can visit Purdue owl.

Topics

• Topic1: Civil Unrest: Riots, protests, etc..,

• Topic 2: Police Use/Misuse of Deadly Force:

• Topic 3: Prison Over Crowding in America :

Debates

• Debate Topic One: Criminal Justice Reform:

Debate Topic Two: The Death Penalty:

Debate Topic Three: Juvenile Tried as Adults