Assignment paper

For this assignment, students are expected to write a paper and demonstrate an understanding of crime and criminological theories. The paper must be your own work. Do not use AI tools to complete this assignment.

Students are expected to demonstrate the ability to find and use academic and scholarly sources to support this assignment. Select two crimes and apply two or three different criminological theories that best explain criminal behavior.

• The paper must be at least 7 pages of written content (Not counting title page or references)
• Follow APA guidelines (Use proper APA in-text citations and references)
• Use bold headers for each main section.
• You paper should include and address the following areas and content:

Crime Description and Analysis

• Provide a description of each crime or criminal behavior you selected. Explain what is known about this crime.
• Include information about the general characteristics of offenders who engage in the selected crimes.
• What is known about these crimes according to research ( economic, social, environmental context)
• Why is it relevant to understand this topic or crime
• Use academic/scholarly sources to support the information.
• Follow APA guidelines and cite your sources

Criminological Theories

• For each selected crime, use two or three criminological theories to analyze the crime.
• Define each theory and provide theoretical context.
• Explain how each criminal theory helps explain criminal behavior in relation to the crimes you selected.
• Clearly connect each theory or concepts to the specifics of the selected crimes.
• Explain why each theory is useful to understand each crime
• Use academic/scholarly sources to support the information.
• Follow APA guidelines and cite your sources

Compare and Evaluate

• Compare the theories you used for each crime
• Describe your understanding of the theories and which theories do you believe best explains each criminal behavior.
• Explain how different theories explain different aspects of the same crime.
• Identify some of the limitations of each theory. Explain how each theory differs in their limitations.
• Use academic/scholarly sources to support the information
• Follow APA guidelines and cite your sources.

Conclusion

• Provide a learning reflection about your findings and describe how the criminological theories that you selected help your understanding of crime.
• Explain how can the selected criminological theories can help inform crime prevention and policy.

References

• Use at least 7 scholarly/academic sources.
• Provide a list of your references.
• Follow APA guidelines to and list and format your references.