Prof. Zwick - Introduction to Criminal Justice SPRING 2021: Home / Your Assignment

Welcome! This guide has been created for students in Dr. Zwick's Criminal Justice class.

The resources on these pages will help you:

• Find background information on your topic
• Develop a search strategy for locating sources
• Find scholarly research articles using the library databases
• Differentiate popular periodicals from scholarly journals
• Evaluate sources
• Cite your sources using APA format
• Avoid plagiarism
• Get additional help from the Academic Support Center and the Writing Tutorial
• Work from home

Your assignment requires you to demonstrate an ability to apply a scientific criminological theory to a specific criminological event.

The focus of your research should be on explaining the behavior of the perpetrator using criminological theory.

• Consider a specific criminal event with a specific perpetrator.
• Provide a brief description of the event/s and perpetrator.
• Your work should demonstrate
  • (1) an understanding of the personal and social variables that contribute to criminality, and
  • (2) your ability to apply a specific theory to the individual.

You are required to use at least 4 academic sources, including websites that end in .edu, .gov, or .org.

Citations should be formatted using APA (American Psychological Association) style format.

Gay, Jerry. “Ted Bundy Peers Beyond the Page of the Book he is Reading at the Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.” True Crime Magazine, www.thecrimemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ted-bundy-in-prison-library-1.jpg. Accessed 4 Feb. 2020.