How does implicate real world practices and current events

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Research Paper Assignment

Instructions

During the course of the semester, each student will choose from pre-selected topics. Each student will be required to write 4-5 pages discussing their chosen topic. This paper will be in APA format. The research paper should consist of some history of your topic, the importance of the topic, research findings to support your view, and a current events example reflecting your topic. At the end of the semester you will have to create a PowerPoint Presentation on the research paper. The presentation must be at least 10 minutes and not exceeding 12 minutes.

Structure for Research Paper

I. Introduction: What is the specific topic

1. What are you specifically researching

2. Your introductory sentence should introduce your topic.

3. Introduction should include recent literature, assessments, disorders associated with x., etc.

4. Provide history related to your topic.

5. Outline the body of your paper by, in a sentence or two, writing what you will be presenting on related to your topic.

II. Body: Include studies that support your topic. You must include peer-reviewed journal articles found through the Mercy College web data base.

1. You may also include current news to include for examples that support and/or exemplify your research. This can be added, DO NOT make this your whole paper.

2. Your evidence should support the information in your introduction.

3. Overall you are discussing what you have learned from your research about that topic, or particular part of your research that you found interesting.

III. Conclusion:

1. What have you learned from the research - sum about the body.

2. Any ideas for future research?

3. How does this implicate real world practices and current events?

4. Any bias or limitations to the studies that you found.

5. Typically there should be no introduction of new information in the conclusion, you are simply tying together what you do in the body of your paper. Conclusion should generally be in your own words.

Topic Ideas:

1. Eyewitness Testimony& False Memory in Courts
2. Biases in Jury Selection
3. Civil Commitment
4. Police and Community Relationships
5. Effects of Media on Violence
6. Restorative Justice
7. Raise the Age: Juveniles tried as adults?
8. Child Abuse Prevention
9. Typologies of Sex Offenders
10. Typologies of Criminal Offenders
11. Association between Mental Health and Criminality
12. Role of Forensic Psychologist in Child Custody Cases
13. Assessments that predict future criminal behavior
14. Race, Class, and Gender and Crime.

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