• Sources: Your paper MUST use 20 peer-reviewed sociological or criminological articles. You may use an additional article or two from another discipline, organization, or government. If you write your paper from the perspective of psychology instead of sociology/criminology, then you will have points deducted. To find peer-reviewed sources you need to be using the school’s library website. What I would do is do a search and skim through the articles, finding the ones most relevant/best ones. You’ll want to narrow down to the United States, and in the last 20-30 years. You do not want research, which is too old. Crime has changed significantly since the 90s! Download them and begin reading them fully, taking notes on each article. Focus on the main argument, research methods, and findings. Write a list of arguments or subthemes you want to focus on, then rearrange them so they make sense. The point is not to just summarize these articles, you need to synthesize them. Then create an outline for your final paper. In your final paper you’ll want to fill in these subtopic/subthemes with the current literature and adding transition sentences. Once this is done, then you should write your introduction, with a thesis statement, and conclusion.
• Topic of your paper: Your paper must be on a subtopic having to do with violence. This is a violence course and the goals are to learn about the topic of violence while also reading, writing, and thinking about the social factors of violence, the societies response to violence, and the social outcomes of these responses.
Add 10 more sources to the attached paper/bib that I have previously written.