Origins of Crime: Biological, Developmental, or Situational?

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Origins of Crime: Biological, Developmental, or Situational?[WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]

Prior to beginning the assignment, review Chapters 4 and 5 in your textbook, where risk factors for criminal behavior are covered from a biological, developmental, and situational perspective. Keeping your own “client” in mind (that you chose for your final paper), please read the chapters and in this assignment please cover the following:

  • Assess the role (briefly) that all three (biological, developmental, and situational) perspectives play in influencing criminal behavior.
  • Choose one of the three perspectives (biological, developmental, or situational).
  • Evaluate the relationship between your chosen perspective and criminal behavior.
  • Illustrate a link between your client’s crimes and your chosen perspective based on the client you chose for your Comprehensive Case Study Report Final Paper.

Be sure to use examples from the textbook and your client’s case to support your assertions.

The Origins of Crime: Biological, Developmental, or Situational? paper

  • Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper,
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

  • Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
  • Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
    • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
  • Must use at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed, credible source in addition to the course text.
    • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  • Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

What does professional growth mean to you?

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After exploring the resources for this week, please answer the following questions:

  1. What does professional growth mean to you?
  2. Why is networking so important? How can you do this more?
  3. How important is continued education for your future success?

Support response with at least one peer-reviewed journal article with properly formatted APA in-text citation and reference 7th edition

After researching various professional development opportunities, what short-term plan of action (1-3 years) will you take to remain current in your field?

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PSY693

Field of Psychology in couseling

After researching various professional development opportunities, what short-term plan of action (1-3 years) will you take to remain current in your field? Include a specific example for each category: networking, professional organizations, journals, and continued education.

250 word discussion

apa format 7th edition

Does Dr. Ford care too much? Does she suffer from compassion fatigue?

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Students will write a 1,000 word CRB based on one of the following three prompts. This assignment is worth 100 points. The CBR is a required assignment. A student cannot pass the class without submitting a CBR. (100 points total)

Option1: Ford, E. (2017). Sometimes amazing things happen: Heartbreak and hope on the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward. Regan Arts. Dr. Ford is a compassionate psychiatrist and dedicated to the care of her patients who are also incarcerated for a wide range of crimes. At times, it seems her patients’ needs take priority over her marriage and child. Prompt: Does Dr. Ford care too much? Does she suffer from compassion fatigue?

Why is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) effective? In a non-clinical sense, how can CBT or behavior analysis help a doctoral learner succeed? 

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Why is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) effective? In a non-clinical sense, how can CBT or behavior analysis help a doctoral learner succeed?

275 words, apa, only peer-review articles

Cristea, I. A., Montgomery, G. H., Szamoskozi, S., & David, D. (2013). Key constructs in “classical”

and “new wave” cognitive behavioral psychotherapies: Relationships among each other and

with emotional distress. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 69(6), 584-599.

Carpenter, J. K., Andrews, L. A., Witcraft, S. M., Powers, M. B., Smits, J. A. J., & Hofmann,

S. G. (2108). Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders: A meta‐analysis

of randomized placebo‐controlled trials. Depression and Anxiety, 35(6), 502-514.

read the following resources on Dr. Loïc Wacquant’s research:

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read the following resources on Dr. Loïc Wacquant’s research:

  • “Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prizefighter”
  • “A Fleshpeddler at Work: Power, Pain, and Profit in the Prizefighting Economy”
  • “Whores, Slaves, and Stallions: Languages of Exploitation and Accommodation Among Professional Boxers”
  • “UC’s ‘boxing sociologist’ / Combative French Professor Spent 3 Years in Ring (Links to an external site.)”
  • A Professor Who Refuses To Pull His Punches (Links to an external site.)
  • Boxing Proves a Hit for French Sociologists (Links to an external site.)

An important part of analyzing research approaches includes understanding the positive and negative aspects of varied forms of social research. Ethnography as an approach allows a researcher to immerse in a unique social world in order to experience the lives of those who live there. The most intriguing aspects of this type of qualitative research is how the researcher maintains an ethical and neutral stance, how the experience can impact them, and how they use the experience for positive social change.

In your paper, you will present the benefits of ethnographical research in terms of understanding a unique social world, as well as understanding the qualitative researcher’s role in performing and reporting on ethnographic research. You will do this through the resources provided, your own research of immersive ethnographical approaches, also through critiquing Dr. Loïc Wacquant’s work.

In your paper, include the following sections/components:

Role of Researcher (One to two pages)

  • Explain the researcher’s role in qualitative research in general and specifically in an ethnographic approach.
  • Discuss the unique issues that researchers should be concerned about in qualitative research.
  • Explain the challenges researchers face in ethnographical research.
  • Discuss specific actions researchers can take to ensure they retain their ethical and neutral stance in performing qualitative research and reporting their qualitative research results.

Loïc Wacquant’s Research (One to two pages)

  • Summarize what Loïc Wacquant’s research was about.
  • Determine whether Wacquant maintained an ethical and neutral stance.
  • Justify the research approach Wacquant chose to take.
  • Explain whether this could have been possible with a quantitative research study.

Impact of Research (One page)

  • Discuss how qualitative research and, in particular, ethnographic research, can inform our understanding of unique social worlds.
  • Describe the potential impact of research in supporting positive social change through public policy.

The Value of Qualitative Research paper

  • Must be five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

Mental Health Consultation

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Mental Health Consultation

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, it is recommended that you read Chapter 1 in Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy: Initial Assessment, Boundaries, Money, Disruptions and Suicidal Crises and Chapters 1, 2, and 4 in The Psychiatric Interview: Evaluation and Diagnosis.

Respond to at least one of your colleagues in the discussion forum before creating your assignment submission.For this assignment, you will take on the role of a mental health professional providing a consultation to a colleague. Your colleague in this case happens to be a licensed clinical psychologist. Carefully review the PSY645 Fictional Mental Health Consultation Scenario (Links to an external site.) which provides information on your colleague’s patient and specific questions your colleague has posed to you as a consultant. Once you have reviewed the scenario, research a minimum of two peer-reviewed articles in the Ashford University Library related to the situation(s) presented in the scenario and how these have been approached and treated in previous cases.

Write an evaluation of the patient’s symptoms and presenting problems within the context of one theoretical orientation (e.g., psychoanalytic, cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, etc.). Summarize views of these symptoms and presenting problems within the context of at least one historical perspective and two theoretical orientations different from the one used in your evaluation (e.g.:, cognitive, humanistic, psychodynamic, integrative) in order to provide alternative viewpoints. To conclude, justify the use of diagnostic manuals and handbooks besides the DSM-5 that might be used to assess this prospective patient.

The Mental Health Consultation:

  • Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and  must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Must use at least two peer-reviewed sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

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Reading and critically analyzing academic research in journal articles is an important part of learning and applying scholarly research for multiple applications within your discipline.

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Reading and critically analyzing academic research in journal articles is an important part of learning and applying scholarly research for multiple applications within your discipline. The first four weeks of this course discussed the various components of research design. Your final assignment is an academic research-article critique. The purpose of this critique is to ensure that you know how to read and critically assess research for use in your own research, understand social problems in society, support decision making in public policy, or to influence one’s own individual research.

For this final assignment, read and critically review one of the journal articles listed below:

  • “Experiences of Intimate Partner and Neighborhood Violence and Their Association With Mental Health in Pregnant Women”
  • “An Investigation of the Influence of the Spatial Distribution of Neighborhood Violent Crime on Fear of Crime”
  • “Military Service and Lifetime Arrests: Examining the Effects of the Total Military Experience on Arrests in a Sample of Prison Inmates”
  • “Gender Differences on the Road to Redemption”
  • “Afterschool School Triathlon Training for 11- to 14-year Old Girls: Influences on Academic Motivation and Achievement”
  • “The Effect of Social Support, Gratitude, Resilience, and Satisfaction with Life on Depressive Symptoms Among Police Officers following Hurricane Katrina”
  • “Economic Sanctions and the Dynamics of Terrorist Campaigns”
  • “‘Gimme Shelter’: The Role of Democracy and Institutional Quality in Disaster Preparedness”
  • “Subcultural Boundary Maintenance in a virtual community for body modification enthusiasts”
  • “A Snapshot on the Daily Sedentary Behavior of Community-Dwelling Older African American Women”
  • “Institutional Factors and Processes in Interagency Collaboration: The Case of FEMA Corps”

Next, apply the methods detailed in Using a Scientific Journal Article to Write a Critical Review (Links to an external site.) to critique the article you selected. At a minimum, the critique should include the following information:

  • Introduction (about two pages): Summarize the article you chose, including the purpose of the study, the methodology utilized, the results obtained, and the conclusions drawn by the author(s) utilizing questions posed in the reading. Utilize questions posed in the “Analyze the Text” section of Using a Scientific Journal Article to Write a Critical Review (Links to an external site.) to develop this section.
  • Body (about five pages): Highlight the quality of the research article (both the strengths and weaknesses) as expressed through each section of the paper (i.e., introduction, methods, results, discussion, overview). Use questions posed in the “Evaluate the Text” section of “Using a Scientific Journal Article to Write a Critical Review (Links to an external site.)” to develop this section. Follow the “Evaluate the Text” prompts and include the following:
    • Critique whether the researcher used the appropriate and ethical application of research methods in relation to their research goals.
    • Assess whether the application of quantitative methods approaches, qualitative methods approaches or a combination (mixed methods) was appropriate in the article research.
    • Interpret data and empirical findings in the research through an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses.
    • Examine the role of the research design in the article by defending or critiquing the research method based on your assessment.
    • Support the impact of the research by determining if it benefits social policy, theoretical knowledge, or both.
  • Conclusion (about three pages): Discuss the significance of the research. Utilize questions posed in the “Establish the Significance of the Research” section of Using a Scientific Journal Article to Write a Critical Review (Links to an external site.) to develop this section.

The Academic Research-Article Critique paper

  • Must be 10 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

  • Must utilize an academic voice. See Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resources for additional guidance.
  • Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
    • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
  • Must use at least 2 scholarly sources in addition to the course text. One of these sources must be from the Ashford University Library.
    • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  • Must document any information used by sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resources in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

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Consider what you have learned about collective behavior, social movements, and social change this week. How is the global expansion of social media likely to affect how people pursue social change?

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Consider what you have learned about collective behavior, social movements, and social change this week. How is the global expansion of social media likely to affect how people pursue social change? How has it done so already? Use specific examples from the media (including a link to information about a recent social movement) as you analyze social movements, social change, technology, and the media.

Darwin believed that men and women picked mates based on certain attraction cues that ensure the successful reproduction of the human species

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Write down the first 5 things that come to mind when you think of being attracted to someone.

Darwin believed that men and women picked mates based on certain attraction cues that ensure the successful reproduction of the human species. Based on what you’ve learned and your dating experiences, please answer the following questions: Is there anything from your list that corresponds with Darwin’s Evolutionary theory? Please share your results. Did anything surprise you?

This week you read about the different stages and types of relationships (dating, hooking up, cohabitating, and marriage). Wrap up this week by sharing your thoughts on the future of “relationships”? For example, do you think people will continue to search for their soulmate or will marriage become a thing of the past? Is technology making it easier or more difficult for people to maintain healthy relationships? What theory made the most sense to you and why? (Those are just some ideas to get you started. Please feel free to answer those questions and/or share your own take-away.)