Capstone Paper Rough Draft
[WLOs: 3, 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Prior to beginning work on this assignment read Chapter 6: Tracking Ideas and Sources from the text, and begin to research the ideas that you outlined in Week 2, using the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. You may also use any relevant sources that you found for your Week 1 Annotated Bibliography assignment.
This week you will build on the outline you created in Week 2. Think of this paper draft as an abbreviated version of your Capstone Paper; it does not need to be a complete Capstone Paper. Consider your rough draft a “mini-Capstone Paper†that will prepare you to create your comprehensive Capstone paper in Week 5.
Write a short paragraph for each of the points in your outline, Integrating Research to support these ideas. Add a short introductory paragraph, Writing a Thesis Statement at the beginning of your outline.
As you begin development of this paper, check out the Writing Center’s source Writing a Paper. It breaks down the entire process as well as provides links to other sources that will help you. Visit the University of Arizona Global Campus Library to review the Criminal Justice Research Guide which may help in your research. You may also find the University of Arizona Global Campus Library Quick N’ Dirty tutorial, The Research Process tutorial, and the Advanced Search Techniques tip sheet helpful as you conduct your research. As you conduct your research, the University of Arizona Global Campus Library also provides the RefWorks tool that will help you organize your research, create APA reference entries and citations, and more. Creating a RefWorks Account will assist you in creating an account in order to start using the tool.
After submitting your draft, you will receive feedback on this paper from your instructor in Week 4. Based on the instructor feedback that you receive, you will expand, revise, and edit your essay to create your final Capstone paper in Week 5.
In your paper,
- Revise your thesis statement that you created in Weeks 1 and 2, which identifies your social and criminal justice issue.
- Incorporate any feedback that you received regarding your thesis statement from your instructor.
- Summarize your chosen social and criminal justice issue.
- Describe what makes this an issue.
- Provide data to show how this issue has made an impact on society.
- Explain which social justice principles need to be addressed and why.
- Detail the cultural and diversity issues present in your chosen social and criminal justice problem.
- Describe how addressing your chosen issue contributes to the goal of a more just society.
- Analyze the empirical research on your chosen topic.
- You may use your Week 1 Annotated Bibliography to complete this section of the paper.
- Propose a possible resolution to your chosen social and criminal justice issue.
- Evaluate which branches of the criminal justice system are impacted/involved and how they either help or hinder the issue.
- Analyze how the criminal and social justice theories (in relation to the United States Constitution) and landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions impact your chosen issue and support your resolution.
- Examine how the judiciary, corrections, and law enforcement systems address social equality, solidarity, human rights, and overall fairness for all and how these essential concepts impact your issue and resolution.
- Evaluate how poverty, racism, religion and other sociocultural variables may apply to contemporary social and criminal justice by drawing information among the fields of, but not limited to, criminology, law, philosophy, psychology, science, and sociology.