Topic: The impact of wrongful convictions on the entire US criminal justice system.

minimum of TEN (10) sources, FIVE (5) of which must be scholarly, peer-reviewed sources. The annotated bibliography shall include ALL ten sources you have researched and will use in your paper. You may add additional references as you go.

The Bibliography must be annotated and formatted using APA style (alphabetically rather than chronologically). Your annotation is to include a brief description of the article and include the highlights about what the source has to offer for your paper.

***request to have one article abstract tonight for submission

Paper guidelines:

Papers should include the following content:

Title Page – including paper title, your name, course prefix and title, and semester

Statement of the problem or introduction of the topic that will be covered.

Review of relevant literature

Use evidence from peer-reviewed journals in relevant fields to summarize what is known about your topic

Current “state of affairs” regarding your topic

Contextualize the issue you are covering within the larger scheme of society

How does this issue affect other parts of society (i.e. economy, social/cultural consequences, education systems, political systems, technological systems, the criminal justice system overall)?

You may use non-academic sources for this section – empirical research above tells us one thing, but what is the larger dialogue in society about this topic and how does that compare to the research literature?

Implications and Conclusions

This is the chance to “bring it all together”

What does it all mean? Why do we care?