Description
Topic: The impact of wrongful convictions in the entire US Criminal Justice System
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?