The topic will be Homicide.
Two Theories to write about:
-Evolutionary Theory
-Social Learning Theory
A Writing Guide and the Recommended Outlines for the Final Paper
You may fulfill the requirements for the final paper if you follow the suggestions below. In the following sections, I discuss the compositions of the expected final paper elements. At the end, I provide a rough idea about the recommended length and format of the final paper, how will the paper be evaluated, and tips of journal searching through Lamar library online sources.
1. Your may choose your own topic that can be either a type of crime or criminals. Your whole purpose here is to make arguments why one theory (or a school of similar theories) is better than another one (which should be also a good one for the type of crime or criminals) in explanation why the chosen type of crime/criminals were committed. In other words, both theories (or schools of theories) are good ones for explanation of your chosen crime/criminals and you utilize some empirical studies’ findings to support your explanations. Furthermore, you will argue why one theory is better than the other one due to certain factors (i.e., evidences from the empirical study findings).
2. Empirical studies used to support your paper arguments should retrieve from Lamar University Library Quick Search located on the page of http://library.lamar.edu (more directions are in the end of this guide). Please keep in mind: do NOT use news media articles to support your arguments, nor use some specific individual cases to illustrate your points since they are more likely to be biased/edited by the media. To know if your found article is an academic journal publication, you should find if it has sections such as literature reviews, data or method session, results/findings of their studies, and conclusion/discussion. Media reports usually do NOT have these sessions.
