DeVry
CRMJ415 Week 1, 2 & 6 Course Project Part 1,2,3 Latest 2017 January
CRMJ415
Course Project
Deviance
Literature Review
Comprehensive
Guidelines
Objectives: This
three-part project will give you an opportunity to experience the beginning of
a research study by conducting a literature review of a deviance topic of your
choice.The purpose of a literature review is to inform the researcher about
what the state of theory development is with respect to his or her target study
topic.This knowledge then becomes the basis for constructing a research
methodology.The project is foundational to understanding how theory is
formulated and relates directly to the first three TCOs.The topic that you
choose will relate to at least one additional TCO.
A literature review is a form of secondary
research in which one reviews and analyzes data that come from intellectual
work previously done by others in the chosen topic area.Sources of data include
articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, court decisions, statutes,
personal narratives, government review articles, professional
publications(frequently referred to as trade journals) in a related field of
practice, newspaper articles in reputable national daily newspapers, book
chapters from academic sources, and Internet articles from professionally
credible organizations.Learning to conduct and write up a good literature
review is a valuable academic skill.
Guidelines:Your
Course Project is processed in three parts in Weeks 1, 2, and 6.These weeks are
the three milestones.Always submit the required work through the Dropboxes for
the specified weeks.Look for detailed instructions in the Assignmentspage of
the specified weeks and also in Doc Sharing for a copy of the comprehensive
guidelines.
Summary of point structure for three-part
Course Project
Week 1 Assignment Topic Choice 10 points
Week 2 Assignment Short Article Analysis 40
points
Week 5
Optional Rough draft review none
Week 6 Assignment Literature Review155 points
205 points
Milestone
1 (Week 1)
Topic
Choice (10 points):Choose a specific category of deviance that interests you (you
are not limited to types of deviance mentioned in the text).One good way to
locate a topic is to skim the table of contents or the subject index of our
course textbook.The next step involves searching EBSCOHost in the DeVry Online
Library and credible resources from the Internet.Did you find at least 8 or 10
articles, which would suggest there is enough information for a literature
review?If not, go through the process with another topic.
Note 1:For Internet website credibility
standards, see Doc Sharing for guidelines.
Note 2:This assignment will become the
introduction in your literature review due in Week 6.
Note 3:You will be using external sources of
information and are therefore required to use citations.
Note 4:You must use Microsoft Word in 10-point
font.You may single-space your content, because this is an informal
document.However, when it is incorporated into the final literature review, you
will need to double-space this content.
Graded
Product:Write a 150- to 200-word informal report.Identify the topic you
chose, describe it briefly, and report what you found out about the
availability of material for a literature review from your preliminary
investigation.
Here is an example of a topic choice write-up,
which contains 169 words, including the citation.
Deviance
Topic Choice
I
am interested in cults, sometimes called new religion movements, which exist
on the margins of mainstream society because they have rituals, beliefs, and
practices that are different enough to be perceived by society as threatening
to social order and therefore deviant (Myers, 2010).
A
Google search using the term cultsresulted in 4.35
million hits.I scanned the first three pages of links and observed that there
were at least 10 websites that could potentially be used in my project after
assessing their credibility.An EBSCOHost Basic search of Academic Search
Premier using the same term resulted in nearly 4400 hits, of which at least
three on the first page appeared to be potentially useful for my literature
review.
I
have concluded that there are enough information resources available to meet
the requirements for the literature review project, which specifies that at
least nine credible information resources must be reviewed, analyzed, and
reported.
Reference
Cited
Myers,
D. (2010).Social psychology (10thed.).New York:
McGraw-Hill.
The Topic Choice assignment will be marked as
follows.
7 points (clarity and organization of content)
3 points (proper APA
citation format)
10 points
Upload the report document to the Week 1
Dropbox by no later than the close of Week 1 on Sunday.
Milestone
2 (Week 2)
Short
Article Analysis (35 points):From your Week 1 work, you will know where to
find articles about your chosen topic.Retrieve full texts of three of these
articles, including at least one from EBSCOHost in the DeVry Online Library.The
article contents are the data for your Week 2 homework.
Note 1: You must assess the website-based
articles for credibility, and there is a link to an article explaining how to
do this in the Webliography.
Note2:This assignment will eventually become
the part of your final literature review.Your References Cited section will
grow as your project proceeds.
Note 3:You must use Microsoft Word and
double-space in 10-point font.
Graded
Product:Write a summary of the contents of each of the three articles,
and report the general theme or themes you have discovered.This can be done in
less than 300 words, including citations in APA format within the text and at
the end of your analysis.
Except that it is not double-spaced as will be
required in your actual assignment submission, the structure could be something
like this example about cults, which contains 270 words (inclusive of
citations).
Short
Article Analysis: Cults as Deviance
The
first article about cults that I selected revealed that these organizations
are lead by a charismatic person who believes the mainstream culture is evil
and attracts followers to his or her radical ideas about an alternative
lifestyle.These followers are isolated from mainstream society by the leader
and easily influenced towards actions and beliefs that represent deviance
from established social norms (Myers, 2010, p. 271â273).The second article
that I looked at pointed out that cults will inevitably be subjected to
social control attempts by authorities because they are perceived as
dangerous to social order (Gardener, 1997).
The
last article that I consulted was about how cult members are subjected to
social control by the cult leader; once a member of the cult, the person is
expected to be a committed advocate for the cult and demonstrate his or her
loyalty, even if that means following the leader into death (Unknown,
2000).From these three articles, I conclude that a cult is perceived as a
dangerous type of deviant group by society and subject to interventions by
authorities.At the same time, the internal climate of the cult does not
tolerate noncompliance by members, which would represent another form of
deviance from the group norms within the cult.
References
Cited
Gardner,
M. (1997).Heavenâs gate: The UFO cult of Bo and Peep, in Skeptical
Inquirer, July/August(15â17).
Myers,
D. (2010).Social psychology(10th ed.). New
York: McGraw-Hill.
Unknown.
(2000).Ugandan sect commits fiery mass suicide.The
Christian Century,117(11), 386.Retrieved from EBSCOHost database. (Document ID:
52220735).
The Short Article Analysis will be marked as
follows.
10 points (explanation of topic chosen)
20 points (analysis and description of article
contents)
10 points (proper use of
APA format for citations)
40 points
Upload the analysis document to the Week 2
Dropbox by no later than the close of Week 2 on Sunday.
Week 5
(Optional):You are strongly encouraged to create a rough draft of your
Course Project and submit it to your instructor by e-mail so that he or she can
give you constructive feedback as needed.
Milestone
#3 (Week 6)
Literature
Review (155 points):Your final product incorporates the work that you did in Weeks
1 and 2 into a larger document that builds on the earlier material.
Locate not less than six additional articles
from the sources located in the overview of the project above.You may also use
the Goode textbook as one information resource.If you choose to use Internet
articles, they cannot be from dictionary, encyclopedia, or article search
websites like Find Article.Blogs, Wikipedia, and the websites of other
universities are strictly off limits, according to DeVry policy.Your literature
review must thus contain at least nine credible information resources.Remember
to assess the credibility of any Internet resource used.
Note 1:As a general guideline, it takes at
least 1,000 words to produce a satisfactory document that is worthy of the 155
points available for this final part of the Course Project.You are free to
write more if you perceive that additional content is necessary to produce a
document that is satisfactory to you.
Note 2:Your document must be done in Microsoft
Word, double-spaced, and in 10-point font.
Note 3:CAUTION:The literature review is
subject to being evaluated for originality.DeVry instructors obtain an
originality score from turnitin.com that is used as a measure of how much of
your document is your own original writing.Conversely, it measures how much of
your content is lifted moreorless directly from the intellectual property of
another person, which constitutes plagiarism.As you know, plagiarism is a
potentially serious academic offence, so you will want to familiarize yourself
again with the Syllabus in Course Home where this is discussed.
Graded
Product:The literature review should represent your best academic
writing and work. Pay careful attention to paragraphing, sentence structure,
quotation conventions, spelling, grammar, organization, punctuation, citation
protocol, and other aspects of style and content. Remember to proofread
thoroughly.
A recommended structure for your literature
review would be as follows.
Suggested length of section
Suggested Section Subheading
Comments
One
page
Title
page
Title
of paper and your name
Contents
of your Week 1 assignment, Topic Choice
Introduction
What
topic did you choose, and what is the state of knowledge about it?
Contents
of your Week 2 assignment, Short
Article Analysis, plus six additional articlesâlength as needed
Article
Descriptions
Provide
a description of the contents of nine articles you have collected.
At
least three paragraphs
Analysis
and Findings
What
are the themes in your group of articles?What theories of deviance do they
represent?
At
least two paragraphs
Conclusions
What
have you learned about your subject from your literature review?
Length
as needed
References
Cited
APA
format is required.
The Literature Review will be marked as
follows:
10 points Content quality of introduction
35 points Content quality of article
descriptions
35 points Content quality of analysis and
findings
25 points Content quality of conclusions
20 points Quality of writing and editing
30 points Correctness of
citation work
155 points
Upload the Literature Review document to the
Week 6 Dropbox by nolater than the close of Week 6.
DeVry
CRMJ415 Week 3 Assignment Latest 2017 January
CRMJ415
Critical Thinking Analysis (40
points)
Gay Bashing
TCOs: 1: Defining deviance,types of
deviance
4: Criminal behavior, violence
Case:Matthew Shepard, a young homosexual man who was a student
at the University of Wyoming, died on October 12, 1998, of severe injuries
received from a brutal and prolongedattack by two other young men he met in a
bar 6 days earlier.Shepardâs two attackers were Aaron McKinney and Russell
Henderson, to whom he admitted he was gay.Pretending to befriend him, they
instead transported him to a rural area, tied him to a barbed wire fence,
tortured and beat him, and then left him.Many hours later,a passerby found him
clinging to life.He died in the hospital within the week.McKinney and
Henderson, in possession of a bloodied gun and some of Shepardâs possessions,
were arrested following his death and charged with murder.At trial, they first
claimed the gay panic defense (temporary insanity) and later argued that they
had only intended to rob him but things go out of hand.Their girlfriends
testified that the two men stalked Shepard and that both were sober.Each was
convicted of felony murder and sent to prison.
Shepardâs parents became tireless
advocates against gay bashing, a form of homophobia defined as verbal and/or
physical harassment or assault of people who are perceived to be lesbian, gay,
bisexual, or transgendered. The word perceived is important:
There have been cases where someone makes a misattribution of anotherâs sexual
orientation based on the cultural stereotype of homosexuality and aggresses
against the target erroneously.
Assignment:Analyze this case using course concepts we have studied so
far.Write an essay that contains at least these three components: how deviance
occurred, what kind(s) of deviance occurred, and at least one theoretical
perspective that you think has good explanatory power with respect to this
case.
· If you use the text or external
resources, remember to use APA citations in the body of your essay and in the
corresponding references section at the end of the essay.Reminder:You cannot
use Wikipedia or the websites of other universities.
· Create a Microsoft Word document,
using double-spacing, paragraphs, and subheadings for each component.
· There is no set length for your
essay, although 500 words or more will probably be needed to provide sound
analysis.
· Carefully edit your essay for
grammar and spelling errors and for presentation style.
This assignment is due by1 minute
before midnight on the last Sunday of Week 3.Please submit it through the Week
3 Dropbox.
DeVry
CRMJ415 Week 5 Assignment Latest 2017 January
CRMJ 415
Critical Thinking Analysis (50
points)
Mental Disorder and Social Control
TCOs: 1: Defining deviance,types of
deviance
4: Criminal behavior
7: Physical characteristics (extends
to mental disorders)
Case:Obsessed With Trains
Note:Autism spectrum disorders
(ASDs) are the most common neurological disorders affecting children and are
one of the most common developmental disabilities in our society.ASDs change
the way the brain processes information and can affect all aspects of a
person’s development.Aspergerâs syndrome, often described as high-functioning
autism, is characterized by social awkwardness and behaviors perceived as
eccentric by normal standards, including obsessive interests that make people
with the disorder stick out in society.
In November 2006,the New
York Times reported a story with this headline: âMan Obsessed
WithTrains Again Runs Afoul of the Law.âDaniel McCollum, 41, who suffers from
Aspergerâs syndrome, had already been arrested many times over the previous 25
years for train-related offences, including impersonating transit workers,
taking busses and subway trains for joy rides, tripping emergency brakes,
entering subway control towers, and trying to steal a Long Island Railway
locomotive.
In June 2006, Mr. McCollum was
conditionally released from Sing Sing Prison, where he was serving a term for
burglary and forgery, to live with his parents in Winston-Salem, NC.By
November, he had grown bored with North Carolina and disappeared, violating the
terms of his parole.Authorities believed it was likely that he would return to
New York City, and the transit police were told to be on the lookout for an
imposter posing as a transit worker.
In August 2006,in response to a plea
from police asking companies to be watchful for purchases that might be used in
terrorist activities, a public safety equipment company contacted the New York
police to advise them that a man was trying to buy a transit-style badge.The
individual was identified as Mr. McCollum, whose purchase attempt violated
another condition of his parole.Three months later, the police were able to
reach him on his cell phone, convinced him to turn himself in, and arrested
him.
His latest offense is for criminal
impersonation; when police arrested him, he was in possession of an
official-looking transit authority ID badge, construction hat, and train
conductor manuals, which violated the terms of his parole for earlier
offences.When he appeared in court after his arrest, Mr. McCollum admitted that
he found trains irresistible, and even though he knew that the terms of his
parole prohibited him from any involvement with transit trains in New York, he
still had an overwhelming desire to be in a train yard or train.Advocates for
Mr. McCollum argue that the legal system failed him because he is different in
a way that is typically reflected in obsessive behavior.
Assignment:Analyze this case using course concepts.Write an essay that
contains answers to these three questions: how deviance occurred, what kind(s)
of deviance occurred, and at least one theoretical perspective on social
control that you think has good explanatory power with respect to this case.
· If you use the text or external
resources remember to use APA citations in the body of your essay and in the
corresponding references section at the end of the essay.Reminder:You cannot
use Wikipedia or the websites of other universities.
· Create a Microsoft Word document,
using double-spacing, paragraphs, and subheadings for each component.
· There is no set length for your
essay, although 750 words or more will probably be needed to provide sound
analysis.
· Carefully edit your essay for
grammar and spelling errors and for presentation style.
This assignment is due by1 minute
before midnight on the last Sunday of Week 7.Please submit it through the Week
7Dropbox.Note:No late submissions are permitted for Week 7 assignments unless
you meet DeVryâs policy for emergency conditions.
DeVry
CRMJ415 Week 7 Assignment Latest 2017 January
CRMJ 415
Critical Thinking Analysis (50
points)
Mental Disorder and Social Control
TCOs: 1: Defining deviance,types of
deviance
4: Criminal behavior
7: Physical characteristics (extends
to mental disorders)
Case:Obsessed With Trains
Note:Autism spectrum disorders
(ASDs) are the most common neurological disorders affecting children and are
one of the most common developmental disabilities in our society.ASDs change
the way the brain processes information and can affect all aspects of a
person’s development.Aspergerâs syndrome, often described as high-functioning
autism, is characterized by social awkwardness and behaviors perceived as
eccentric by normal standards, including obsessive interests that make people
with the disorder stick out in society.
In November 2006,the New
York Times reported a story with this headline: âMan Obsessed
WithTrains Again Runs Afoul of the Law.âDaniel McCollum, 41, who suffers from
Aspergerâs syndrome, had already been arrested many times over the previous 25
years for train-related offences, including impersonating transit workers,
taking busses and subway trains for joy rides, tripping emergency brakes,
entering subway control towers, and trying to steal a Long Island Railway
locomotive.
In June 2006, Mr. McCollum was
conditionally released from Sing Sing Prison, where he was serving a term for
burglary and forgery, to live with his parents in Winston-Salem, NC.By
November, he had grown bored with North Carolina and disappeared, violating the
terms of his parole.Authorities believed it was likely that he would return to
New York City, and the transit police were told to be on the lookout for an
imposter posing as a transit worker.
In August 2006,in response to a plea
from police asking companies to be watchful for purchases that might be used in
terrorist activities, a public safety equipment company contacted the New York
police to advise them that a man was trying to buy a transit-style badge.The
individual was identified as Mr. McCollum, whose purchase attempt violated
another condition of his parole.Three months later, the police were able to
reach him on his cell phone, convinced him to turn himself in, and arrested
him.
His latest offense is for criminal
impersonation; when police arrested him, he was in possession of an
official-looking transit authority ID badge, construction hat, and train
conductor manuals, which violated the terms of his parole for earlier
offences.When he appeared in court after his arrest, Mr. McCollum admitted that
he found trains irresistible, and even though he knew that the terms of his
parole prohibited him from any involvement with transit trains in New York, he
still had an overwhelming desire to be in a train yard or train.Advocates for
Mr. McCollum argue that the legal system failed him because he is different in
a way that is typically reflected in obsessive behavior.
Assignment:Analyze this case using course concepts.Write an essay that
contains answers to these three questions: how deviance occurred, what kind(s)
of deviance occurred, and at least one theoretical perspective on social
control that you think has good explanatory power with respect to this case.
· If you use the text or external
resources remember to use APA citations in the body of your essay and in the
corresponding references section at the end of the essay.Reminder:You cannot
use Wikipedia or the websites of other universities.
· Create a Microsoft Word document,
using double-spacing, paragraphs, and subheadings for each component.
· There is no set length for your
essay, although 750 words or more will probably be needed to provide sound
analysis.
· Carefully edit your essay for
grammar and spelling errors and for presentation style.
This assignment is due by1 minute
before midnight on the last Sunday of Week 7.Please submit it through the Week
7Dropbox.Note:No late submissions are permitted for Week 7 assignments unless
you meet DeVryâs policy for emergency conditions.
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