Assignment 1

You will need to identify an issue/event that is relevant to their community at the intersection of the criminal justice system. This short paper will be the first draft/iteration of the lead paragraph for your final project. The paper should be written in a manner in which someone unfamiliar with the issue/event gains a general understanding about the topic and why it is relevant.

1. Running Title head. At the top of the first page.

2. Social Problem/event (community issue). Identify a social problem, issue/event within your community that relates to the criminal justice system to serve as a working topic for your final project. Students can discuss the impact of the issue/event nationwide but it must be connected locally.The assignment should address the 5Ws and H of the event/issue that you are reporting about.

DO NOT systematically address the 5Ws and H by answering each one-by-one. Rather, the list below is a guide for what should be addressed in your paper.

• Who: are those that are mainly affected by the issue/event being reported?
• What: are the key events?
• Where: did those events take place?
• Why: did these events occur?
• When: did these events happened?
• How did the events occur, or what made them able to happen.

3. Background Research & Citations.

While there are no minimum or maximum source requirements for this assignment, students must conduct research and reference background information about their topic. It is not enough to describe an event or issues. Students must provide context, data, facts, historical reference, or other form of context for the topic being covered.

my topic is about high crime rates in my city so write about that and wanting community police to do better to have better neighborhood environment and over safe in south LA.

references to include on essay click on link and use use APA-style citation guidelines.

https://abc7.com/post/lapd-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-south-la/16026310/#:~:text=Police%20are%20investigating%20an%20officer,shooting%20were%20not%20immediately%20available.

https://www.foxla.com/news/south-la-deadly-shooting-march-21-2025

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/city-rising/the-history-of-south-central-los-angeles-and-its-struggle-with-gentrification

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Assignment 2

Description: For this assignment, your task is to annotate a minimum of 3scholarly articlesrelevant to your topic. The information gathered from this assignment will be integrated into your final project. Your sources should be academic peer-reviewed journal articles, official reports, books/book chapters, or other scholarly materials. Students can use course readings, if relevant to their topic. Newspaper articles (e.g., New York Times, Washington Post, Buzzfeed, etc.) and blogs are NOT scholarly sources. Students can use non-scholarly sources, but WILL NOTcount toward the total source count. On the other hand, reports by government agencies or organizations (e.g., USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration) do count as scholarly sources.

Instructions:

1. Running Title Head:At the top of the first page.

2.Synopsis. After selecting your articles, students will need to address the following guidelines and use the title heads below in bold (i.e., Title, Summary, Assessment, and Reflection)to organize EACH SOURCE.

1. Title. List your source using APA-style citation.
2. Summary. Write at least a one paragraph synthesis of each article. I want to know in your own words what was the article about, what are the main arguments, and what are the main themes covered? Avoid direct quotations. If you feel you absolutely need to quote something directly, keep it to one line of text.
3. Assessment. Evaluate the source. For example: What kind of source is it? A report, research study, so forth. Is it a useful source? How so? Do you find issues with the source? Who is the intended audience?
4. Reflection. How does the source fit in your event/issue for your final project? How can you use it in your project? How does it help shape your project? How does it relate to other sources in this bibliography?

link to 3scholarly articles relevant to my topic high crime rates in south LA (this rates to my assignment 1 so go back to it to make sure it's good)

https://knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/The_State_of_South_LA.pdf

https://diversity.williams.edu/davis-center/files/2015/05/Crack-in-Los-Angeles-Crisis-Militarization-and-Black-Response-to-the-Late-Twentieth-Century-War-on-Drugs.pdf

https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/

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