CRMJ 415COMPLETE COURSE
CRMJ415 COMPLETE COURSE
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CRMJ 415 Week 3 Assignment
Critical Thinking Analysis-Gay Bashing
CRMJ
415
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
prolonged attack by two other young men he met in a bar six days earlier.
Shepard’s 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 Shepard’s 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.
Shepard’s 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 another’s 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 Cited 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 by one
minute before midnight on the last Sunday of Week 3. Please submit it through
the Week 3 drop box.
Grading:
Quality of analysis (use of
course concepts and reasoning) 30 points
Quality of editing (APA
citations, free from spelling, grammar errors) 6 points
Quality of presentation
(subheadings and paragraphing) 4 points
Total points available 40 points
CRMJ 415 Week 5 Assignment
Critical Thinking Analysis-Whistleblowers
CRMJ
415
Week 5 Critical Thinking
Assignment (45 points)
Whistleblowers
TCOs: 1 Defining deviance, types
of deviance
4 Criminal behavior
8 Organizational deviance
Case:
UBS Whistleblower: Hero Becomes the Villain
January 2010. The New York Daily
News reported that Bradley Birkenfeld, an American citizen and formerly a
banker with the giant Swiss banking corporation UBS AG, is headed to prison to
serve a 42-month sentence. Charged in 2008 by the Justice Department with
conspiring to help wealthy Americans evade taxes, Birkenfeld pled guilty.
Ironically it was Birkenfeld who alerted U.S. officials in 2007 to the fact
that UBS routinely helped Americans hide assets from the IRS and triggered an
investigation that revealed the biggest tax evasion scheme in U.S. history.
Birkenfeld discovered an internal
bank document in 2005 that revealed UBS wasn’t in compliance with U.S. tax
laws. He reported his discovery to his supervisors and was then fired. Unable
to get a financial settlement for his dismissal from the bank, eventually he
voluntarily started talking to the SEC and the IRS about the bank’s efforts to
help Americans evade taxes. He provided extensive documentation of UBS’s strategies
for avoiding detection of its illegal practices. With Birkenfeld’s assistance
U.S. investigators uncovered $20 billion in taxpayer assets hidden overseas and
federal criminal charges were brought against UBS. UBS pleaded guilty to its
role in the tax evasion scheme, paid a $780 million dollar fine and was forced
to reveal the names of 4,450 American clients to the Justice Department; less
than 25 percent of the 19,000 American accounts the bank admitted to keeping
secret from U.S. tax officials.
Even though, as officials admit,
the massive fraud would not have come to light without him, Birkenfeld did not
fully disclose his own complicity in the tax evasion scheme when he first
contacted American officials. His reward for blowing the whistle was a criminal
indictment and nearly three years in federal prison. The bank meanwhile bought
its way out of the scandal, which reached as far as the Whitehouse: UBS donated
$540,000 to President Obama’s presidential campaign and Attorney General Eric
Holder had to recuse himself from the case because he once served as a lawyer
for the Swiss bank. As the Daily News observed, the Birkenfeld case exposed a
lot more than just hidden bank accounts.
Assignment:
Analyze this case using course concepts we have studied so far. Write an essay
that answers these three question: 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 Cited 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 by one
minute before midnight on the last Sunday of Week 5. Please submit it through
the Week 5 drop box.
Grading:
Quality of analysis (use of
course concepts and reasoning) 35 points
Quality of editing (APA
citations, free from spelling, grammar errors) 6 points
Quality of presentation
(subheadings and paragraphing) 4 points
Total points available 45 points
CRMJ 415 Week 7 Assignment
Critical Thinking-Mental Disorder and Social Control
CRMJ
415
Week 7 Critical Thinking Assignment
(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 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. Asperger’s 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 them stick out in
society.
November 2006. The New York Times
reported a story with this headline: “Man obsessed with trains again runs afoul
of the law”. Daniel McCollum, age 41, who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, had
already been arrested many times over the last 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, North Carolina.
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 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 the 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 I.D. 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 Cited 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 by one
minute before midnight on the last Sunday of Week 7. Please submit it through
the Week 7 drop box. Note: No late submissions are permitted for We4ek 7
assignments except if you meet DeVry’s policy for emergency conditions.
Grading:
Quality of analysis (use of
course concepts and reasoning) 40 points
Quality of editing (APA
citations, free from spelling, grammar errors) 6 points
Quality of presentation
(subheadings and paragraphing) 4 points
Total points available 50 points
CRMJ 415 Course Project
CRMJ
415 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 terminal course objectives.
The topic that you choose will relate to at least one additional terminal
course objective.
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
drop boxes for the specified weeks. Look for detailed instructions in the
Assignment section 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
Review 155 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 pt. 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 150-200
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 “cults” resulted in 4.35 million hits. I scanned the first
three pages of links and observed that there were at least ten 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, David (2010).
Social Psychology 10th Edition.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
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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 drop box by not 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 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 pt. font.
Graded Product. Write summary 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: 271-273). 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 non-compliance by
members, which would represent another form of deviance from the group norms
within the cult.
References Cited
Gardner, M (1997).
“Heaven’s Gate: the UFO cult of Bo and Peep” in Skeptical Inquirer,
July/August, pp. 15-17.
Myers, David (2010).
Social Psychology 10th Edition.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Unknown (2000).
Ugandan sect commits fiery mass suicide. (2000, April). The Christian
Century, 117(11), 386. Retrieved April 6, 2010, from EBSCOHost database.
(Document ID: 52220735).
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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 drop box by not 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 limit 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 1000 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 pt. 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 more-or-less 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
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Suggested Section Subheading
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Comments
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One page
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Title page
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Title of paper and your name
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Contents of your Week 1
assignment,
Topic Choice |
Introduction
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What topic did you choose and
what is the state of knowledge about it?
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Contents of your Week 2
assignment Short
Article Analysis plus six additional articles-length as needed |
Article Descriptions
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Description of the contents of
nine articles you have collected.
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At least three paragraphs
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Analysis and Findings
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What are the themes in your
group of articles? What theories of deviance do they represent?
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At least two paragraphs
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Conclusions
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What have you learned about
your subject from your literature review?
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Length as needed
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References Cited.
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APA format is required
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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 drop box by not later than the close of Week 6.
CRMJ 415 COMPLETE COURSE
CRMJ415 COMPLETE COURSE
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