Combating Human Trafficking

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CRJ322 – Human Trafficking, A Hidden Crime

Unit 6 Assignment: Combating Human Trafficking

Due: 11:59 pm EST, Sunday of Unit 6

Total Points: 100

Overview: In this week’s assignment, you will elaborate on your selected topic for your Research Paper and

discuss whether or not the type of human trafficking you chose is being combated and if those

accused of this crime are being prosecuted. This is the 4th of the 5 assignments which will make up

your Research Paper.

Instructions:

Write a paper answering the following questions, giving a detailed explanation for each:

• Describe if your topic is being investigated and prosecuted.

• Define which levels of government are involved in the investigation and prosecution of this crime: local, state, federal, and/or international.

• What is being done to prevent this type of human trafficking from occurring presently or in the future?

• Do you think local and/or state law enforcement offices are providing enough resources to successfully combat this issue?

• Do you think law enforcement can do more, locally, statewide, nationally and internationally to combat this issue?

Requirements:

• 1-2 pages, double-spaced, not including title or reference pages.

• Must follow APA formatting guidelines, including: title page, running heads, page numbers, 12

point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, in-text citations and reference page.

• The paper must include at least three resources.

• All work must be your original work.

Be sure to read the criteria, by which your paper/project will be evaluated, before you write, and again after you write.

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Evaluation Rubric for Combating Human Trafficking Assignment

Criteria Deficient

Needs

Improvement

Proficient

Exemplary

(0-24) (25-30) (31-35) (36-40)

Content Missing or

inadequate

explanation of

combating human

traffic efforts.

Explanation of

combating

human traffic

efforts are

present. Details

are vague or

confusing.

Explanation of

combating

human traffic

efforts are

present. Many to

all details are

related to and

support the topic.

Explanation of

combating human

traffic efforts are

present. Details

are clear and well-

developed.

(0-9) (10-11) (12-13) (14-15)

Resources No resources are

used to support

the assignment or

evidence is not

analyzed.

1-2 resources

are used to

support the

assignment.

Evidence may

not be fully

analyzed or may

not have a clear

connection to the

topic.

At least 2

resources are

used to support

the assignment.

Evidence is

analyzed and has

a clear

connection to the

topic.

3 or more

resources are

used to support

the assignment.

Analysis of

evidence is clear

and well

developed. All

evidence has a

clear connection

to the topic.

Paper

Length

Less than 1 page

in length.

1 page in length. 1-2 pages in

length.

More than 2

pages in length.

APA

Formatting

There are more

than 3 APA

formatting errors.

There are 2-3

APA formatting

errors.

There are 1-2

APA formatting

errors.

There are no APA

formatting errors.

Spelling and

Grammar

There are more

than 3 spelling

and/or

grammatical

mistakes.

There are 2-3

spelling and/or

grammatical

mistakes

There are 1-2

spelling and/or

grammatical

mistakes

There are no

spelling or

grammatical

mistakes.