Due 10/14

For this unit’s Complete assignment, write a comprehensive scholarly essay ( minimum 1500 words) in which you analyze, explain, and apply these concepts in the context of a criminal justice organizational issue. You must incorporate and cite, using correct APA citation format, at least (4) four different scholarly research sources. In-line citations must be used in the body of your essay, and all research sources must be fully cited at the conclusion of your essay. Correct APA citation formats must be used.

Explain the evolution and growing purpose of criminology in the past century

· Discuss “deviant behavior” from both a social and criminal justice perspective.

· Compare and contrast experimental criminology and theoretical criminology

· Why should the study of crime be considered inter-disciplinary, taking in to account biology, psychology, psychiatry and political science? Develop an example where at least two of these disciplines can be attached to a crime. 

· Why is victimology an important sub-set of social science research?

· How does a culture decide what should be labeled as “criminal”?