Crime Abroad Paper

Crime Abroad Paper Guidelines

Scope: You will write a brief research paper on crime in a foreign city or country. Your paper

should contain relevant information about your location (its location, some brief history, etc.)

and what type of crime it is currently experiencing.

You should be able to provide crime statistics and some time-trend data that indicates if crime

has been relatively even over time, whether it has decreased, or whether it has increased.

You should also provide information on what the national and/or local government is doing to

tackle this crime.

Requirement: Your paper must use at least three news and/or government sources to support

your claims. If you make a claim that is not common knowledge, you must cite this fact. Only

respectable sources will be accepted: no blatantly biased news or state propaganda will count as

a legitimate source. If you have questions about your sources, please let me know.

Your paper should be approximately 4-5 pages in length with normal spacing and a normal font

and type size.

You must also include a reference page. Your references and in-text citations must be written in

ASA (American Sociological Association) format. If you are unfamiliar with ASA format, please

consult the following resources:

o For parenthetical (in-text) citations:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/583/02/

o For reference pages:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/583/03/

Lastly, your paper must be submitted through BlackBoard as a .doc or .docx file. No other file

type will be accepted.