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Instructions Your mid term paper will consist of three parts, each of which should have at least 400 words and one citation. The total word count for your paper is 1,200-1,500 words, written in either MLA/APA, your choice of writing style, and submitted by the due date for full credit. You may use your text as one of your citations which leaves you having to identify and submit at least two more from another source, and remember – Wikipedia is NOT an approved source of information. You shall not have more than 20% borrowed work, meaning your paper must be at least 80% original. You will be graded on your grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and on how well you paper flows. Refer to the attached rubric for specific requirements for this assignment. The following are the three areas for your paper: History of Community Policing: Brief history of policing, discuss the early beginnings of community policing, and clearly outline and define the three eras of policing. (Chapter 1) Understanding and Involving the Community: Define community policing, discuss the effects of lack of community support including the phenomenon of “bowling alone” and “broken windows.” Outline community demographics, the criminal justice system, restorative justice, and citizen involvement in the law enforcement community. Make sure to discuss civilian review boards, citizen patrol, and citizen police academies. (Chapter 3) Building Partnerships: Discuss the communication process, ethnic diversity, religious diversity, the challenges of dealing with diversity, how to manage persons with disabilities, age diversity, how to handle victims and witnesses, and the directions of victim’s rights and services in the 21st Century. (Chapter 6) Sample of an APA paper Include a cover page Title of Paper Introduction A few words about your research and then include a nice thesis statement. First paragraph should be your first topic, for this paper use a header to make it easy: History of Policing Then talk about the history of policing making sure to hit the topics outlined in the rubric. Brief history of policing, discuss the early beginnings of community policing, and clearly outline and define the three eras of policing. You can find this information in Chapter 1. Make sure to break your work up into paragraphs. Understanding and Involving the Community Define community policing, discuss the effects of lack of community support including the phenomenon of “bowling alone” and “broken windows.” Outline community demographics, the criminal justice system, restorative justice, and citizen involvement in the law enforcement community. Make sure to discuss civilian review boards, citizen patrol, and citizen police academies. You can find this information in Chapter 3. There is a lot of information here so make sure to break it up into paragraphs. Building Partnerships Discuss the communication process, ethnic diversity, religious diversity, the challenges of dealing with diversity, how to manage persons with disabilities, age diversity, how to handle victims and witnesses, and the directions of victim’s rights and services in the 21st Century. You can find information for this section of your paper in Chapter 6. There are many pieces of information to write about so make sure to break up the subject matter into there own paragraphs. Summary, conclusion, and opinion Wrap it up by telling me what you just talked about. I like to use my same thesis from my introduction and just restating it. For example, “This paper will outline the history of community policing, discuss the effects of two phenomena, bowling alone and broken windows, and highlight the importance of building partnerships with the community.” That would be my thesis then I would restate as follows: “This paper outlined the history . . .” just make it past tense and lead into your conclusion. Lastly, give me your thoughts of the research, what did you learn, how did this new information impact you, and what you thought of the project. |
