Format: The paper must be typewritten; 5-7 pages in length, not
including title, reference or footnote pages; double spaced with 1” margins
and a 12 point font (roughly) Full references must be provided (see below).


Things to consider:

 Your topic should have a Canadian context. If you are interested in a criminal phenomenon in
another country or is international in scope (say, human trafficking or organised crime) then
your paper should include a significant discussion of the Canadian place in the phenomenon.
Also, given this is a sociology course, the orientation of the paper must be sociological rather
than, say, psychological. For instance: let’s say you’re writing a paper on serial killers. There
is a tremendous amount of evidence about the psychological predispositions of serial killers.
However, while you may want to include some of this, your focus should be on the social and
sociological explanations of serial killers and their crimes.

 This is an academic paper. As such, you must use primary references for your research
(journals, books, edited collections of books, etc.) not secondary references (magasines,
blogs, news stories, etc.). Primary references are scholarly research sources and as such
provide reliable analysis and conclusions. Secondary references typically offer only opinion
and conjecture rather than any type of serious analysis. Nonetheless, secondary references
can make useful examples of a phenomenon (for instance, mentioning the content of a video
game if your topic is how the portrayal of violence in the media contributes to youth crime).
The course textbook, for this assignment, should be considered a secondary reference.

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