Origins of Crime: Biological, Developmental, or Situational
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Origins of Crime: Biological, Developmental, or Situational?
[WLOs: 3, 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]
Prior to beginning the assignment, review Chapters 4 and 5 in your textbook, where risk factors for criminal behavior are covered from a biological, developmental, and situational perspective. Keeping your own client in mind (that you chose for your final paper), please read the chapters and in this assignment please cover the following:
    Assess the role (briefly) that all three (biological, developmental, and situational) perspectives play in influencing criminal behavior.
    Choose one of the three perspectives (biological, developmental, or situational).
    Evaluate the relationship between your chosen perspective and criminal behavior.
    Illustrate a link between your clients crimes and your chosen perspective based on the client you chose for your Comprehensive Case Study Report Final Paper.
Be sure to use examples from the textbook and your clients case to support your assertions.
The Origins of Crime: Biological, Developmental, or Situational? paper
    Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Centers APA Style (Links to an external site.)
    Must include a separate title page with the following:
o    Title of paper,
o    Students name
o    Course name and number
o    Instructors name
o    Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
    Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
    Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
o    For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
    Must use at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed, credible source in addition to the course text.
o    The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
    Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Centers Citing Within Your Paper

Select one of the 5 companies from your investment project for this assignment. Download the last 3 yrs Income Statement/Earnings Report and conduct the following:

Conduct a trend analysis in excel of the companys growth or decline in revenues and expenses over the last 3 years (2015-2019).
In excel your trend analysis should include all the line items on the Income Statement along with %.
Highlight the line items which are the highest expense for that company.
Create a column called 2020 and forecast the companys 2020 year-end income and expenses based on the trend analysis for the last 3 yrs.
You may want to also consider the following for the forecast:
Has the company reported a decline in sales due to COVID-19 for Q1?
If the company reported a decline in sales for Q1 make an assumption that the average annual growth will decline by that amount for the rest of the year.
You can either make the decision to adjust cost of goods sold or not adjust cost of goods if you believe the company will be stuck with inventory.
Research to see if there has been redundancies or furlough and adjust employee compensation by the % of redundancies and furlough.
Determine whether all other line items will remain the same.
You may make additional adjustments to your numbers based on your research.

Write a one-page summary of your assessment of the company’s performance over the last 3yrs. Please indicate areas where you believe the company could improve upon to increase profitability. Also include your forecast of the company’s 2020 year-end Total Revenues, Expenses and Profit. Include the assumptions used for these estimates.

You can find the multi-year financials on the investor tab on each companys website. You may also find it on Market Watch or the SECs website.