Describe the function of a victim advocate in a criminal matter involving an adult victim

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Assignment Content

Select one of the following topics:

•Role of Victim Advocate

•Victims’ Rights Legislation

Create an annotated outline of 3 to 4 pages on your selected topic in which you:  For the Role of Victim Advocate:

•Identify the certification process to become a victim advocate in the state in which you reside or in a state with which you are familiar.

•Describe the function of a victim advocate in a criminal matter involving an adult victim.

•Contrast the function of a victim advocate in a criminal matter involving an adult victim versus a criminal matter involving a minor victim.

•Explain how the role of a victim advocate differs from the role of a member of the victim services agency associated with the prosecutor’s office (federal U.S. attorney, state attorneys general offices, or local offices for district attorneys).

For the topic of Victims’ Rights Legislation:

•Provide a brief timeline of victims’ rights legislation at the federal and state levels. For the state level, select the state in which you reside or a state with which you are familiar.

•Explain how the passage of federal legislation on victims’ rights impacts state and local communities.

•Describe the impact of Title IX legislation.

•Explain how the federal Violence against Women Act has impacted the prosecution of offenders at the state and federal levels.

Format your outline consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

Criminological Research Paper

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Criminological Research Paper

Criminological Research Paper

Offenders commit crimes for different reasons. Criminological theories attempt to explain why crimes occur. For the Final Paper, you will evaluate the theoretical study of crime and crime causation by examining the crime of an offender and applying a criminological theory discussing why the offense occurred.

You must discuss both the offender and the crime in detail. Additionally, you must research the criminological theory to be used; discuss the theorist responsible for coining the theory, the year it was created, the premise of the theory, and how it is applicable.

Below is a list of offenders that were reported in the media as a result of the heinous nature of their offense. Select one of the offenders, and research their crime. You may only use scholarly sources when citing in your paper. Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.

First, select an offender from the list of offenders.
Offenders

  • Alex and Derek King (12 and 13 when they killed their father)
  • Andrew Luster (Cosmetic fortune heir who was convicted of drugging, raping, and videotaping assault of young women)
  • Bernard Madoff (perpetrated world’s largest Ponzi scheme, bilking investors of billions of dollars)
  • Charles Cullen (Most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history, killed patients with drugs from the hospital)
  • Cheng Chui Ping (Smuggled thousands of Chinese immigrants to the United States)
  • Eric Rudolph (Serial bomber responsible for several anti-abortion and anti-gay bombings, killing two and injuring 111)
  • Jesse Timmendequas (Raped and murdered a seven-year-old girl)
  • Joel Steinberg (lawyer who beat six-year-old daughter to death)
  • John B. Taylor (former Wendy’s manager who robbed and shot seven employees)
  • Kathy Boudin (radical involved in robbery that led to the death of two police officers and a security guard)
  • Ken Lay (Enron accounting fraud, wiped out employee-stockholders’ pensions)
  • Michael Devlin (kidnapped and sexually abused two boys while living openly as their “father”)
  • Robert Chambers (nicknamed the “Preppie Murderer,” killed 18-year-old woman in Central Park)
  • Sante Kimes (grifter who, with son, murdered elderly socialite to get townhouse)
  • Seung-Hui Cho (South Korean student who killed 32 people and wounded 17 others at Virginia Tech)
  • Susan Smith (falsely claimed carjacking to cover drowning of her children)
  • Zacarias Moussaoui (would-be 9/11 hijacker now serving life sentence in federal prison)

Then, select one theory from the list.
Theories

  • Age-Graded Theory
  • Anomie Theory
  • Arousal Theory
  • Behavioral Theory
  • Biochemical Theory
  • Cognitive Theory
  • Control Balance Theory
  • Critical Criminology
  • Critical Feminist Criminology
  • Cultural Deviance Theory
  • Deviance Place Theory
  • Differential Association Theory
  • Differential Coercion Theory
  • Evolution Theory
  • General Strain Theory
  • Instrumental Theory
  • Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory
  • Interactional Theory
  • Left Realism Theory
  • Lifestyle Theory
  • Rational Choice Theory
  • Theory of Crime and Genetic Theory

After you research the criminological theory and the case, your paper must

  • Explain the theory in detail.
  • Discuss the theorist responsible for coining the theory including the year the theory was created.
  • Describe the premise of the theory.
  • Explain how it is applicable.
  • Discuss both the offender and the crime in detail.
  • Discuss how the theory explains the actions of the criminal selected from the list above.

The Final Paper

  • Must be 12 to 15 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

You must discuss both the offender and the crime in detail. Additionally, you must research the criminological theory to be used; discuss the theorist responsible for coining the theory, the year it was created, the premise of the theory, and how it is applicable.

Below is a list of offenders that were reported in the media as a result of the heinous nature of their offense. Select one of the offenders, and research their crime. You may only use scholarly sources when citing in your paper. Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.

First, select an offender from the list of offenders.
Offenders

Alex and Derek King (12 and 13 when they killed their father)
Andrew Luster (Cosmetic fortune heir who was convicted of drugging, raping, and videotaping assault of young women)
Bernard Madoff (perpetrated world’s largest Ponzi scheme, bilking investors of billions of dollars)
Charles Cullen (Most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history, killed patients with drugs from the hospital)
Cheng Chui Ping (Smuggled thousands of Chinese immigrants to the United States)
Eric Rudolph (Serial bomber responsible for several anti-abortion and anti-gay bombings, killing two and injuring 111)
Jesse Timmendequas (Raped and murdered a seven-year-old girl)
Joel Steinberg (lawyer who beat six-year-old daughter to death)
John B. Taylor (former Wendy’s manager who robbed and shot seven employees)
Kathy Boudin (radical involved in robbery that led to the death of two police officers and a security guard)
Ken Lay (Enron accounting fraud, wiped out employee-stockholders’ pensions)
Michael Devlin (kidnapped and sexually abused two boys while living openly as their “father”)
Robert Chambers (nicknamed the “Preppie Murderer,” killed 18-year-old woman in Central Park)
Sante Kimes (grifter who, with son, murdered elderly socialite to get townhouse)
Seung-Hui Cho (South Korean student who killed 32 people and wounded 17 others at Virginia Tech)
Susan Smith (falsely claimed carjacking to cover drowning of her children)
Zacarias Moussaoui (would-be 9/11 hijacker now serving life sentence in federal prison)
Then, select one theory from the list.
Theories

Age-Graded Theory
Anomie Theory
Arousal Theory
Behavioral Theory
Biochemical Theory
Cognitive Theory
Control Balance Theory
Critical Criminology
Critical Feminist Criminology
Cultural Deviance Theory
Deviance Place Theory
Differential Association Theory
Differential Coercion Theory
Evolution Theory
General Strain Theory
Instrumental Theory
Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory
Interactional Theory
Left Realism Theory
Lifestyle Theory
Rational Choice Theory
Theory of Crime and Genetic Theory
After you research the criminological theory and the case, your paper must

Explain the theory in detail.
Discuss the theorist responsible for coining the theory including the year the theory was created.
Describe the premise of the theory.
Explain how it is applicable.
Discuss both the offender and the crime in detail.
Discuss how the theory explains the actions of the criminal selected from the list above.
The Final Paper

Must be 12 to 15 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

– Social Movement Presentation

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Assignment Content

  1. Social movements are usually caused by disruptions in society based on a need for social change. Social movements can start from a grassroots level, like the Me Too Movement, or from changes at a macro-level, such as gun policies by politicians.

    Identify a social issue happening in the United States today that is relevant to your interests and that you would like to see changed. You can choose a micro-level problem, such as speeding in your neighborhood, or a macro-level problem, such as racial inequality. Examples include problems such as graffiti in parks, gang violence, illegal immigration, gender inequality, police brutality, online bullying, destruction of community property, personal property theft, parking violations, speeding, improper disposal of pet waste, gun laws, or legalization of marijuana.

    Imagine that you are part of a social movement or a local community forum that has formed around this issue to address the need for social change.

    Create a 6- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on a social movement for change in your community that you could share with local politicians or other influential leaders.

    Include the following in your presentation, using speaker notes as needed for details:

    • Describe the current factors that are influencing the social issue you would like to change.
    • Provide at least 2–3 examples that explain why this social issue is a problem for your community or society.
    • Describe the social issue through the lens of one of these theoretical perspectives:
    • Functionalism
    • Conflict
    • Symbolic interactionism
    • Describe the social structures you would recommend to address this issue. Explain the need for these social structures and their potential impact on creating social change.
    • Explain how a movement for social change in this issue could affect society. For example, changes in gun control laws may reduce the number of single-person shootings.
    • Submit your assignment.

Describe the steps in the data management process

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Required Textbook: Hagan, Frank E., Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Pearson Education, Inc., 2014. ISBN: 978-0-13-300861-6.

Answer the Review Questions at the end of Chapter 12: APA Formatting, no plagiarism, answer in an essay format and like teaching others.

1. Describe the steps in the data management process. How does each step build on the others in  producing valid data for analysis?

2. Graphic displays have sometimes been employed to lie with statistics. How is this done, and how might readers avoid being misled by such displays?

3. What are some useful hints in reading a table? Although it is certainly not exciting, why is table reading an important subject? How was this illustrated by Wilbanks’ examination of interracial crime in the NCS?

4. What does the process of elaboration involve? How does such a process enable one to take into account (or control for) rival causal factors.