2500-word minimum, double-spaced paper
five scholarly secondary sources, which sources are not assigned in this course. You must use three scholarly secondary sources, which are peer-reviewed journals or law reviews. (Use Google Scholar as a good search engine.) Non-scholarly sources are magazines, newspapers, web sites (unless you have received approval from me), Wikipedia and anything like it, and other popular media. You can cite such non-scholarly sources, but they will not count toward the required scholarly sources.
? Use the Chicago style for citations. Use footnotes, not endnotes or in-text citation.
? Grammar, style, and spelling will all count, in addition to the substance of your analysis and explanation.
? Must include a cover page and a reference page
Term paper topic : Feminist criminology and the US legal/justice system
How are women criminals treated within the legal system? This topic will discuss how women and girls are criminalized when it comes to
crime.
Topics to be discussed:
– Why do they act the way they do when it comes to commiting crimes? – What are the reasons that they are commiting crimes? – How are women treated in the courts, are they given the same treatment as men? – When women are arrested and charged for prostitution, when they should be the victims and recieve help.
Questions to be answered: – Finding the results of reseach that criminilogosts have conducted about this topic. Will these findings help show that there must be a change within the legal system and how they treat the different genders?
– What do women/girls have to say about how they have been treated within the hegal system in certain situations?
– Were they treated as the criminals in situations where they were the victims or could not leave that certain situation.
– Is there ever a sense of male power in the system?
MUST USE AT LEAST 5 SCHOLARLY SOURCES TO ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
Some sources that may be used: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/180973.pdf https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/70_1_8_0.pdf http://jaapl.org/content/36/3/421
