Newspaper article

  summarize a newspaper article, TV news report, or current policy debate from your city/town/state that relates to the content covered in this class (i.e., cause, correlates, and efforts to control criminal behavior at the individual level). o Make sure that you provide enough detail in your summary so that another student reading your post would understand the basic issue. Do not use quotes - paraphrase instead. This is about your writing, not the original author's work. o Provide a citation or web link for the source where applicable. This will allow other students to learn more about the resource if needed. o News reports of individual criminal events (e.g., recent robbery in your town) should be avoided unless they can be connected to a larger topic the concerns this class.