Crime, Deviance and Society: Annotated Bibliography

This assessment aims to guide learners through the process of researching for and summarising material that is required as part of the essay preparation process. Learners are to research and prepare an Annotated Bibliography. This task will use one of the essay questions set for assessment four as the basis. The essay question selected for Assessment 3 will be the same essay question that you will respond to in Assessment 4 when you write the full essay. Choose carefully.

Some of the questions will not be covered until the second half of the semester, depending on which question you choose you may need to read ahead to complete this task. The aim of Assessment 3: Annotated Bibliography, is to get you to begin researching, reading and preparing ideas that will help you to write a well-researched, planned and thought-out Final Essay. To this end please follow the instructions outlined below in preparing your Annotated Bibliography.

STEP 1:

Choose ONE of the following issues, analyse the challenges and opportunities for improving the police or criminal justice response. Your analysis must use concepts from at least TWO theoretical perspectives covered in the unit.

• Radicalisation
• Drug Use
• Youth Subcultures

STEP 2: 

Once you have selected your question, identify TWO different sources that could be used to answer your chosen essay question. Of these two sources one MUST be a peer-reviewed journal article (Scholarly) and the second will be, either; 

• A second peer-reviewed journal article (Scholarly) or
• One newspaper article (Non-scholarly) or
• One government report (Scholarly) or
• One book chapter (Scholarly) Based on the above, at least one of your two sources MUST be a peer-reviewed journal article.

STEP 3: 

Having identified your two sources, you are to summarise and evaluate each source in relation to its relevance to your chosen essay question. The template MUST be used when completing your Annotated Bibliography.