The purpose of the Final Essay is for the you to compose an essay that demonstrates your ability to synthesize information from various sources and to explore conflict resolution.
Your challenge for your final research paper in this course is to present conflicting issues in our criminal justice system and ways how you can minimize/mitigate these issues. This conflict can be attributed to personnel, policies, procedures, training, etc. The essay must be written in a
creative and meaningful (thoughtful) way that is demonstrative of critical thinking.
Task
Write a five-to-seven-page paper addressing conflict resolution in criminal justice. Provide a
minimum of four (4) references using and used the current APA 6th edition citations form and
style in noting your sources. Sources which may come from the text book, journal articles,
scholarly writings, other text books, and websites will be used in this essay. In text citations in
your final paper is a must. Please don’t use Wikipedia sources with your essay. Your essay draft
is due on the fourth (4th) week of the class. Your essay draft must be a minimum of 500 words.
Failure to submit the draft will result in a 20% penalty from the final paper grade.
See the outline below as a possible way to structure your paper.
Please use headings to better organize and structure your work.
Paper Outline
1. Introduction (Introduce the overall content of the article to the reader. What are/is the
main conflict/s?)
2. Summarize the Main Points of the Article (You may use several headings to do this)
3. Summarize the Findings / Policy Recommendations and resolution to those written
conflicts (You may use several headings to do this)
4. Synthesis (Conclusion elaborate on your thoughts about the article and its findings