Order Description
This assessment aims to guide students through the process of researching for and summarising material that is required as part of the essay preparation process. Students are to research and prepare an Annotated Bibliography. This task will use one of the essay questions set for assessment three as the basis. The essay question that you select for Assessment 3a will be the same essay question that you will respond to in Assessment 3b when you write the full essay. Choose carefully. Some of the questions will not be covered in lectures until the second half of semester, depending on which question you choose you may need to read ahead to complete this task. The aim of Assessment 3a, the Annotated Bibliography, is to get you to begin researching, reading and preparing ideas that will help you write a well researched, planned and thought out final essay. To this end please follow the instructions outlined below in preparing your Annotated Bibliography.
If you are unsure about what an Annotated Bibliography is, then please read through the following document which will give you a guided explanation based on an example:
‘How to write an Annotated Bibliography’
STEP 1:
Select only ONE question from the options detailed below in order to research and write your Annotated Bibliography.
1. Why do individuals engage in crime OR deviance? Explain by comparing and contrasting Merton?s structural strain theory with Agnew?s general strain theory.
2. Choose ONE of the following areas of policing, and using concepts from at least TWO theoretical frameworks covered in the unit, analyse the strength and weaknesses of contemporary policing practice in your chosen area.
Policing drug use
Policing drug trafficking
Policing crowds (e.g. sporting crowds, protests and rallies)
Policing intimate partner violence
3. Choose ONE of the issues listed below and analyse the effects of ?globalisation? and ?neo-liberalism? on existing policy responses developed to address your chosen issue.
Terrorism and terrorist
Immigration and asylum seekers
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 will 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.
