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A Guide to Writing in Criminal Justice and Criminology with 2020 APA Update
First EditionStephen Bernhardt; Nancy Sommers
©2020ISBN:9781319370343
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Introduction: A Guide to Writing in Criminal Justice and Criminology
Thinking like a criminal justice professional or criminologist
Questions criminal justice professionals and criminologists ask
Ethics in criminal justice and criminology studies
Kinds of evidence criminal justice professionals and criminologists use
Researching criminal justice and criminology
Using databases for research
Primary and secondary sources
Locating and evaluating online sources
Checklists for evaluating sources
Reading the literature in criminal justice and criminology
Active reading
Reading specific literature in the field
The process of writing papers and projects in criminal justice and criminology
Considering your purpose and audience
Checklist for assessing the writing situation
Organizing your materials
Drafting and developing a thesis
Revising
Revising and testing thesis statements
Editing
Writing conventions in criminal justice and criminology
Sentence structure
Word choice
Using visuals and presenting data
Integrating, citing, and documenting sources
Avoiding plagiarism and recognizing intellectual property
Quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing sources
In-text citations in APA style
Reference section in APA style
APA manuscript format
Genres of writing in criminal justice and criminology
Abstract
Annotated bibliography
Argument or position paper
Analytical paper
Case brief
Administrative report
Investigative report
Literature review
Professional memo
Policy memo
Poster presentation
Research proposal
Research paper: Original empirical research
Glossary of vocabulary in criminal justice and criminology
References
Resources for reading and writing in criminal justice and criminology
Practice activities
Practice activity: Formulating a research question about a topic
Practice activity: Locating important information in empirical research articles with IMRaD
Practice activity: Questions that criminal justice professionals and criminologists can answer
Practice activity: Understanding the difference between qualitative and quantitative data
Practice activity: Evaluating online information
Practice activity: Locating and evaluating sources
Practice activity: Locating online articles in your library’s database
Practice activity: Are my beliefs about crime supported in the literature?
Practice activity: Adding important details to an investigative report
Practice activity: Editing in APA style
Practice activity: Formatting citations in APA style
Practice activity: In-text citations in APA style
Practice activity: Developing thesis statements
Answers to selected activities
Sample student writing: Criminal justice and criminology
Administrative report: Crime in Leesburg, Virginia
Annotated bibliography: The Fourth Amendment and Internet Surveillance
Case study: DEA Regulatory Authority and the Opioid Epidemic: State-Corporate Crime
Literature review: Female Human Trafficking: Origins and Implications for Identity
More help with documentation: APA style
APA-style reference list: Additional examples
Editing strategies
Subject-verb agreement
Pronoun agreement, reference, and case
Strong verbs
Sentence fragments
Run-on sentences
Distracting shifts
Parallel structure
Clear, uncluttered sentences
Sentence emphasis
Commas
Apostrophes
Quotation marks