Assignment Three: Fact Sheet
- Available Nov 13 at 7am - Nov 20 at 11:59pm 8 days
Assignment Three: Fact Sheet
You should construct a thoughtful fact sheet that details some aspect of the American court system, including plea bargains and trials, sentencing, or the death penalty. This is material that corresponds to chapters 7-9 in your text. You don't need to cover everything, just some substantive aspect from this section. Make sure to read the rough the instructions on this page as well as take the time to look at these and/or other fact sheets. Let me know if you have any questions along the way. You have flexibility in how to design your fact sheet, but it should not be a traditional paper. It should come across looking like a recognizable fact sheet.
A fact sheet provides meaningful information about a topic in a format that is extremely brief and easy to read. Experts use them to summarize the “state of the art” about a topic. Fact sheets are used to provide an overview, to provide recommendations and advice, and sometimes to convince the reader to change their behavior. The focus is on providing what is essential and presenting the information in a way that is visually appealing and accessible.
Here are some examples of criminology and criminal justice fact sheets (use these to help guide your work):
NAACP Criminal Justice Fact Sheet (Links to an external site.)
Crime, Incarceration Down in 2010 (Links to an external site.)
8 Facts You Should Know about the Criminal Justice System and People of Color (Links to an external site.)
Addiction and the Criminal Justice System (Links to an external site.)
Enhancing Fairness and Effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System (Links to an external site.)
Drug Treatment in the Criminal Justice System (Links to an external site.)
Fact Sheet Format for This Assignment:
- The fact sheet should be around 3 pages long, double-spaced, not including a reference list.
- Use 12 point font.
- Some information is more clearly communicated using figures or tables, and you should make use of this in your assignment when applicable. Note that the page limit should not exceed 4 pages (not including the reference list) and should unduly take away from text.
- The fact sheet should be based on material from the text AND at least 2 recent (published within the last 5 years) peer review articles of your topic (from criminology and criminal justice journals, accessed via Ebsco). Information from these sources should supplement material from the text.
- All references used to create your fact sheet should be cited in the text and referenced on a separate sheet at the end.
- Make sure to use APA formatting to cite your sources. Here is a good guide to APA formatting. (Links to an external site.)
Steps in Preparing your Fact Sheet:
- Choose a topic. The focus is on some aspect of the American Court system, including actors (like judges, prosecutors), trials, plea bargains, court structure, or the death penalty as a sentence.
- Conduct a search of the literature. Use the CUH library online sources to search Ebsco for at least two recent scholarly journal articles. This will involve clearly deciding your question or focus, creating a search strategy, and identifying “key words” and “subject headings.”
- Limit the scope of the topic. After researching your topic to get a sense of its scope, you may decide to study the court system in general or limit your topic by focusing on a specific aspect of the process. I would recommend the latter.
- Keep the audience in mind. Fact sheets are written towards a specific audience. For this assignment, you should target your fact sheet to a fellow CUH student.
- Summarize your results. What is consistent? What is controversial and why? What is not known at all? What should be paid attention to? What should be reformed or changed, if anything?
Your fact sheet is due by 11:59 p.m. on 11/20/16.
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