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Essay Instructions: Victim Advocacy

Length: 3-5 pages (not including cover page or reference page)

1? margins 12 point font, double spacing, in-text citations to support references)

choose a victim advocacy group that you believe is influential in helping victims in our society. Provide a history and detail what they do to assist victims. Be creative use your imagination, think outside of the box,

Essay Instructions: Victims of Intimate Violence: Laci Peterson and Minh Dang. Two different cases with equally different outcomes. Please cite the following sources: Meadows, R.J. (2010) Understanding Violence and Victimization;Fleeman, M. (2003) Laci (Inside the Laci Peterson Murder);Crier, C. (2005) A Deadly Game (The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation);akonadi.blogspot.com + two more web sites that reference Minh Dang. Please include an abstract, brief introduction and conclusion. Also, subtitles within the body would be nice.

Essay Instructions: John Bodley ends his book, "Victims of Progress", with the following paragraph:

"If we realistically assess the present condition of the culture of consumption, it seems likely that this culture, too, will disappear- also a victim of progress, but after a very brief and preposterous career. The important question is: How will the culture of consumption go? Will it be forced to gradually transform itself into a new primitive culture, or will it go out with a total, catastrophic collapse. leaving a shattered world from which a new primitive culture will painfully evolve? Om either event, it may be predicted that in the long run, if humanity survives, primitive culture will be restored as the most viable human adaptation."

In this statement the author affirms his belief that the present culture of consumption is heading for a fall. While the exact nature of the solution to the dilemmas that humanity is presently confronting. At the same time, he asserts that in many respects we ourselves (as members of large-scale societies) are also victims of progress.

I would like you to address these three issues:
1) what exactly does Bodley mean by the term "victims of progress"?
2) how and in what ways can we be victims of progress if we are not members of small-scale societies?
3) what aspects of the life of small-scale societies should be part of the solution to the problems that humanity is presently facing?

Essay Instructions: Each student will submit a 6 page research paper, EXCLUDING bibliography page, discussing one or more of the theories discussed in this course. You should be able to relate your subject matter/topic to the theories discussed in this class. EX:

Topic - Unethical Behaviors of CJ Practitioners- consider developing your paper around theories that may explore police subcultures that relies on criminal behavior to solve criminal cases; discuss the theories that explore why LEO’s may choose unethical practices that border on criminal behaviors.
Topic- Victim's Rights Act Ace 2004- consider discussing/relating how or does the Lifestyle Theory and or Routine Activities Theory challenge the impact of the application of the Victim’s Right’s Act.

Students are to use their critical thinking skills to:

raise vital questions and problems regarding the theory or subject matter, formulating them clearly and
precisely in the thesis/abstract;
Gather and assess relevant information pertaining to the topic (s), using ideas to
interpret thoughts effectively come to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions as to the why the theory or theories relevant meet the criteria and standards;

Think open mindedly about the theory or topic being discussed and the application/impact of your topic,
discuss and assess, your assumptions, implications, and practical applications of your topic
communicate effectively in determining solutions to complex problems