Essay Title:

Discuss the four main perspectives criminologists use in order to try and make sense of ‘crime’.

Overview:

This essay title encourages you to think about the four main approaches criminologists employ when thinking about the problem of crime.

You will need to use information from all the e-lectures and workshops in this module in order to answer this question.

You will also need to supplement your knowledge obtained from the e-lectures and workshops by making reference to some of the core texts relating to this module.

We expect to see at least 8 references used in your essay and correctly presented in the reference list at the end.

If you simply rely on the lecture notes to write your essay, then you will FAIL this assignment.

Introduction:

Any essay that you write should always start with a brief and clear introduction which sets the scene; tells me what your essay is all about. It should contain three key pieces of information:

1) The Aim of your essay: this will reflect your interpretation of the essay title.

2) The Rationale for your essay: this will reflect your justifications as to why this is an important issue for study

3) The overall structure of your essay: this will reflect how the rest of your paper is to be set out/organised.

Suggested Essay structure:

As the essay requires you to discuss FOUR perspectives then the paper should have four sections;

As the essay is 2000 words, you know it should be about 500 words per section;

As you learnt in lecture 2, each perspective has four core components , this seems a logical way to present each section;

As there are 2 lectures/workshop to each of the 4 perspective, you know what material should be discussed in each section;

Conclusion:

Summarise your work, do not bring in new information

The conclusion needs to roughly 10% of the essay;

Perhaps you could discuss some of the commonalities across perspectives.

More instructions:

1) Make connection between perspectives;

2) Make critical comments about strengths/weaknesses of perspectives;

3) Explore issues not addressed by any perspective;

4) Present your work clearly, accurately, concisely, factually, critically and persuasively;

Please see more information in the attachment files. Thank you !

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