The Reasonable Use of Juvenile Curfew Laws to Prevent Teen Crime

Background on Juvenile Curfew Laws

The thesis of my essay will be Juvenile curfew laws are reasonable because they deter crime by preventing teens from becoming both victims or victimizers" . you need to make a outline according to that... Your assignment should be approximately 3-5 pages. Your assignment must include the following two sections: Working Outline: Follow the Working Outline Template below. The Working Outline must include a full-sentence Introduction paragraph (including your own Thesis), as well as full claim sentences for your major sections/Major Supporting Points. Everything else can be in point form. Overall, the Working Outline will clearly show your plan of development. Annotated Bibliography: Format your Annotated Bibliography starting on new page within the same document as the Working Outline. Begin with a new title, centered at the top of the page (1" from top): Annotated Bibliography. List all of your sources (minimum of four scholarly/academic and/or otherwise credible secondary sources) in alphabetical order by last name. Follow all MLA Style guidelines for how to format bibliographic citations. Refer to the resources regarding MLA Style as posted in Moodle and in your Course Presentation. After each source, include a brief paragraph where you summarize, assess, and reflect on each source. Typically, these annotations need to be only 3-5 short sentences; the annotations do not need to be lengthy. Check out the Purdue University's advice on Annotated Bibliographies for guidance and examples: Format and present your assignment in MLA Style. Refer to the resources regarding MLA Style as posted in Moodle and in your Course Presentation. Follow the instructions very carefully. The Working Outline Template below is for a full-sentence outline. Any key points below that say “full sentence” should actually be written in full sentences. Similarly, the points below that say "point form" should actually be written in point form only, i.e., incomplete sentences. Note that the Working Outline Template is for an essay that is more than the typical three body paragraphs--I recommend six body paragraphs (two per Section). But that does not mean that the general structure has to change. You can still have three Major Points, but these now become Sections, and within each Section, you should have more than one paragraph to cover that Major Point fully.] Spend some time to carefully craft your Thesis before you complete your Working Outline. An essay without a strong, detailed Thesis is not a good essay. Use the posted resources to help you write a solid Thesis. Check to ensure it directly presents your overall main argumentative claim before you complete the rest of the Working Outline. It will likely take some freewriting, brainstorming, clustering, and critical questioning to formulate your own Thesis. DO this work. Remember a Working Outline is not the first step in writing a strong essay, but rather an intermediate step after idea generation and before drafting. Your ideas must germinate (i.e., idea generation) before they can be planted in rows (i.e., outlining). For the Annotated Bibliography, ensure that you have correctly identified what kind of secondary sources (e.g., books, periodicals, electronic sources, websites, government reports, magazines, newspapers, etc.) you have so that you format the citations correctly according to MLA Style guidelines for a Works Cited list. DO NOT use APA style! For the Annotated Bibliography, ensure you have a minimum of four scholarly/academic and/or otherwise credible sources listed, presented in alphabetical order by last name. Follow all MLA Style guidelines for how to format bibliographic citations. Use the "MLA Citation Style" handout prepared by the KPU Library (or another MLA Style resource of your choosing). Refer to the resources regarding MLA Style as posted in Moodle and in your Course Presentation. Remember that for the Research Essay assignment, you are not permitted to use more than one popular secondary source, i.e., popular media/mass media. Remember that, after each source, you must include a brief paragraph where you summarize, assess, and reflect on each source. Typically, these annotations need to be only 3-5 short sentences; the annotations do not need to be lengthy. Check out the Purdue University's advice on Annotated Bibliographies for guidance and examples: . also writing the feedback of my professor that I got on this topic proposal that's what say has written: I see that you have changed your topic to CURFEWS and why they should be imposed on teenagers/minors. Do be sure to consult scholarly/academic and otherwise authoritative secondary sources--you will find research in the areas of criminology, sociology, and psychology, but also childhood education. Remember that you will need to address the fact that curfews are almost impossible to enforce in a universal way. So, be clear who you are writing to: is it parents? Is it the government, i.e., you want the government to impose official, legal curfews for minors? You can imagine how unlikely that would be to happen, as many would see this as infringing on parental rights, possibly human rights. So, if your paper is going to rest at the level of recommendations only (to parents, communities), then you really will need some hard data and expert secondary sources to back up this claim. In other words, you don't want to present just a facile, reductive thesis that says, hey curfews are good for all the obvious reasons. Most people would know that already, and I'm not sure that is a real debate anymore. So, if you want to take a stand that parents NEED to do this, then the better your research/data to back this up, the better it will be for you.