What is a moral panic?
From these three questions, please select ONE to answer in your paper.
What is a moral panic? Define and describe the five features of a moral panic outlined by Good and Ben-Yehuda from the readings, and apply these features and the concept of a moral panic to the phenomenon of school shootings?
Explain the main principles of the consensus and conflict perspective of criminology? What are its strengths and weakness? Which one do you think is more persuasive and why?
Select three of Peels Principles of Policing that you think are most relevant to modern day policing in British Columbia? Discuss each of the three principles you selected, the meaning of the principles, and why you think these principles are important and relevant to the police and the communities they serve.
This thought paper must be between 2 3 double spaced pages (500 750 words), not including the cover page and reference page. This thought paper will be evaluated on: (1) the relevance of your essay to the assignment; (2) the clear and logical expression of your ideas; (3) arguments that are well presented and supported; and (4) the overall quality of your essay, proper citations and bibliography, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Some helpful hints include: (1) Make sure that you fully explain an idea; (2) Avoid generalizations or broad sweeping statements without providing adequate support or evidence; (3) Avoid discussing issues that are not relevant to the assignment; (4) Make sure that all your citations and conform to accepted academic standards and that your reference page is consistent with academic standards; and (5) Proofread your paper carefully to make sure that every sentence is clear and makes sense.
Papers that are not written to a university standard of English will receive a grade of 0.
Remember to support all your ideas using research and evidence that can be found in the course readings, the learning modules, peer-reviewed journal articles, books, government websites, and research reports.
You need to provide a reference list with at least three sources. You can use the readings from this course as sources.
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