SOCU2253: Criminal Behaviour Analysis- Juvenile Offending- Case Study Assignment Help

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Task: Writing your case study – police briefing document This assessment task is designed to assess your ability to analyse and critically evaluate arguments and evidence. It is a practical piece in which you are analysing and interpreting crime data and applying relevant theoretical frameworks. You will need to weigh up the evidence and argument of others and contribute your own. The task requires you to situate yourself (or pretend as if you were) a member of the Crime Statistics Agency of Victoria Police and prepare a briefing document based on juvenile offending in Victoria. You are required to develop this briefing note based on 2013-2014 VicPol data. These data are available at: http://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?Document_ID=781. The VicPol data on youth offending is also summarised in The Age article included in your week 2 reading list and covered during our class on young people and crime (week 2). The Victoria Police have requested this briefing document from the Crime Statistics Agency because they are about to review their policing efforts in reducing youth offending. VicPol have asked the Crime Statistics Agency to make recommendations for policing efforts over the next 10 years. The aim of this review is to implement policing practices that will help reduce the level of youth offending in Victoria. In your briefing document you must use either Farrington’s criminal careers framework or Moffitt’s adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent dual taxonomy (i.e. the theories covered in week 2 of Criminal Behaviour Analysis). You may select just one framework to use in analysing and interpreting these data and making policing recommendations or you may choose to analyse and interpret these data and make policing recommendations using the two frameworks. Your briefing document must make theoretically-informed recommendations and be evidence- based policing that is based on research and findings on either Moffitt’s theory or Farrington’s framework or both if you decide to use both frameworks for your analysis and interpretation. The task requires you to analyse VicPol data using Moffitt’s dual taxonomy or Farrington’s criminal careers framework (or both). You will need to make recommendations and provide evidence for your recommendations through thorough reference to authoritative academic sources (each recommendation you make needs to be supported by evidence and linked to the VicPol data). You will need to make sure that you fully address the stated aim of the briefing document: to inform policing practices over the coming 10 years, with the primary focus being a reduction in youth offending. The briefing document is being prepared by the Crime Statistics Agency for senior management to help inform and guide the decision-making process. You need to write your briefing document so it has an identifiable introduction, main body and conclusion – the overall structure of your writing is a key element in developing your brief. Make sure your policing recommendations are linked to the VicPol data on youth offending and that you achieve the aim of the brief (to inform policing practices over the next 10 years with the stated aim of reducing youth offending). Your aim with the brief is to carefully lead senior management through the VicPol data and to understand your well-supported policing recommendations and conclusion. Do not use dot points to present your data or recommendations. The briefing document must be a clearly written, well-articulated brief and piece of academic writing. It should not be disjointed, so try and avoid dot/bullet points. Discuss each point as you build your analysis and present evidence for your recommendations. Make sure you write in ordinary, continuous prose. Discuss your points as you build your brief! Use quotes sparingly and only when they perfectly illustrate a point you are trying to make. Get in the habit of paraphrasing evidence and examples and avoid ‘cutting and pasting’ and excessive quotations – don’t let the quotes do the talking for you, do your own talking and explaining – include your own analysis, explanations, evaluations and recommendations, but make sure you support this through reference to the academic literature. Avoid stringing together quotes to support your argument, try and interpret the data, quotes, explain their relevance, discuss their validity and show how they relate to other evidence and arguments in the area of youth offending. As the briefing document is to be based on, and will inform, evidence-based policing, the assessment task requires a bare minimum of six references. You will need to include your prescribed and recommended readings as well as independently sourced academic references. At least two-thirds of your sources must be sourced independently from your own research on the topic for the assignment (i.e. not from the prescribed or recommended readings on myRMIT). Remember using sources should not be seen as an exercise in number counting. You will also be assessed on how well you use the academic texts in your briefing document. Points to consider include how the texts relate to your analysis and interpretation of the data and policing recommendations and how the texts have been used to substantiate your points and correctly inform your understanding of the topic. Make sure you set out your briefing document using the APA style (6th ed.) and use double or 1.5 line spacing. Detailed information on the APA style (6th ed.) is available on the course myRMIT site.