A final, major research paper will be due at the end of Week 8. Students must submit a proposed topic for approval by Sunday at 11: 59 pm of week 1. This paper should address both a selected transnational crime group (you can pick one of those covered in the class), but focus on one of its most lucrative and prolific criminal enterprises. You should address two important factors in transnational crime, group and enterprise, in addition, the criminal threat and the steps that are necessary to combat it. You may not write your paper on one of the criminal episodes you covered in any of the smaller bi-weekly papers during the course. However, this final paper should include all of the criteria required in the other, smaller, bi-weekly papers in the course, including the region of origin, history and expansion of the selected transnational crime group, how it came to engage in the criminal enterprise you have chosen, and how the two have expanded together in recent years, if at all.
Create a summary of your paper and findings into a PowerPoint presentation.
The final paper is worth 60 points and the Presentation is worth 10pts. This paper should be be ten (10) to fourteen (14) pages, double spaced, (does not include title page, table of contents and source references; all of which are required). The paper must be APA compliant, including source references. All pages must have page numbers, as well as an introduction and conclusion, titled as such, and main body and sub-sections with appropriate titles. As well, an abstract is required for this paper, in addition to an introduction. Abstracts and introductions are not the same things, so if you are unfamiliar with the different types of abstracts and how to write them, additional research into that should be done.
Your papers will be going through Turnitin, a plagiarism detection tool when you submit to the course assignment folder. It is highly recommended that you turn your paper in earlier than the deadline so you may respond to necessary adjustments if your originality rating is not 24% or lower. No similarity rating above 24% will be accepted.
The Final Paper and PowerPoint Presentation is due to the assignments area Sunday, 11:59 pm of Week 8.