demonstrate critical and analytical thinking, as well as be able to incorporate the information reviewed during the session and taken a neighborhood tour as a way to see firsthand some of the perspectives discussed.

This 4-5 page paper will be about your views on space, place, and our built environment as it relates to crime, our notions of crime, and our system of criminal justice. You should write this paper within the context of a student who has taken a class on criminal justice and the urban environment, and has read articles and reviewed materials that looks at the role all of the above have on our lives. You will collect primary data, by conducting interviews. You will use the interview data you to include in the essay. For this paper I want you to interview 2-3 people and ask them about their perception of crime and disorder in your neighborhood. You can interview anyone: a family member, neighbor, friend, teacher, police officer, librarian, even the local deli owner! You will use quotations from those interviews in your paper, but you will not use real names!! You will also use the secondary data, to give some context on what the folks are telling you. So, for example, if a person tells you “crime is at an all time high!”

Then you will be able to say something about that comment, based on the data you collected on crime rates in your community. So you will need to conduct research – researching crime, health, and other community data – to discuss the information given to you during these interviews. Please do not limit your paper to simply responding to my prompts. You are expected to demonstrate critical and analytical thinking, as well as be able to incorporate the information reviewed during the session and taken a neighborhood tour as a way to see firsthand some of the perspectives discussed.
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