Forensic Psychology Research Paper
Instructions for Research Paper
During the course of the semester, each student will choose from preselected topics. Each student will be required to write 4-5 pages discussing their chosen topic. This paper will be in APA format. The research paper should consist of some history of your topic, the importance of the topic, research findings to support your view, and a current events example reflecting your topic. At the end of the semester, you will have to create a PowerPoint Presentation on the research paper. The presentation must be at least 10 minutes and not exceeding 12 minutes.
⦁ 4-5 Pages
⦁ APA Format
⦁ Title Page
⦁ References Page
⦁ In text citations
⦁ Submitted via Blackboard
⦁ 1-inch margins, double spaced, 12pt Times New Roman
Forensic Psychology Research Paper
Structure for Research Paper
⦁ Introduction: What is the specific topic.
⦁ What are you specifically researching.
⦁ Your introductory sentence should introduce your topic.
⦁ Introduction should include recent literature, assessments, disorders associated with x., etc.
⦁ Provide history related to your topic.
⦁ Outline the body of your paper by, in a sentence or two, writing what you will be presenting on related to your topic.
⦁ Body: Include studies that support your topic. You must include peer-reviewed journal articles found through the Mercy College web data base.
⦁ You may also include current news to include for examples that support and/or exemplify your research. This can be added, DO NOT make this your whole paper.
⦁ Your evidence should support the information in your introduction.
⦁ Overall, you are discussing what you have learned from your research about that topic, or particular part of your research that you found interesting.
⦁ Conclusion:
⦁ What have you learned from the research – sum about the body.
⦁ Any ideas for future research?
⦁ How does this implicate real world practices and current events.
⦁ Any bias or limitations to the studies that you found.
⦁ * typically, there should be no introduction of new information in the conclusion, you are simply tying together what you do in the body of your paper. Conclusion should generally be in your own words.
Forensic Psychology Research Paper
Topic Ideas:
⦁ Eyewitness Testimony & False Memory in Courts
⦁ Biases in Jury Selection
⦁ Civil Commitment
⦁ Police and Community Relationships
⦁ Effects of Media on Violence
⦁ Restorative Justice
⦁ Raise the Age: Juveniles tried as adults?
⦁ Child Abuse Prevention
⦁ Typologies of Sex Offenders
⦁ Typologies of Criminal Offenders
⦁ Association between Mental Health and Criminality
⦁ Role of Forensic Psychologist in Child Custody Cases
⦁ Assessments that predict future criminal behavior.
⦁ Race, Class, and Gender and Crime
Use APA referencing style.