Project: The Abstract
Note: This assignment is part of your Final Project.

Submit a 250-word abstract on your topic for your Final Paper. It should be from a historical perspective and related to a contemporary criminal justice issue. In the abstract explain the issue, explain the historical attempts to resolve or address the issue, and discuss briefly the how the issue is handled in the criminal justice system today. Include the components necessary for an abstract.


NOTE: you will pick a topic and thats what I am going to work on through out my class for the other weeks 

Learning Resources
Required Readings
Jones M., & Johnstone, P. (2011). History of Criminal Justice. (5th ed.) New York, NY. Routledge.

Chapter 3, "Medieval Crime and Punishment Before the Lateran"
Venkataraman, A. (2011, December 23). Why America is more violent than other democracies.

Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/12/23/why-america-is-more-violent-than-other-democracies

Walden University. (n.d.). Abstracts.

Retrieved from http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/402.htm