Crime Scrapbook Instructions

Attached is the Word document of the directions to the Crime Scrapbook:

Sociology – CRIME SCRAPBOOKS

The following is the Word document copy-and-pasted onto this page. After this, there is a section of “Commonly Asked Questions” that Miss Hickey (in the third person) highly recommends that you read. Additionally, visit the page on this Web site called “Crime Explained” to help you obtain greater understanding of the 8 times if crime that will be included on this project… please keep in mind that there are lots of other types of crime:

Sociology – CRIME SCRAPBOOKS

Miss Hickey

Name:

Date:

Period:

Types of Crime:

  1. Murder and Negligent Homicide
  2. Forcible Rape
  3. Robbery
  4. Aggravated Assault
  5. Burglary
  6. Larceny-theft (Non-auto theft)
  7. Auto theft
  8. Victimless Crimes

 

Overall Scrapbook Requirements:

  • § Scrapbook must be bound together
  • § Each section (crime) must have a divider with the definition of the crime at the beginning of it. Both a dictionary/textbook definition and definition in your own words should be provided for a total of at least two definitions for each crime. Therefore, the 8 types of crime listed will each be defined twice.
  • § You must collect 2 articles per crime PRINT or CLIP EACH ARTICLE! You must READ each article.
    • At least 5 of your articles must be from print resources (newspapers or magazines)
    • Local, State, National, or International Crimes should all be represented at least once.
    • There should only be one article per page (though some will require multiple pages).
    • See “Individual Article Requirements.”
    • § You must have a Table of Contents that lists page numbers and topics for your scrapbook.
      • Table of Contents must include the page number of every divider.
      • Table of Contents must include the page number, title and author(s) of every article

 

Individual Article Requirement (identify the following): *must be very neatly written or typed… if hand-writing is not crystal clear, please type it!*

  • § Name of Article and Authors
  • § Two-three sentence summary of article
  • § Type of crime
  • § Date of crime (they must be within the last 5 years)
  • § Number of injuries or deaths
  • § Specific location of the crime
  • § Monetary loss
  • § Psychological or emotional ramifications (answered in complete sentences)

SUGGESTIONS for an AWESOME CRIME SCRAPBOOK:

  1. Give your scrapbook and creative and adjective-heavy title (EXAMPLE: “A Collection of Felonious and True Narratives from American News Outlets”)
  2. Read this worksheet from start to finish, paying attention to all of the requirements.
  3. Use a binder or scrapbook to assemble to bind everything together.
  4. Make the dividers for each section early. Define all the types of crimes and put them in the binder      at this time as well.
  5. Select articles that you actually want to read!
  6. Wait until the very end to put in page numbers and to create the table of contents.
  7. Make a cover sheet that you can copy/print multiple and use for every article (you can use a mixture of typed and neat hand-writing).
  8. When you think you are finished, go through the “Overall Scrapbook Requirements” and “Individual Article Requirements,” and check off that you have completed everything.
  9. If you are feeling overly productive, go through and add a “historic” crime to each section, selecting crimes that happened a LONG time ago… like Jack the Ripper.

Rubric:

48-50 points: Scrapbook contains all requirements, is neat and organized, and all information is easy to find. The table of contents is complete with sections, article titles, article authors and page numbers. Each article has either a cover page or clearly defined separated sections providing all the “Individual Article Requirements.” Additionally, it has a super-sweet name. Student clearly read ALL of the directions and included ALL of the requirements.

43-47 points: Scrapbook contains almost all the requirements, is neat and organized, and all information is east to find. The table of contents is complete with sections, article titles, article authors and page numbers. Each article has either a cover page or clearly defined separated sections providing all the “Individual Article Requirements.” Student clearly read ALL of the directions and included ALMOST ALL of the requirements.

40-42 points: Scrapbook contains all articles, is neat and organized, but something is missing throughout the scrapbook (such as monetary loss) or the information is difficult to find. The table of contents is complete with sections, article titles, article authors and page numbers. Each article has either a cover page or clearly defined separated sections providing all the “Individual Article Requirements.” Student clearly read the directions and included MOST of the requirements.

35-39 points: Scrapbook is possibly missing an article or two, is not and organized, but most of the requirements are met. Scrapbook contains a table of contents and has clearly defined separated sections providing most of the “Individual Article Requirements” for each article, but something might be consistently missing from each section (such as monetary loss).

30-34 points: Scrapbook is missing some of the major requirements, such as the table of contents, section for crimes or multiple articles. Scrapbook still contains the majority of articles and the information required for most of the articles, but it might be difficult to find or not clearly stated.

29 and below: finish and resubmit

Commonly Asked Questions:

Q. How many articles do I need to have?      A. You need to have a minimum of 16 articles, 2 article for each of the 8 crimes. If you have 3 articles for one crime, you still need to have a minimum of 2 for each of the 8 categories.

Q. Can I print all of my articles online?     A. No! You may print some of your articles online; however, you need to cut out articles from actual print sources such as newspapers and magazines. If you don’t have any, I would recommend checking out your local Half Price Books store (there’s one on Bethel). They have old newspapers and magazines for really cheap–sometimes 25 or 50 cents.

Q. Do I have to read all of the articles?      A. Is this really a question? Yes. You will have the read the article in order to write your 2-3 sentence summary of the article that you must provide for each article. However, even if I was not requiring a summary, you should always READ! It’s good for you. (This message is mother and father approved.)

Q. If I have all the information in my summary, do I need to repeat the information?     A. Yes! You need to have of the “Individual Article Requirements” bulleted/separated out, making it easy for anyone going through the scrapbook to find each individual characteristic right away–even if all it is for that characterstic is “Monetary Loss: N/A.” This can be on a separate cover page, a note card you past onto the page, a box entered above/beneath/beside each article.

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