Posted: April 17th, 2015

Communities and Crime

This paper needs to correspond with either a newspaper article from either the New York Times, LA Times,St. Louis Post or from a weekly magazine report such as Newsweek or the Times within the last 3 months.Please identify and discuss what type of implicit theory of crime explanation/causation is relayed in the report in an effort to explain the events/behaviors. How is the crime theorized (implicitly or explicitly)? Please offer your own analysis of the event(s) reported in the article.

Alternatively, you may do an analysis of how the media reports the events, e.g., does the language used in the article (or the article’s emphasis) present the events in any particular light? The key here is to achieve a nice balance between description (of your example) and analysis while trying to explain the event(s) or reporting of those events. Please attach a copy of the article that you choose to the paper.