Posted: April 5th, 2015

Theorising Crime & Criminal Justice

Theorising Crime & Criminal Justice

One Oral Presentation and Portfolio:
Topic: Female Criminality: women who kill
Attention:i sent ppt and sample to you,you can write it like sample’s Structure?Thanks
An oral presentation/seminar (applying the theoretical perspectives/criminal justice approaches covered in the course and focusing upon a theory and issue of your choice) must be accompanied by a  portfolio made up of:  a reflective account of the research undertaken;  a summary of literature research/readings, analysis;  and a copy of the ppt presentation, plus any notes/materials.
What the portfolio is?
A reflective account of research
Reflective – what does this mean to you?

1.What should be included?

Why this topic?
The research process: what you did, how you organised your research, what sources you have reviewed, how you divided the work, any meetings/discussion, how you made decisions about the structure of the presentation and about the use/inclusion of various pieces/types of material; any difficulties in information search, structuring and organising your presentation, using theory, empirical data etc.
Literature review
Comments/observations: what you have learned from this process
Reference list
PPT slides

2.Areas you might want to reflect on:
Literature: perspectives, debate, gaps; what surprised you?
Your choice of theories/scholars
Your choice of case studies
Legislation/policy documents
Statistics/graphs
Images
Video-material
The way you organised and delivered your presentation
How your research and presentation could have been improved; what could have been included/excluded
Audience reactions, questions, comments

Two possible ways of structuring your portfolio
1.
Why this topic
Research process
Lit review
Comments/observations
PPT
Bibliography

2.
Why this topic
Research process
PPT slides and notes accompanied by your comments
Any additional comments/observations
Bibliography