After completing your first course project assignment, you should have a solid grasp of the crime you will explore and what the criminal justice response to this crime has been. It is now time to engage in some critical thinking about how we can seek to explain this crime.

Much of what we have been discussing these past few weeks includes theories that seek to explain crime. For this week’s assignment, complete the following:

• Identify two criminological theories that you believe will explain the crime you selected.
• Discuss (critically) how these theories can apply to the crime you selected.
• This assignment should be at least 2-3 pages in length.
• Your paper should reference at least five scholarly sources that discuss a criminological theory, using APA format. Students should seek out peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles from LIRN to complete this assignment.