Criminal theory

1. Discuss the historical and intellectual background of the theory and its causal arguments. This means that you must pick a single theory and that includes identifying the theorists. You cannot say that you are focused on control theory when there is more than one control theory. 2. Describe and analyze the empirical/scholarly/peer-reviewed studies that researchers used to test the causal arguments of your theory. This should include a discussion of how valuable the theory is at studying crime generally, a specific category of crime (e.g., violent/personal) or a specific type of crime (e.g., terrorism, robbery). 3. Address what you see as general issues that future research needs to examine. As part of this section, discuss what you would focus on if you conducted your own study. Specifically, discuss what crime(s) you would address and what hypotheses you would propose based on your review of the existing literature. 4. Address the policy implications of your theory in terms of a prevention strategy targeting the criminal behavior(s) that you could develop using the provisions of the theory you chose.