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Terrorism occurs every day! News reports often include articles about events that impact the field of criminal justice – terrorism, homeland security, crime, studies, research, careers, new technologies, etc. Your assignment is to identify a recent (within the last 3 -5 years), published article regarding a current event which relates to Homeland Security course text; complete the Current Event Article Summary attached below, and prepare a short (max 10 slides) slide PPP to present Article Summary. PLEASE ATTACH FULL ARTICLE SELECTED FOR SUMMARY AND PRESENTATION.

Current Events Article Summary Assignment Objectives

• Analyze the role current events plays in the criminal justice field
• Discuss in your analysis varying theoretical perspectives or examine societal response to criminal justice applications
• Critique credibility and synthesize information from a variety of sources

Current Events Article Summary Assignment Expectations

• Completion of Current Event Article Summary form
• Submission of original source article
• Create a slide presentation following the for Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, and Supported references (see CARS checklist below).

General Directions

1. Select an article of interest from a credible source. For more on credibility, review the CARS checklist below.
2. Complete the Current Event Article Summary Form The template requires general article information, a journalistic style (who, what, when, where, and why) summary, and the student’s conclusion(s) or opinion(s) drawn from the article.
3. The Current Events Article Summary will be presented in the form of a slide presentation using PowerPoint.

Additional Information

There are several methods for accessing current event articles; here are a few strong strategies:

• Browse a newspaper or magazine, and include selected article with your template. If you select this method, ensure that you have other external sources to support the newspaper article; NPR transcripts, PBS.org links, governmental and/or official websites with the same information, etc.
• Go to google.com and search for your topic by name or use keywords that relate directly to your topic. When you get the page of results, go to the top menu and click “News”. Go to the Links page in the menu above. The first category of links is titled “News”. Any one of those sites will be full of current events articles that you can browse, or try searching on those sites using their search bar, which is usually in the right hand corner of the site. Be certain to evaluate your source for credibility and accuracy.
• See more on how to evaluate Internet resources using CARS below. Examples of topics you might find in news articles (there are many, many more…include ~terror attempts ~criminal terrorist investigations ~contemporary vulnerability assessment ~new technologies to combat terror~ terror police/program initiatives

Summary of the CARS Checklist for Research Source Evaluation

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