Week 3 – Assignment

Holistic Victim Restitution Plan 

This week’s required readings discuss intimate partner abuse and the residual effects of victimization. Looking ahead to your Holistic Victim Restitution Plan due in Week Six, develop a plan highlighting the major points of your review; this can be used in the construction of the body of your Final assignment. As with all well-researched and organized writing, you must begin with an introduction and end with a conclusion.

In your plan, you must

• Provide the reader with a clear direction in your introduction by presenting the major topics in the order that you will discuss them within the body
• Include a topic sentence (thesis statement) that contains the major ideas of your outline in your introduction.
• Include at least five major ideas that address the needs of victims of crime that you plan to use in your Holistic Victim Restitution Plan, with brief (one to two sentences) explanations for each.
• Identify how you will analyze the rise of victimology.
• Identify how you will evaluate empirical data regarding crime victims.
• Identify how you will explain the victim’s contribution to crime.
• Identify how you will critique the criminal justice system’s response to victimization.
• Identify your approach to creating a holistic plan for victim restitution.
• Summarize what has been discussed in your conclusion (this also provides a final opportunity for you to support your position).

The Holistic Victim Restitution Plan Outline

• Must be two double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.