outline- rehab vs incarceration

The title of my research project for this course is rehabilitation versus incarceration. The main issue to be examined is to determine if incarceration or rehabilitation is more effective for offenders. We[DTM1]  can punish people for the crimes committed to get the drugs, but that’[DTM2] s not the solution for treating the mental illness associated with the offenses. Rehabilitation is an essential goal of the criminal justice system.[DTM3]  This goal rests on the assumption that individuals can be treated and can return to society crime free. [DTM4] 

As you are already aware, the Research Project for this course is divided into three parts. This is the second of three parts. By now, you should have already completed the first part, the Topic Selection Essay and have received permission from your instructor to proceed.

Part 2 of the Course Project consists of an annotated outline. The annotated outline is the framework of your final project and will include most, if not all of your reference sources. This annotated outline will give your professor a chance to see how far along you are in your project, and allow him or her to provide you feedback on ways to improve. The more you put into the annotated outline, the more feedback your professor can offer back to you. The idea here is to make sure you are on the right track so that there won’t be any surprises for you at the end.

In Doc Sharing you will find a PDF document titled Annotated Outline Format and an MS Word document titled Table of Contents for the CRJ-560 Project. These two documents provide the framework for the final project and will help you understand what is required. The project is designed in a way that will let you adapt it on a later date toward the formulation of a dissertation research project if you choose to do so. For those of you who are considering pursuing a doctorate degree in the future, this project is formulated in a way that will lead right into a doctoral dissertation study. 

On both the Annotated Outline Format and on the Table of Contents for the CRJ-560 Project documents, you will notice that some of the text appears to be a subdued gray color. Those are the things that you will not be responsible for. They appear only so you can see how your paper fits into the greater research project that you would need to do if you completed a full doctoral dissertation.