Does gun control reduce gun violence

Your goal
in this paper
is to
explain
what answer
professional sociologists
give to
the question you chose at the beginning of
the semester.
Remember that the goal is not to express your own opinion but to explain
the
sociological
answer
to
the question.
You will be drawing this information from the
four
scholarly, peer-reviewed sources that you have been researching. Your paper is to be
roughly
750
–
1000
words.
In addition, a “Works Cited” page must be
provided that is
not
a part of the above word count.
Most importantly, you are to be writing
your answer as a synthesis of the articles
that you have
read, not as a summary of each
respective article.
Your focus in writing this paper is not to summarize the articles you
have read but to answer the question you chose at the beginning of the semester
and to do so
as a sociologist would
answer
or has answered the question based on scholarly, peer-reviewed
articles.
Please use the checklist below to ensure that you have
completed all the necessary components of the assignment.
-I have at least
four
academic article sources
(you may
choose to have more if you wish), all
four
of my sources are scholarly, peer-reviewed sources, None of my sources come from a popular source
such as
The New York Times, The Washington
Post,
any other newspaper,
Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS,
MSNBC, any other TV station,
Wikipedia,
the ACLU,
blog sites, any other website that does not provide peer-reviewed journal articles,
government sites, dissertations, textbooks, magazines,
or any other sources that are not peer-reviewed including “apa.org” and “asanet.org.”
None of my sources is a book review. None of my sources come from the “Psychology Today”
or “ASANTE”
websites.
None of my sources come from government websites. My citations are listed in alphabetical order.
My paper is
750
–
1000
words.
I have written my paper as a
synthesis
of the materials I have read, not a summary.
My paper answers the question I chose
using sociological thought/the
sociological imagination.
My paper answers the question
I chose at the beginning of the semester and does so using
social science
literature
from journals.
My paper is written based on sociological research, not popular sources or my own opinion.
I have a works cited page at the end of my paper
that is
not included
in my
750
–
1000 word count