The reason I chose criminal law as one of my top four inquiries this year is simply because it is a topic that has always had my interest ever since I was little. The reason I wanted to be able to research this topic is because it is something that I’ve always been interested in but I’ve never actually taken the time to find information about it and see what it’s like.
If I were to do a project on this topic I think it would be based around the psychological makeup of what certain criminals are like and how that affected their sentence in court. I would tie in my other topic of psychology to use my knowledge to best create some sort of knowledge and find a way to present my findings, probably in podcast form. In the podcast I would give backstories to each of the criminals along with what they were arrested for and what their sentence was. Once I did that, I would talk about how I went about researching each type of personality and how I personally think it affected the outcome of their sentence in court.
I think that this topic would fall under the effective communicator and possibly the global citizen competency. The reason I think this project could work with the effective communicator is because in order to not make each of my podcasts 2 hours long I would need to find a way to share my thoughts effectively and quickly while also making sure I’m getting my point across to whoever may be listening. Now at first, I didn’t think this could fall under global citizen, but after much more thought, I think it could because of the fact that within the different people I may be researching there are so many different beliefs whether they be religious, ethical, racial, etc. that may have effected how things were done in court and how their sentence might have been biased based on one of them and I feel like it would be my responsibility to make sure that I don’t fall under the bias.
In order to do this project, any sort of interview would be nice, but because I’m going to be trying to research different court cases, I don’t think anyone will be able to give me much information that would help me because of confidentiality reasons. I still think that without interviews I would be able to accomplish a lot researching what I can find.
When thinking about deadlines for this project, my goal would probably be to have a different case figured out with a podcast episode about every other week. Originally I was thinking of doing it for one every week but I have a feeling that if I were to research there would be so much to go through and since I would also have to plan out the podcast episode it would be a lot of work for just one week. Ideally I would probably study a case and a person for the first week and then plan my podcast and film the episode the second week.
Finally the way I think I would like to share my project is through social media. I believe that most people our age use social media almost everyday and if they are going to find information on new things and what to look at, it is going to be on a platform such as Instagram. For showing my website updates I was thinking of having a section on my homepage that says something like “website last update on _______” so whoever is viewing can know if there is going to be more information since they last looked at my website or not.
If I were to do a project on this topic I think it would be based around the psychological makeup of what certain criminals are like and how that affected their sentence in court. I would tie in my other topic of psychology to use my knowledge to best create some sort of knowledge and find a way to present my findings, probably in podcast form. In the podcast I would give backstories to each of the criminals along with what they were arrested for and what their sentence was. Once I did that, I would talk about how I went about researching each type of personality and how I personally think it affected the outcome of their sentence in court.
I think that this topic would fall under the effective communicator and possibly the global citizen competency. The reason I think this project could work with the effective communicator is because in order to not make each of my podcasts 2 hours long I would need to find a way to share my thoughts effectively and quickly while also making sure I’m getting my point across to whoever may be listening. Now at first, I didn’t think this could fall under global citizen, but after much more thought, I think it could because of the fact that within the different people I may be researching there are so many different beliefs whether they be religious, ethical, racial, etc. that may have effected how things were done in court and how their sentence might have been biased based on one of them and I feel like it would be my responsibility to make sure that I don’t fall under the bias.
In order to do this project, any sort of interview would be nice, but because I’m going to be trying to research different court cases, I don’t think anyone will be able to give me much information that would help me because of confidentiality reasons. I still think that without interviews I would be able to accomplish a lot researching what I can find.
When thinking about deadlines for this project, my goal would probably be to have a different case figured out with a podcast episode about every other week. Originally I was thinking of doing it for one every week but I have a feeling that if I were to research there would be so much to go through and since I would also have to plan out the podcast episode it would be a lot of work for just one week. Ideally I would probably study a case and a person for the first week and then plan my podcast and film the episode the second week.
Finally the way I think I would like to share my project is through social media. I believe that most people our age use social media almost everyday and if they are going to find information on new things and what to look at, it is going to be on a platform such as Instagram. For showing my website updates I was thinking of having a section on my homepage that says something like “website last update on _______” so whoever is viewing can know if there is going to be more information since they last looked at my website or not.