M1 Assignment 3-Criminal Element Research

Assignment 3: Criminal Element Research

Most crimes applicable to citizens are covered under
state or federal statutes. Upon completion of this assignment, you will
be able to locate your state statutes, search within them a variety of
crimes, and decipher their elements.

Tasks:

For this assignment, you are required to prepare a
10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes
incorporating researched content, summarized and paraphrased in your own
words from the reading assignments for this module and material from
your state criminal statutes. Do not cut and paste or otherwise copy
content directly from the textbook or your state criminal statutes.

Statutes are the laws unique to the state where you live
and are passed by the legislature. You are not to use the federal
statutes passed by Congress. Start your research on your state home page
on the Internet. Look for a link to the state statutes. Another
alternative is to do a search, for example, for Colorado state statutes, on the Internet.

Once you have located the state statutes, you will
search for crimes against property and crimes against persons. Another
alternative is to search for the particular crimes after you have
completed your reading assignments in the textbook.

In your presentation, you will include:

• Five slides on crimes against persons
• Five slides on crimes against property

You will establish the elements of each of the crimes
and analyze, explain, and justify whether the crime is a felony or a
misdemeanor.

In addition, you will include a slide at the end of your
presentation for your references in the APA format, as is required for
all Argosy assignments. Refer to your Argosy Handbook or APA materials
to properly cite your text and your state statutes. On your state
judicial branch home page, there may also be information on how to cite
the state statutes.