Criminal Justice: Human Rights
Research Question: Why do human rights violations occur?
Research Question: Why do human rights violations occur?
Day 1 Goals:
Day 1 Goals:
- Identify the topic of your research (human rights violation + location)
- Set up a project in Noodle Tools and cite credible sources
Day 2 Goals:
Day 2 Goals:
- Locate credible sources and cite them in Noodle Tools.
- Take notes in Noodle Tools that help answer your research question.
Know Your Sources! The Leaning Tower of Bias
Know Your Sources! The Leaning Tower of Bias
Locate Sources
Locate Sources
Recommended Databases
Recommended Databases
- ABC CLIO: Issues Database
- Global Issues in Context: "Click on Browse Issues"
- Biography in Context: Gale/Infotrac (Use this database to search for prominent people)
- Gale Power Search (Search all of the Gale databases at once)
Recommended Websites
Recommended Websites
Take Notes
Take Notes
- Step 1: What are human rights? What are human rights? Why are they important?
- Step 2: The Articles. Identify the specific articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that focus on the Human Rights violation you are studying.
- Step 3: Documents. Locate documents in the library's recommended databases and websites on your topic. On your tri-fold board, you will include a summary and analysis of each article. The analysis should answer the following questions:
- What is the history behind this human rights violation?
- How did it happen?
- Why did it happen (causes)?
- What are the contributing factors?
- "So what?" What is the significance of this human rights violation? Why does this information matter?
- Step 4: Violation (See Human Right Violation Project Overview for further explanation of Step 4)
- Step 5: What can be done? Steps taken or being taken to eradicate this violation and/information to get involved. Actions governments or organizations have taken or put in place to eradicate/help solve the violation (legislation, programs, etc.)
- Step 6: Visuals. Pictures, maps of the region of focus, and process for change/remedy/info to get involved. Cite all visuals.
- Step 7: Citations. Cite ALL sources, including visuals and graphs. Your tri-fold board should have a Works Cited list and in-text citations.
- Step 8: Presentation. Be prepared as a group to present your project before your peers.
Day 3 Goals:
Day 3 Goals:
- Continue to locate credible sources, including images, and cite them in Noodle Tools.
- Continue to take notes in Noodle Tools.
- Create a poster outline.
Works Cited
Works Cited