The overall purpose of the paper is to demonstrate your thorough understanding of the topic and the reason it is important to criminal justice studies. Basically, the paper should describe the topic, explain why it is important, and comment on differing viewp01oints/developments in regard to it. YOU MUST USE AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT SOURCES AND AT LEAST TWO OF THEM MUST BE BOOKS. YOUR TEXTBOOK AND WIKIPEDIA ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE SOURCES, although you may use them for initial background understanding of the topic. you are expected to use authoritative references. USE IN-TEXT MLA FORMAT FOR CITATIONS TO REFERENCE MATERIAL. the paper must be MLA Format, Typed, 12 point font, 2.0 line spacing (double spacing) 1 inch margins, 3 to 5 pages of text (not counting any title page, works cited page, attachments etc.) College student, Criminal Law and Procedure class