Students will be required to analyze a specific chapter (out of four chapters as

Students will be required to analyze a specific chapter (out of four chapters assigned by the professor) in one of your texts (Crime Online: Correlates, Causes and Context by Holt, 2021)
using peer reviewed articles to critique that topic. Students will choose a topic from the assigned list of chapters and write about emerging trends on that topic.
Students must cite at least 5 other journal articles to support their topic. The journal articles cited must be current and preferably not published before 2010. The article assignment should be written in APA style.
read one chapter from the following early in the semester to help you complete the special topics analysis assignment
Instructions:
Chose one of the following chapters from Holt’s Text Crime Online: Correlates, Causes and Context and read it:
1. Chapter 2- Hacker Woodstock: Observations on an Offline Cyber Culture at a Chaos Communication camp
2. Chapter 4 – Social Engineering as a Form of Fraud Mediated Through Communications Technology
3. Chapter 6 – Internet Child Pornography: Legal Issues and Investigative Tactics
4. Chapter 8– Understanding Cyber Interpersonal Use
Special Topic Analysis Assignment –
Instructions:
Chose only one of the following chapters from Holts Text Crime Online: Correlates, Causes and Context and read it:
1. Chapter 2- Hacker Woodstock: Observations on an Offline Cyber Culture at a Chaos Communication camp
2. Chapter 4 – Social Engineering as a Form of Fraud Mediated Through Communications Technology
3. Chapter 6 – Internet Child Pornography: Legal Issues and Investigative Tactics
4. Chapter 8– Understanding Cyber Interpersonal Use
The purpose of this analysis paper is to
• Ensure you understand and can appraise certain special topics and issues in cybercrime and the research that has been carried out on that special topic.
• Understand how to critically analyze and conduct research using other resources like peer reviewed articles, books etc., to support your analyses of that topic.
• Ensure that students understand current research about a particular issue in cybercrime especially as cybercrimes are based on new and emerging use of information and communications technology (ICTs).
Your paper should include the following information:
• A brief summary of the chapter
• A thorough analysis and evaluation of the chapter you have chosen based on current literature. What are current scholars saying about this topic? Use at least 5 (current- published 2015 to date, peer reviewed articles in your analysis. Remember you can choose to use as many resources as possible, the more articles you use, the better your analysis. This analysis and evaluation should include:
1. A brief literature review
2. Current policies regarding this special topic
3. What if any laws/policies govern your special topic of choice? Policies could include international policies, consider jurisdiction in your policy analysis. How do other nations control this special area/topic you have chosen?
4. Finally what do you think the future policy implications are, with regards to the information in this chapter? In other words, what policy or policies do you think may evolve from the issues addressed in this chapter? You should use other scholars and current research to inform your policy evaluation.

Paper formatting guidelines
• Use APA for citation, format and referencing, and for overall writing style
• Paper length – minimum 5 pages but no more than 10 pages – double spaced (not counting references and cover page)
• Minimum 5 peer reviewed articles properly cited and referenced using APA
• Peer reviewed articles used for the analysis have to be current, published from 2010 to date (no articles published before 2010)
• Check you plagiarism report and resubmit to avoid issues. You have three attempts to submit.