Killer Data: modern perspectives on serial murder Book Review
Yaksic, Enzo & Hickey, Eric. (2022). Killer Data: Modern Perspectives on Serial Murder, (Paperback Edition). Routledge. ISBN: 978-0367672706
Scholarly Book Review – The final component of this course is for you to read Killer Data: Modern Perspectives on Serial Murder and write a scholarly book review. For this assignment, you must cite at least five peer-reviewed articles, not books, in your review. Your scholarly book review must be between 2,250 to 2,700 words. For this assignment, you need to do more than merely provide merely provide a synopsis of the book. Rather, provide a scholarly analysis of the book and explain what, if anything, it contributes to our understanding of serial murder. Students who do a particularly good job with this assignment will be encouraged to submit their work to a scholarly journal. Scholarly publications are often very helpful in gaining admittance to Ph.D. programs. Doing this assignment might also provide you with an opportunity down the road to demonstrate to your supervisors at work that you have an ability to synthesize information into an interesting, evocative report. Also, scholarly book reviews enhance one’s visibility as a burgeoning scholar, make a contribution to the field of criminal justice, and most importantly, provide invaluable opportunities for personal growth. The instructor will provide everyone with an example of a scholarly book at the beginning of the course.
All scholarly book reviews will be submitted either by the student or the instructor to Safe for originality in order to ensure that there is not any forms of plagiarism, either deliberate or accidental. It must be evident that all papers are original works. If a Safe report reveals any evidence of plagiarism, the paper will not be graded and will be assigned a “zero.” Students should visit with the instructor before the assignment is due if they have any questions about this.
Also, if a student fails to cite at least five peer-reviewed journal articles and include these in the references at the end of the book review, it will incur an automatic penalty of twenty points.
Note the instructor will not, under any circumstances, receive late book reviews, regardless of the reason. If you do not submit a book review by the due date you will receive a zero out of fairness to the other students who submitted their work by the due date. Please keep in mind, this is an assignment that students are encouraged to work on throughout the semester; therefore, it is inadvisable to wait until the last minute to begin your book review essays.
Follow the writing rubric in Appendix 1 to understand how you are required to write the paper.
