A literature review surveys books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to an issue and provides a description, summary, and critical evaluation of these works in relation to the issue being presented. Literature reviews are designed to provide an overview of sources you have explored while researching your topics and to demonstrate to your readers how your research fits within our larger field of study: criminal and social justice.
Step 1: Review the Criminal Justice Impacts on Society: The George Floyd Case final paper assignment instructions and rubric in Week 6.
Step 2: Review the textbook and the other sources you used to complete your Week 2 Annotated Outline assignment. You may use choose different resources for this assignment than utilized in your Week 2 Annotated Outline assignment.
For this assignment, you will construct an APA Style literature review that will serve as the introduction of your final paper. Your literature review must be a substantive and scholarly analysis of the research articles you will use to support your assertions in your final paper. The focus of this paper needs to be your opinions of the research, its soundness, and the implications of the information that you will use in the final, summative paper
Your literature review must include references to five scholarly or credible sources (including your textbook) that you will use in your final paper. You may also use additional sources such as news articles, but these do not count toward your five required scholarly or credible sources. Be sure to use specific examples from your sources that support your research, analysis, and opinion.
Derek Chauvin was charged with, and convicted of, three separate homicide counts for George Floyd’s death.
In your literature review,
· Explain the facts of George Floyd’s arrest and death (e.g., briefly, what was he arrested for; how many police officers were on scene, facts of his passing, etc.).
· Summarize a brief, professional history about the lead officer, Derek Chauvin.
· Describe the research in enough detail that the reader has a general sense of the researcher’s hypothesis, methods, and findings.
· Evaluate research studies and papers.
· That is, rather than article summaries, your job is to describe and evaluate the research.
· Analyze implications of the research findings.
The Literature Review assignment,
Must be two to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to
APA
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
USE These references References
Freilich, J. D., & Chermak, S. M. (2022). George Floyd protests and the criminal justice system.
Criminology & Pub. Pol’y,
21, 3.
Fine, A. D., Oliveira, T. R., Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Trinkner, R., & Pósch, K. (2025). Did the Murder of George Floyd damage public perceptions of police and law in the United States?.
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency,
62(2), 333-382.
Martin, K. J., & Higginbotham, G. D. (2024). We’ve been here before: Reactions to the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests for justice.
Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Santaularia, N. J., Larson, R., Robertson, C. E., & Uggen, C. (2025). The mental health consequences of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis in Black, Latinx, and White communities.
American Journal of Epidemiology,
194(7), 1900-1908.
White, M. D., Orosco, C., & Terpstra, B. (2023). Investigating the impacts of a global pandemic and George Floyd’s death on crime and other features of police work.
Justice Quarterly,
40(2), 159-186.
