For Crim 103 you need to start by picking a theory that is covered in this course and explain its main principles and key concepts. You will need to do research beyond the textbook for this information to explain the theory fully. Then you need to pick a general type of crime (it could be murder, bank fraud, sexual violence, domestic violence), not one specific criminal or crime event. Use this part of your paper to explain what that crime typology is all about – its definition, its nature and extent (some statistics about how much it happens), etc. Then you will use concepts and principles of the theory that you explained earlier to demonstrate how and why that particular theory says this type of crime happens. Some examples: Social Learning theory to explain domestic violence, evolutionary theory to explain sexual assault, psychoanalytic theory to explain violent crime in general.