WHAT TO DO: Write a proposal – Proposals should include a research question or topic, why this topic is important for research, policy, or practice, and a basic outline or summary discussion of the papers argument. The paper must have an argument; the paper should not be a simple summary of a topic CHOOSE A TOPIC TO WRITE ABOUT: – Papers may combine policing or a salient feature of the police role (e.g. surveillance, force, legitimacy, discretion) with a students particular interests (e.g. race, probation and parole, procedural justice, gender, youth, prisons, schools, violence, etc.) to consider other facets of the criminal justice system and society more broadly.