Scholarly Paper 3 Instructions
CRM 220
Module 8
The U.S. Department of Justices organizational structure changed after 9/11/01. One section
that was added is the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division
of the Department of Justice. Combatting cybercrime has implications that concern whether law
enforcement must disregard some Constitutional rights to protect Americans. Some of these
issues concern privacy laws and electronic surveillance.
For this paper, assume you are a policy maker in Washington, D.C. Outline the problem and
propose suggestions you recommend to encourage law enforcement and lawmakers to protect
Constitutional rights of Americans while continuing to fight cybercrime.
Your paper must be at least 700-800 words in length, excluding the title and reference pages,
and must adhere to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th
edition) writing format. If your paper does not comply with this format, you will lose points. You
may want to visit Purdue OWL for assistance with formatting your paper in APA style.
You must cite at least two scholarly references for your paper. Please be aware that websites
such as Wikipedia are not scholarly sources. You are encouraged to access the Universitys
online library resources to find scholarly journal articles, etc. The ProQuest and EBSCO
databases may be helpful, but remember to limit your search to scholarly journal articles. You
may also want to view the instructions for locating articles for Saint Leo classes. Please
remember to review the information about locating and citing proper sources in your syllabus.
You must submit this assignment to the Scholarly Paper 3 Dropbox no later than Sunday
11:59 PM EST/EDT of Module 8. (This Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.)
Your paper will be worth 100 points and will be graded according to this rubric.