Criminal law

Most crimes applicable to citizens are covered under state or federal statutes. Upon completion of this assignment, you will be able to locate your state statutes, search within them a variety of crimes, and decipher their elements.Tasks:For this assignment, you are required to prepare a 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes incorporating researched content, summarized and paraphrased in your own words from the reading assignments for this module and material from your state criminal statutes. Do not cut and paste or otherwise copy content directly from the textbook or your state criminal statutes.Statutes are the laws unique to the state where you live and are passed by the legislature. You are not to use the federal statutes passed by Congress. Start your research on your state home page on the Internet. Look for a link to the state statutes. Another alternative is to do a search, for example, for Colorado state statutes, on the Internet.Once you have located the state statutes, you will search for crimes against property and crimes against persons. Another alternative is to search for the particular crimes after you have completed your reading assignments in the textbook.In your presentation, you will include:Five slides on crimes against personsFive slides on crimes against propertyYou will establish the elements of each of the crimes and analyze, explain, and justify whether the crime is a felony or a misdemeanor.In addition, you will include a slide at the end of your presentation for your references in the APA format, as is required for all Argosy assignments. Refer to your Argosy Handbook or APA materials to properly cite your text and your state statutes. On your state judicial branch home page, there may also be information on how to cite the state statutes.Submission Details:Save the presentation as M1_A3_Lastname_Firstname.ppt.By Wednesday, October 28, 2015, submit the presentation to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.Assignment 3 Grading CriteriaMaximum PointsSubmitted a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes—a minimum of 10 slides with content.16Presented from your state statutes information on five crimes against persons, specifying what makes these crimes against persons.16Presented from your state statutes five crimes against property, specifying what makes these crimes against property.12Described the elements of each of these crimes, specifying both a mental state and an act for each crime.12Analyzed and justified whether each of these crimes is a felony or misdemeanor.12Gave all references for state statutes in the APA format or the way state code specifies how to cite the statutes.12Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in the accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.20Total:100