Criminology is an academic subject that we took up from the first term until the third term during my second year as a psychology degree student. It is the concerned with the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behaviour in the individual and in society. Part of academic writing task we performed for the subject was the various criminology essay writing tasks that we performed when we still second year university students.
When we began to write our criminology essays in our second year, our lecturer gave us the option of choosing our own topics, but it was a challenging task for us because criminology was new and unfamiliar for us. So I had to first do some research about the easiest source of topics for the various criminology essay writing tasks that we would perform during our second year. It was a good thing that our lecturer told us the most basic tip in selecting a topic for any academic essay, which is to obtain topics from the topical outline for the general discussion about the concerned subject. So I researched and read the reference books about criminology and several encyclopedias in the library.
When I read the reference books and encyclopedias, I learned by myself about the next tip in choosing a criminology essay topic, which is search a topic that has been broken down into a smaller piece so it is easier in researching and writing about it. The general discussion of criminology is structured into several main fields with sub-fields, and main topics with sub-topics. So I read the section for the sub-topics and I was able to find smaller topics that are focused on single issues or concerns. From there, I was able to select my criminology essay topic of forensic psychology, which is related to my discipline of sociology.
