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CRIM 495 – Instructions for Research Paper The purpose of this assignment is to explore a real-world criminal conflict to understand how traditional models of justice would respond to the conflict and how restorative justice may be used to resolve the conflict. To complete this assignment, you will obtain information about the crime through use of news media archives, Lexis Nexis, and other sources as available. A GMU librarian will provide guidance on how to search and evaluate these sources. The purpose of this paper is not to examine actual justice system processing of cases, but rather to use the crime as an example of how the different theoretical approaches to justice can be applied to the crime. This paper should NOT summarize the way the criminal case was processed through the justice system (the investigators did this, then the prosecutor filed those charges . . .). Nor should your paper focus on applying the theoretical models to the way the justice system processed the case (the sentence given was retributive because . . .). You will develop your