Saturday, January 2, 2010
Monday, June 23, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
THE CORPORATION
In light of the reading, re-watch the following clip....
Do you think the examples presented are harmful? If so, should they be classified as criminal... and, if so, who should be held responsible?
Why do we tolerate the behaviors of corporations? Would you support a category of crime 'corporate manslaughter"? Would this make a difference to how corporations operate?
please leave any general feedback on the reading and documentary.
Alex
Do you think the examples presented are harmful? If so, should they be classified as criminal... and, if so, who should be held responsible?
Why do we tolerate the behaviors of corporations? Would you support a category of crime 'corporate manslaughter"? Would this make a difference to how corporations operate?
please leave any general feedback on the reading and documentary.
Alex
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The Moral Enterprise
1) How does power affect definitions of deviance?
2) Is the media ‘free and open’ in the US?
3) Describe how media representations attach positive or negative (moral) meanings to particular acts/behaviors/events.
4) Consider the clips viewed in class relating to gang violence and drunk driving, and think about how media processes create moral meanings around deviance and crime. Remember, drunk driving only recently came to be viewed as morally reprehensible... As you consider those clips (as well as the images below), reflect on the following concepts....
• Moral Panic
• Generating ‘fear’
• Amplification of threat
• Justifying response
• Consequences of moral crusade
Reference and define each concept as you consider how moral meanings are attached to drunk driving or gang violence.
2) Is the media ‘free and open’ in the US?
3) Describe how media representations attach positive or negative (moral) meanings to particular acts/behaviors/events.
4) Consider the clips viewed in class relating to gang violence and drunk driving, and think about how media processes create moral meanings around deviance and crime. Remember, drunk driving only recently came to be viewed as morally reprehensible... As you consider those clips (as well as the images below), reflect on the following concepts....
• Moral Panic
• Generating ‘fear’
• Amplification of threat
• Justifying response
• Consequences of moral crusade
Reference and define each concept as you consider how moral meanings are attached to drunk driving or gang violence.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Strain or Learning
Dear Class,
Since you're working on your presentations, I want to make sure that you understand how we apply and test theories (as you will be doing through your presentations). I am asking you here, and in your presentations, to consider how useful theories are in explaining criminal or deviant behavior. As critical criminologists, please think about the limitations of each theory and consider how other theories might address the limitation of another theory. Often, social scientists integrate the most useful parts of a few theories to create a new theory... The best presentations will do this.
Please view the following clip and consider the following questions:
1) How does strain theory help to explain the deviant behavior?
2) How does differential association theory help to explain the deviant behavior?
3) Considering the limitations of each, is there a way to integrate the theories in order to create a more effective explanation of the deviant behavior?
Since you're working on your presentations, I want to make sure that you understand how we apply and test theories (as you will be doing through your presentations). I am asking you here, and in your presentations, to consider how useful theories are in explaining criminal or deviant behavior. As critical criminologists, please think about the limitations of each theory and consider how other theories might address the limitation of another theory. Often, social scientists integrate the most useful parts of a few theories to create a new theory... The best presentations will do this.
Please view the following clip and consider the following questions:
1) How does strain theory help to explain the deviant behavior?
2) How does differential association theory help to explain the deviant behavior?
3) Considering the limitations of each, is there a way to integrate the theories in order to create a more effective explanation of the deviant behavior?
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Study Guide Questions
Dear Class,
I have emailed a couple of power point study guides to your email. This format, I think, will be more helpful than a linear written document.
The exam will comprise:
short answer questions
opinion questions which need to take into account the course material
a longer essay question relating determinism and free will to the film Minority Report
I am going to post some questions here... Some have answers provided, others have not been. Please leave comments, queries, and practice answers...
1. What are the four factors which make an act deviant?
a. Violation of a social norm
b. Involvement of a person or persons in said violation
c. An audience to judge and evaluate violation
d. The likelihood of a negative reaction following the discovery of a violation of norms
2. Describe a stereotypical deviant and describe what forms of deviance and crime are generally omitted from this image. Explain why you think this is.
3. What do the ABC’s of deviance?
a. Attitudes
b. Behavior
c. Conditions
4. What is the difference between societal and situational deviance?
a
5. Give an example of something that is societally deviant but not situationally deviant.
a. Homosexuality
b. Rape as a form of genocide
c. Marijuana use
6. Define cognitive deviance.
a. Holding unconventional, unorthodox, unpopular or deviant beliefs
7. What is the difference between achieved and ascribed statuses? Give an example of each.
8. Describe a situation where collective deviance has occurred in the past.
9. List three of the four things Goode says that deviance is not.
a. Deviance is not a judgment of right or wrong
b. Deviance is not related to mental illness
c. Deviance is not dependent on unusualness or statistical difference from the population
d. Deviance is not defined by harm
10. What are the three assumptions that positive theorists follow?
a. Empiricism
b. Determinism
c. Objectivism
11. List five of the eight tenets of classical theory (rational calculation/free-choice)
12. What are two types of determinism? Give an example of when each would be a factor in determining ones actions.
a. Biological determinism
i. Genetic predisposition to alcoholism
b. Psychological determinism
i. Oppositional Defiant Disorder
13. If research could show that the tendency to commit crime is inherited, what should be done with the young children of violence-prone criminals? And what ethical concerns might come up?
14. Examine the merits and limitations of deterministic theories (biological and psychological theories of crime) in relation to the film Minority Report (write one page)
I have emailed a couple of power point study guides to your email. This format, I think, will be more helpful than a linear written document.
The exam will comprise:
short answer questions
opinion questions which need to take into account the course material
a longer essay question relating determinism and free will to the film Minority Report
I am going to post some questions here... Some have answers provided, others have not been. Please leave comments, queries, and practice answers...
1. What are the four factors which make an act deviant?
a. Violation of a social norm
b. Involvement of a person or persons in said violation
c. An audience to judge and evaluate violation
d. The likelihood of a negative reaction following the discovery of a violation of norms
2. Describe a stereotypical deviant and describe what forms of deviance and crime are generally omitted from this image. Explain why you think this is.
3. What do the ABC’s of deviance?
a. Attitudes
b. Behavior
c. Conditions
4. What is the difference between societal and situational deviance?
a
5. Give an example of something that is societally deviant but not situationally deviant.
a. Homosexuality
b. Rape as a form of genocide
c. Marijuana use
6. Define cognitive deviance.
a. Holding unconventional, unorthodox, unpopular or deviant beliefs
7. What is the difference between achieved and ascribed statuses? Give an example of each.
8. Describe a situation where collective deviance has occurred in the past.
9. List three of the four things Goode says that deviance is not.
a. Deviance is not a judgment of right or wrong
b. Deviance is not related to mental illness
c. Deviance is not dependent on unusualness or statistical difference from the population
d. Deviance is not defined by harm
10. What are the three assumptions that positive theorists follow?
a. Empiricism
b. Determinism
c. Objectivism
11. List five of the eight tenets of classical theory (rational calculation/free-choice)
12. What are two types of determinism? Give an example of when each would be a factor in determining ones actions.
a. Biological determinism
i. Genetic predisposition to alcoholism
b. Psychological determinism
i. Oppositional Defiant Disorder
13. If research could show that the tendency to commit crime is inherited, what should be done with the young children of violence-prone criminals? And what ethical concerns might come up?
14. Examine the merits and limitations of deterministic theories (biological and psychological theories of crime) in relation to the film Minority Report (write one page)
Friday, February 8, 2008
Extra Credit
Those of you who attended the Ferrell talk yesterday, please leave your reflections and comments here. For those not able to attend, the lecture was video-taped and can beviewed in the library.
alex
alex
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