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Describe the theory along with the major proponents of the theory(s): assumptions, major theorists, major work. Be sure to cite.
Use this as a point of comparison while you do your literature search. They should either use this theory(s) or refute it and provide a different one(s).
You need to find one or two theories that tie to this topic below
The impact of sex and race on perceptions of poverty.
What is the relationship between sex, race, and perceptions of poverty?
Cultural Views and Values Drive Human Behavior
Prompt
In Module Five, you learned how cultural views and values drive human behavior. In this module, you learned how to explain the importance of applying theory versus using generalizations to explain behaviors. You will now apply this knowledge to using theory when analyzing criminal behavior in general. This application of knowledge will help you prepare for the submission of Project Three in Module Eight, in which you will focus on specific criminal behavior.
• First, review the Project Three Guidelines and Rubric.
• Next, in 100-150 words, explain how cultural views and values drive human behavior. Include the following in your explanation: 0 What is the correlation between deviance and culture? o How do culture and geographical location influence whether certain acts are deemed violations of law?
• Then, in 100-150 words, explain the importance of applying theory versus making broad generalizations to explain behaviors. Include the following in your explanation: o What are the advantages of applying theory to explain behaviors? o What are the disadvantages of making broad generalizations?
Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review
As is clear by now, scholarly research is an expectation for all discussion activities. Again, this research is essential for any of you who seek an “A” in any of my courses. In effect, I am asking for a literature review (or two) in each unit. As such, a reminder of how to actually write a literature review, and some practice, may be helpful.
Links to an external site.Links to an external site.So does Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=collective+violence&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C34&as_sdtp=Links to an external site.Links to an external site.
Submit your annotated bibliography AND literature review here.
Our topic is “Collective Violence.” This is a broad topic, so go in whatever direction you like.
Integrate and synthesize these articles as a literature review. See the example for an excellent tutorial. The only thing missing from this example is a reminder that a literature review should always refer to the methods used in the cited research.
Include both the annotated bibliography and literature review in your submission, as in the example.
Include references in ASA or APA format. These will be listed twice – once in your annotated bibliography and again, in reference list format, in the literature review references.
How long, and how many references? Again, see the example.
How important do you feel impression evidence can be now that DNA evidence is available?
Let’s say a person is found murdered in their home. We have on scene first responding officers and medical personnel, crime scene, homicide detectives, and then medical examiner. Who calls the shots??? Who should call the shots??? Does the command structure change through the investigation?
The Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, signed into law in January 2013, defines a mass killing as one resulting in at least 3 victims, excluding the perpetrator. On the evening of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire upon the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. Between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT, he fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, killing 60 people and wounding 411, with the ensuing panic bringing the injury total to 867. About an hour later, Paddock was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This incident was the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in modern United States history. University Medical Center of Southern Nevada,
Your assignment: In a MEMO format in 800-1000 words, please discuss the following about the 2017 Las Vegas Mass Shooting Disaster Response:
• What went well with the response?
• What were the significant challenges with the response?
• In which ways could the response have been improved?
• Fayol’s Five Functions of Management: (a) Planning, (b) organizing, (c) coordinating, (d) commanding, and (e) controlling. As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) how would you augment your healthcare facility’s disaster preparedness? Discuss which ways you would exercise Fayol’s Third Function of Management, coordinating into enhancing your facilities’ mass casualty, preparedness.
1) Analyze the nature of assigned crime/issue (Transnational Crime) with respect to (at a minimum):
a. Scope of the crime/issue
b. Financial impact – if possible
c. Human impact – if possible
d. Analysis of various countries laws dealing with the crime/issue.
2) Briefly propose policies that may be helpful in mitigating the crime/topic on a specific country or transnational scale.
3) A Holy Bible comparison/analysis of the crime/topic
1) Begin your paper with a brief analysis of the following elements:
a. Introduction to the country
2) Analyze the nature of organized crime in the assigned area (you may narrow the cope of your analysis through your introduction or thesis statement if needed)
3) Analyze the impact of organized crime in the assigned area on the government.
4) Briefly propose policies that may be helpful in mitigating organized crime in the assigned area.
5) A Holy Bible comparison/analysis of the nature of the organized crime system, the impact on the country, or your proposed policy to mitigate the system.
You learned strain theories. For this assignment, you will listen to an interesting podcast interview (podcast will open in a new window) conducted with Dr. Robert Agnew, who developed the General Strain Theory. During the interview, Dr. Agnew describes the potential physical and social consequences of climate change and then applies his General Strain Theory of crime to explain how climate change might become a driver for increasing crime rates in the years ahead. Play the podcast and then answer ALL the following-lquestions:
1 – How does Dr. Agnew apply strain theory to climate change? In the podcast, you will find at least 5-6 ways through which the climate change may lead to strain and in turn, increased crime rates.
2 – Now critically evaluate this argument about the relationship between climate change, strain, and crime. Do you find this argument persuasive? Why or why not? Support your answers and own ideas with evidence from the course material.
Original Link for the podcast. http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH39 Agnew.mp3? ga=2.54799470.498157693.1534199581-712097245.1534110086
Make sure you provide proper citation (in ASA format) for all ideas, including the podcast, included in your writing assignment.
Write a six to nine-page (1500-2250 words) essay that relates and applies the course material found in Module Eight to two of the online videos.
Videos:
● Behind the Wall; 2010 (video; 49:00 CC) https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2675576109
● Life Inside Out; 2005 (video, 1:13:29 CC) https://www.nfb.ca/film/life_inside_out/
Module 8, Section 8.2:
For most of Western history, the treatment of impoverished and imprisoned citizens was the
defining test of a nation’s civilization. If a society abused its least wealthy, tortured and
neglected its civilian prisoners, and killed its prisoners of war, it was not a civilized
country.(Module 8, Section 8.2, Section 8.2: Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice)
It developed from the public’s dissatisfaction with a criminal justice system that neither
helped victims nor stopped re-offenders by treating a crime as an abstract offence committed
against Canada rather than a transgression that occurred between real people. (Module 8,
Section 8.2, Restorative Justice)
Most psychologists and criminologists agree that “stigmatization increases law-breaking” by
alienating already marginalized individuals, shattering their self-worth, and encouraging them
to identify with an anti-social label. To Nussbaum, “using shame to control crimes is like
using gasoline to put out fire.” (Module 8, Section 8.2, Restorative Justice and Recidivism)
Write a six to nine-page (1500-2250 words) essay that relates and applies the course material found in Module Eight to two of the online videos.
Videos:
● Behind the Wall; 2010 (video; 49:00 CC) https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2675576109
● Life Inside Out; 2005 (video, 1:13:29 CC) https://www.nfb.ca/film/life_inside_out/
Module 8, Section 8.1:
“Canada doesn’t have to execute people anymore, just sentence them to neglect.”Allan
Fotheringham, Maclean’s, October 18th, 1976 (Module 8, Section 8.1, Section 8.1: The pains
of Imprisonment)
“The society has stated that the offender is unfit to live with others. The offender cannot be
trusted to behave properly and has been told in official terms, that society demands he/she be
caged and controlled.” (Module 8, Section 8.1, Section 8.1: The pains of Imprisonment)
Every period of incarceration is a slow-motion death penalty. One year in an American
prison takes two years off a person’s life, and five years in a US prison increases a person’s
chances of dying by 78% during that period (Widra, 2017). Similarly, Canadian inmates are
said to be “aging 10 years faster in the prison community than in the regular community”
(Cooper, 2021). The average age of death for a Canadian federal inmate is around 60 while
the average outside is 78 for men and 83 for women (Dimatteo, 2016). (Module 8, Section
8.1, Health Effects)
The results of self-report surveys indicate that victimization in prison is substantially higher
than that revealed by official data collected on security incidents. One survey of 117 inmates
recorded 30 assaults, 23 threats of violence, 6 sexual assaults, 4 robberies, and 3 extortions –
with weapons present in about one third of the cases (CSC, n.d.).(Module 8, Section 8.1,
Violence and Overcrowding)
This acceptance of violent ‘prison justice’ has meant that the sexual assault of inmates enjoys
a type of public approval and even comedic value (e.g., “Don’t drop the soap”), resulting in a
culture that frames sexual assault as an appropriate part of prison life (Struckman-Johnson,
2006). A public opinion poll in the Boston Globeshowed that half of the respondents
accepted sexual assault as a part of the pains of imprisonment (Sennot, 1994). This attitude
makes the public complicit in brutal sexual assaults, although several factors have begun
shifting public opinion on this topic. (Module 8, Section 8.1, Sexual Violence)
The transformation of a persons’ identity to that of prisoner’s can trigger a radical
re-evaluation of their own self-worth and can include mourning for their lost previous
identity in a manner that resembles the traditional five stages of grief in the Kübler-Ross
model of accepting a serious loss: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
(Module 8, Section 8.1, Social and Psychological Damage)
Solitary confinement is the physical and social isolation of an individual for 22 to 24 hours a
day, and it is considered to be a form of psychological torture. Known as a “prison within a
prison,” segregation is harsh, punitive, and a long-identified risk factor in suicide (Office of
the Correctional Investigator, 2014). (Module 8, Section 8.1, Solitary Confinement and
Segregation)
Between 1999 and 2009, there were an average of 91 deaths per year in Canadian
correctional institutions, with 35% being ‘non-natural’ – meaning they occurred due to suicide
(15%), overdose (10%), or homicide (10%) (CSC, 2011). An average of 18 ‘non-natural’
deaths occurred every year in federal prisons. Of the 150 cases of attempted suicide and
self-harm, an average of 13 Canadian prisoners will die every year (12.5 males and 0.5
females) resulting in a suicide rate of approximately 70 to 80 per 100,000. This rate has
dropped since the 1980s’ high of 103 per 100,000 population, and remains much higher than
the general population rate of 10 suicides per 100,000. (Module 8, Section 8.1, Suicide)