Today's classes are:
9:15 - 11:50 A Block Criminology
12:30 - 3:05 D Block Social and Environmental Sciences
A Block Criminology - Today we are going to the library to work on our next blog / journal entry. Below, you'll find a question on hyper-masculinity, male socialization, and sexual assault. I will need you to answer that question and then find a news story about a sexual assault. You will need to try to explain the motivation and roots of the behaviour of the assaulter in the story.
Explain how sexual behaviour could be socialized in males. Do you think that males who commit sexual assault are "hyper-masculine"? Why and where do men learn "hyper-masculine" behaviour?
The factors that predispose men to commit sexual assault include evolutionary factors, male socialization, psychological abnormality, and social learning. Most criminologists believe that rape is not sexually motivated. The evolutionary and biological factors of males suggest that sexual assault may be instinctual and developed over the ages in an effort to perpetuate the species. This notion holds that men who are sexually aggressive will have a reproductive edge over their more passive peers. Conversely, the male socialization view argues that men are socialized to be the aggressors and expect to be sexually active with many women. Sexual insecurity, then, may then lead some men to commit sexual assault to bolster their self-image. Hyper-masculine men typically have a callous sexual attitude and believe that violence is manly. Finally, another view is that men learn to commit sexual assaults as they learn any other behaviour.
Before you write your blog for the day PLEASE read this article: "The conversation you must have with your sons" AND this article "Why campuses are too often the scene of sex crimes" AND check out this TIME article Girls in the U.K. Report Being 'Fetishized' and Sexually Harassed in Their School Uniforms
Then, think about the media we are exposed to in youth...Check out the official Miss Representation website.
After, back in the classroom, we'll discuss murder and homicide. We'll discuss the divisions of murder in Canada (1st and 2nd degree and manslaughter), the extent of murder in Canada, and murderous relations (acquaintance and stranger homicide). Although much of the focus is often on homicides with a link to criminal activity, the majority of homicides in Canada are committed by an acquaintance (34%), a family member (33%), a stranger (19%), or someone with whom the victim had a current or former intimate relationship – non-spousal (6%).
Nationally, police reported 651 homicides in 2018, 15 fewer victims than the previous year and the homicide rate fell 4% in 2018 to 1.76 per 100,000 population. There are year-to-year fluctuations to the national homicide rate, but generally it has been declining. Homicides are considered rare in Canada. In 2018 police reported them as accounting for less than 0.2 per cent of all violent crimes. Comparable to past years, the rate of homicide in 2018 for Indigenous people was approximately five times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous people (7.31 per 100,000 population for Indigenous people, compared with 1.44 for non-Indigenous people).
Statistics Canada says that in 2018 the national rate of firearm-related homicides declined 8% and gang-related homicides decreased (-5%) for the first time since 2014.
- The Colorado River supports $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity and 16 million jobs in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming - that’s equivalent to about 1/12 of the total U.S. domestic product, meaning the Colorado River’s contribution is important to the national economy as well
- For each of these western states, the river accounts for at least half of its gross economic product. The total is much higher for some state economies, including 65% in New Mexico and 87% in Nevada.
- If just 10% of the river’s water were unavailable for people, we would see a loss of $143 billion in economic activity and 1.6 million jobs in just one year.
- The resulting economic hit would be delivered across the board, with the largest effects in real estate, healthcare and social services, retail, technical services and finance.
As famous as the Colorado may be, it’s equally infamous for the stresses placed upon it due to over-allocation, overuse, and more than a century of manipulation. The Colorado River Water Compact drafted in 1922 to divide water between upper and lower basin states was based on analysis of one of the wettest 10-year periods in history, establishing a permanent deficit. The battery of threats facing the natural masterpiece the river has carved through the Grand Canyon have earned that segment the number one spot on American Rivers’ Most Endangered Rivers report in 2015. About two-thirds of the water flowing in the Colorado River and its tributaries is used for irrigation, and the other one-third supplies urban areas, evaporates into the atmosphere, or provides water to riparian (streamside) vegetation. Without Colorado River water, the region would support few crops, and major cities such as Las Vegas, Nevada, and Phoenix, Arizona, would not have grown so rapidly.
So this week Benton and I will work with you on the mighty Colorado. Today we'll try to figure out what the Colorado River was like pre-colonization? We'll do some geography seeing where is it in on the continent? (Google Earth tour) and we'll fill in a blank map of the basin together when we look at a slide show of the river. We'll try to see what are some major characteristics and climates in the basin today? Finally we'll introduce our round table discussion activity for Friday and maybe establish groups and field any questions you may have.
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