B Block Criminology - Today, to start the class, I would like you to start with one question that I'd like you to brainstorm:
Why do people commit crime?
After some time, I'd like you to partner up and get your ideas on a large sheet of paper. In your pod/groupings where I'll give you a handout to help you with crime theories and I'd like your group to see where your crime theory categorized clusters (similar categories) fit in terms of Choice, Trait, Social Structure, Social Learning, and Conflict theories. The goal of criminological theory is to help one gain an understating of crime and criminal justice. Many disciplines factor into criminological theories, such as psychology, sociology, biology, political science, and criminal justice.
Theories cover the making and the breaking of the law, criminal and deviant behavior, as well as patterns of criminal activity. Individual theories may be either macro or micro. Theories can be used to guide policy making, and can be evaluated on a number of criteria including: clarity, scope, parsimony (concise), testability, practical usefulness, and empirical validity. Many theories have common traits, but differences among them still exist. Understanding these differences is key to understanding the often contradictory views of crime and deviance they try to explain.
Some good theories explanation videos can be found here at Criminology Web on Youtube. You could also look at the video from Rachael Means below
A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll work on the foundations of Geography starting with the Five Themes. In order to understand the increasingly complex and interconnected world we live in we need to find a way to make sense of information in a way that doesn't overwhelm us. The Five Themes (Location, Place, Human-Environment Interactions, Movement, and Regions) are a framework for making sense of geographic data. It helps you to understand the holistic nature of geography of geography (emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole, as each theme cannot be seen in isolation from the others).
Geographers ask two simple questions: Where are people and activities found on Earth? and Why are they found there? So we'll try to work on the Questions:
How do Geographers describe where things are? (Location or Site)
Why is each point on Earth unique? (Place or Situation and also Regions if you think of scale)
How are Places connected (Movement and Regions)
Why Are Different Places Similar? (Regions)
How do Humans interact with Environments in different places? (Human Environment Interactions)
We'll do this through the 5 Themes. Consider this, for absolute location instead of Lat & Long/Street Addresses/Grid Coordinates...Check out the "what3words" app/map is all about. What3words divided the entire world into a grid of 3 meter squares and gave each square a unique combination of three random words (a what3words address). This means that every building or station entrance, pop-up venue and meet-up spot in a park has its own unique address, allowing users to easily find, share and navigate to anywhere in the world. Young's desk can be found at
///dangerously.hydration.uphill
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