Thursday, February 20. 2025

Today's schedule is DCBA

B Block Criminology - Quiz #2 today...on crime statistics and trends (you may use the note sheet I gave you). The quiz will have: 6 True/False questions; 9 Multiple Choice questions; and 1 Short Answer question. After the quiz, we'll analyze the short and long term effects that crime has on victims

Based on the data reported to the GSS, there are certain characteristics that place an individual or a household at greater risk of victimization. In 2019, the key factors associated with higher odds of violent victimization were: being younger; being a woman; being a sexual minority; living in a neighbourhood where social disorder is perceived; having been homeless; having been abused, witnessed violence, or experienced harsh parenting or neglect during childhood, and; participating in a higher number of evening activities outside the home.

To help check out The Impact of Victimization prepared by the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime and the Victims’ roles and rights in the criminal justice system and Criminal Victimization in Canada (from the most recent General Social Survey in 2019 - look at Reporting victimization to police Charts 7 and 8).

Read the following hypothetical victim story (from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Course Module 11 Access to Justice for Victims) and we'll try to discuss the following together:

1. What happened?
2. What type of damage did the victim(s) suffer?
3. What needs the victim(s) might have?
4. What would be the best approach to ensuring justice for these victim(s)?

Allie and Mike are both in their mid-seventies. They are both retired, and since their children grew up and left, besides being grandparents, they look after themselves, travel, spend time in the community, and engaged with various hobbies. Mike had a hip replacement a few years ago and has some issue in walking; Allie has high blood pressure and is on heart medication. They have been together for 45 years.

One night while returning from a concert performance, Allie was taking the keys from her bag, they were approached by two young men who distracted them by asking for directions. They seemed lost and were very gentle to the couple, apologizing. After spending a few seconds in exchanging information, one of the two young men, grabbed Allie's bag, where she had her purse, keys, her mobile and some photos and small objects, while the other young men hit Mike on his head, took his wallet and left him unconscious on the ground. Allie, in total shock, started shouting and asking for help. She did not have the phone anymore, and as much as she was shaking could not even shout; eventually, after ten minutes, someone called an ambulance and then the police arrived.

They were both brought the hospital where Mile spent five days 'under observation' due to a mild concussion. When home, he could not stand on his own feet, as he was always dizzy and losing balance. Consequently, one of their sons moved in, and they also had to have some professional assistance.

One of the two young men were arrested three days after the attack thanks to some cameras positioned in a nearby bank. He pleaded guilty, saying that he was under the effects of drug and alcohol and did not have the means to pay back any of the costs or damages.

To help with the impacts of crime on victims (both short and long term)

Tomorrow you'll have some questions on Victims and Victimology for me to work on.

A Block Physical Geography - We'll transfer some notes into our Tectonics package on the rock cycle then we'll work on igneous rocks and plutonic features...there will be three questions to work on (in your Geosystems Core textbook). Don't forget that Intrusive igneous rocks crystallize below Earth's surface, and the slow cooling that occurs there allows large crystals to form. Examples of intrusive igneous rocks are diorite, gabbro, granite, pegmatite, and peridotite. Extrusive igneous rocks erupt onto the surface, where they cool quickly to form small crystals. Some cool so quickly that they form an amorphous glass. These rocks include andesite, basalt, dacite, obsidian, pumice, rhyolite, and scoria. 

If you need help look at the e-notes on Earthfacts

Check out the Dynamic Earth Interactive Rock Identification site here
Check out the Brief Introduction to Minerals from the Intro to Geology & Geomorphology text

Check out the Rock Cycle from the Intro to Geology & Geomorphology text
Check out the Rock Cycle from the Geological Society here
Check out CK-12 Igneous Rock,  Sedimentary Rock or Metamorphic rock information.

When answering the question on felsic (>69% silica) and mafic (45-52% silica) rock,  please consider Melting Points, Colour, Density, and Minerals (coarse/fine and type)…SPOILER ALERT, this will be connected to tectonic boundaries and types of volcanoes and their eruptions

from A Brief Introduction to Geology and Geomorphology, by Nahgeib Miller.

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