Wednesday, October 24. 2018

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Criminology - Today you'll need to answer the following:

1. What are the differences between a professional and an occasional thief?
2. What is a "situational inducement"?
3. What is a "Booster", a "Snitch", and a "Fence"?

After, you'll need to work the following:

You work for the Retail Council of Canada and have been hired to create a poster campaign about shoplifting. The poster campaign has two purposes:

1. To help employees identify people who are shoplifting and
2. To explain how to reduce shoplifting in stores (target hardening and target removal strategies)

Look at figure 11.2 on page 257 in the Criminology text for help. Here are some further ideas and points.....

Spot the Shoplifter: Unfortunately, there is no typical profile of a shoplifter. Thieves come in all ages, races and from various backgrounds. However, there are some signs that should signal a red flag for retailers. While the following characteristics don't necessarily mean guilt, retailers should keep a close eye on shoppers who exhibit the following:

1. Spends more time watching the cashier or sales clerk than actually shopping.
2. Wears bulky, heavy clothing during warm weather or coats when unnecessary.
3. Walks with short or unnatural steps, which may indicate that they are concealing lifted items.
4. Takes several items into dressing room and only leaves with one item.
5. Seems nervous and possibly picks up random items with no interest.
6. Frequently enters store and never makes a purchase.
7. Enters dressing room or rest rooms with merchandise and exits with none.
8. Large group entering the store at one time, especially juveniles. A member of the group causes a disturbance to distract sales staff.

This will take the whole class to complete and will be handed in on Friday for marks. For more check out:
Preventing Retail Theft (you can't make a profit it your merchandise is free)
Using Customer Service to deter theft
Simple steps to deter retail theft
Loss Prevention & Security
Shopliftingprevention.org


A & D Blocks Human Geography - Remember, this semester, rather than a final exam, you will be completing an extended individual research project guided by the tenets of Inquiry Learning. As this is an extended project, you will have a lot of class time where you will be working independently, and you will need to manage your homework time effectively. Today, we are in the library to begin narrowing down your broad topics of Inquiry. At this phase of the inquiry process you should choose a broad topic or theme that you are interested in. You need to determine: 

1. what question will be investigated; 
2. how you might find the information you need about a topic; 
3. how to present information to an audience 

From page 11 of the Inquiry project booklet I gave you:

1. Identify Key Topic of Interest
a.) What do you know? What do you want to know?  (List/brainstorm the possible topics you would like to know more about; use your textbook as a guide) 
2. Key topics of interest:  b) Generate a list of questions about these issues/topics. 

So today should be about finding information about your broad topic of interest and generating questions (lines of possible inquiry) for that broad topic.

I will come around to help.