Criminology

Why have prison movies, despite their popularity and some of the common myths associated with them, failed to inform penal reform agendas? Do you agree with Rex Bloomstein that documentaries such as those he produces have greater potential to change public perceptions of prisoners and lead to less punitive attitudes? For more information on Penal Reform read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_reform 

Discuss the crime of extortion. What is the criminal act element required for extortion? What is the criminal intent element required for extortion? What could a potential defense to extortion be? Provide examples. The paper must be 1-2 pages. For more information on Extortion read this:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion

 How would you explain the way that the media chooses a crime story and how to report it? Do you feel the media has a hidden agenda? Do you feel the media has had a positive impact on morality or social consciousness?  Do the prevailing theoretical perspectives sufficiently answer these questions?  What are some of the ways you would go about investigating these ideas?  For more information on Crime Story read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_fiction

How do the media representations of crime make certain individuals or groups feel they are more vulnerable to crime than they are in reality? What impact did the media have on the OJ Simpson case? Look at the historical context of the case and other cases that impacted public opinion at the time.  What other case influenced the OJ Simpson outcome? For more information on OJ Simpson read this:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson

 How do the different theoretical perspectives present in Chapter 1 regarding the violence of young criminals like Klebold and Harris and the Menendez brothers? What effect did the media have on the public’s conception of their crimes?  Be sure to contrast the media messages closest to the events with those of years later.  For more information on Crime In Media read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime,_Media,_Culture

Incarceration Rates/Crime Rates We are now in what some people call the Crime Control Era. Over the past several years, on average, arrests have gone up, prison populations have increased and crime has gone down. This doesn’t hold perfectly year to year but over an average of a few years, it does. Does this mean that mass incarceration is the answer to crime control? Research this topic and provide statistics and analysis to show a clear picture of what is actually happening. Write a 2 page APA style paper. Only the body of the paper will count toward the page requirement (the title page and references are in addition to the two pages).In your paper include 2-3 references.  Only one reference may be found on the internet. The other references must be found in the online library. You must cite the references in the body of your essay.https://content.grantham.edu/academics/01_Instructional_Designers/WrittenAssignmentRubric.htm For more information on Crime Control Era read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Crime+Control+Era&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1

The objective of this assignment is to ensure each student demonstrates sufficient understanding of Criminology and theories related to the causes of delinquency. The final project / Narrated Power Point requires the completion of a critically evaluative research paper on a notorious criminal or criminal event. Ideas can include serial offenders, mass-murders, or major crime sprees. The only requirement is that the event is well documented regionally, if not nationally. The PowerPoint should include a synopsis of the event(s), what school of thought or theory was represented by the suspect or event, and how society has dealt with the issue. Students should identify if there were identified signs or deviant behavior that could have alerted society to the impending crimes. The bible should be cross-referenced if applicable to your thoughts. This presentation should be no more than 10 minutes in length with an abstract slide in APA format. The PowerPoint must show evidence of research that goes beyond Internet websites and class textbooks. Wikipedia is not permitted. Use as at least one reference:  Schmalleger, Frank (2017).  Criminology today: an integrative Introduction. (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.  ISBN 978-0134146386 PLEASE DO THIS ASSIGNMENT ON JOHN WAYNE GACY  For more information on John Wayne Gacy read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy

I have already chosen the topic number 3 which is “should Canada allow medical assistance in death” For more information on Death read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death

The purpose of this project is to apply the knowledge gained throughout the semester to analysis of a research article. This project will involve the analysis of “DOES CONTACT WITH THE JUSTICE SYSTEM DETER OR PROMOTE FUTURE DELINQUENCY? RESULTS FROM A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF BRITISH ADOLESCENT TWINS” by Ryan T. Motz,et als. in Criminology, May 2020; volume 58 issue 2(pp. 280-306). The assignment will be provided for the students during the semester. (Must answer all 10 questions) Must be 6 or more pages. APA format, 12 Font, double spaced https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1745-9125.12236The assignment components and grading specifics are outlined below:(1) What is the hypothesis of the research? (2) List and operationalize all independent and dependent variables examined.(3) What method of data collection was used and the sample examined? 4) Discuss the prior literature reviewed and its relevance to the research problem. Do you believe the literature review is an adequate representation of all relevant studies? (5) What do the findings suggest? (6) Can this research be generalized? Why or why not? (7) How well do you believe the research design chosen was suited to the research question? (8) How clearly was the data presented and discussed? Do you believe the results are substantively important? (9) What additional questions or hypotheses are suggested by the study’s results? (10) What are some of the potential drawbacks of this research? NB: The assignment calls for an analysis of the article. The assignment components and grading specifics outlined above are just a guide as to what students should look for when analyzing research articles.

How Juvenile Correction can be improved to ensure that they help the youths change their behavior. The research will investigate how juvenile correction can be improved to ensure that they help the youths change their behavior for the better. These correction centers should shift from confining and punishing the youths to ensuring they facilitate how these youths become better and reliable people in society when they get released (Ndrecka et al. 2020). Youths whose behavior needs correcting can be taken to the juvenile center still, the juvenile’s aim should ensure they improve their behavior for the better, not just confining them without good behavior training. Juvenile correction centers should no longer focus on punishing the youths in these correction centers; instead, there should be a platform where they will be given training on how to own up their behavior and assist them in changing their behavior. The research should address how juvenile correction centers will achieve this. The study will also focus on how this change should be done and outline the benefits of this new strategy.                                                        Statement of Objectives Improvement of the Juvenile Correctional Centers The research will be focused on the improvement of the juvenile correction centers to enable the youths not just to get punished for their wrongdoing in these prisons but also to be put into a correction channel that focuses on behavior change. This will help enhance positive change among the youths. Some other objectives of the research will be: Show how juvenile correction centers will benefit the young people regarding improving into becoming better places of correction. Look into the issues concerned with the current correction centers and what needs to be done to make juvenile sentence centers better places of correcting the youths. Formulating specific ways in which juvenile correction centers can focus on improving these places. Proving a way in which youths will be provided with a platform that focuses on changing their behavior rather than punishing the Juveniles.  There is a need to ensure that there is a chance in how these youths are corrected in Juvenile correction places. Failing to rectify this illness will prove juvenile efforts to improve behavior, to be in vain (Jolivette and Kumm). The people in juvenile but without mental illness might fail to improve their behavior because they are mixed with sick people who are not being helped improve.                                             Summer of the Research question The need to improve juvenile correctional centers. There is a need to improve juvenile correctional centers. This is because there have been many issues with how youths have been corrected in these centers. Studies indicate that society has not achieved a lot in correcting these youths in these centers (Harouni et al.). These youths hardly change their behaviors even after leaving these correction centers. There is a need to investigate which area of correction needs to be improved and which need to be discarded as far as these youths’ behavioral change is concerned.  The research question aligns with my study’s purpose in that there has been a need to improve how juvenile correction centers operate in correcting the youths. Some delinquent adolescent behaviors do not necessarily merit intercession.  Assisting the youths to recognize and own up to their actions rather than judging them and quickly detaining them will be a humane step. Improving these corrections centers to help our youths achieve more from these centers.