Satenik Margaryan
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Hi all, just wanted to remind you that Exam 2 is currently live on Blackboard. You have until Sunday, November 7th, 11:59 pm to submit it. Any questions, email me at smargaryan@bmcc.cuny.edu…
On Tuesday, November 9th, 3:30PM – 5:30PM, in collaboration with the Center for Career Development, we will host our Fall 2021 Criminal Justice Career Event. We are excited about our lineup as we have panelists representing diverse …
Dear students,
Welcome to Week 10. This week we will focus on a major criminological theory – the Theory of Social Disorganization. Please make sure to study the materials in Week 10 unit and as well as to participate in …
As we are learning about the criminogenic (causing crime) characteristics of neighborhoods, it is important to think about how we can overcome disorganization and organize the communities, instead. Read about the project where artist Ariana Faye Allensworth aims at doing …
Week 10 Lecture Overview
This week we will focus on the Chicago School of Criminology. This theoretical branch focuses on understanding how neighborhood-level variables are connected to crime rates. We will review the work of Burgess and Park and their …
Dear students, we are in Week 9 of the course. We are following right along with the syllabus. This week we will be looking at the first major branch of criminological theories that are focusing on social determinants of criminal …
Watch Richard Wilkinson’s TED talk which charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust. Do you agree …
Lesson Overview
This week we are introduced to the mainstream sociological approaches for understanding crime. We start with Durkheim’s anomie theory, which postulated that social changes and the feeling of normlessness in society were linked to the crime. Merton expanded …
