This week, as we approach the end of the semester, I would like to invite you to present your findings from the semester-long project. Essentially, you will present what you learned about your neighborhood. Be ready to show slides (5-6).…
This week we will focus on how to overcome community disorder. We will explore two research articles dealing with this topic. They offer two different solutions, and we will discuss how we can see our communities moving forward.
This week we are switching gears and focusing on the twin issues that have been plaguing our cities and suburbs/exurbs: the red-lining and the white flight. We will look at the historical trends in housing discrimination and will study …
This week we will focus on gentrification, the concept that we turned to from time to time. The term “gentrification” was originally coined in the 1960s by Ruth Glass to describe the transformation of working-class London neighborhoods into middle …
This week, we will conclude the discussion of Victor Rios’ book Punished. We will discuss the book’s methods and conclusions. We will also discuss how we can solve the issues outlined in his book. Does the author provide solutions?
Read the chapters here:
Punished_Policing_the_Lives_of_Black_and_Latino_Bo…_-_Pg_43-115For the next three weeks, we will be reading Victor Rios’ book Punished. In each class, we will analyze and discuss the main ideas from the chapters.
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/reader.action?docID=865849&ppg=22
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This week we will focus on spatial analysis of mass incarceration in the United States. On the one hand, we will learn that the highest imprisonment rates are in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas. For example, we will …
This week we will review two other approaches to studying communities and crime. One perspective focuses on explicating the role of culture and how it impacts crime in a community. Another perspective, which proved to be quite influential at …
This week we will be engaging with the work by William Julius Wilson and his work on the inner city communities he categorized as truly disadvantaged. In this work, he focused on the underclass, particularly the Black underclass. In …
Here are some important links in which I will demonstrate how to properly conduct library research and write an annotated bibliography.
This week we will continue talking about urban communities and cities. We will discuss the key characters that make a place a city. We will also focus on the issue of representation and decision-making in the cities.
This week we will focus on defining what makes a community. First, we will read an excerpt from a book by Jane Jacobs, a renowned American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Then, we …
In this unit, I would like us to pause and think about the words we routinely use in criminology/criminal justice: offender, criminal, convict, felon, inmates, prisoner, ex-prisoner, juvenile delinquent, and on and on. What unites all these words? What do …
In American society, most people believe that individuals shape their own destinies. However, while people have the ability to make decisions, their choices are often shaped or limited by larger social forces, such as our family, our social class, …
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