Author: Satenik Margaryan

STEP THREE: NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT

Satenik Margaryan

For this assignment, you will be expected to gather and submit background data about your neighborhood. Consult various sources for data about the neighborhood of your choice listed below.

Indicators that you should be looking at include the racial/ethnic composition of the neighborhood, socioeconomic make-up, age distributions, and other important quantitative indicators. In addition, you should present data on crime and justice. 

If it is possible, you should also take a number of photos that would represent the chosen neighborhood and insert those in the Neighborhood Report. 

Background Info:

NYC Specific Crime Info:

WEEK 8 (10/24 to 10/30): Criminalizing and Imprisoning Communities of Color | Real People, Real Lives, Real Implications (continued, week 2)

Satenik Margaryan

Readings:

Chapters 2-5 in Rios, Victor M.. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, New York University Press, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/detail.action?docID=865849.

Read the chapters here:

Punished_Policing_the_Lives_of_Black_and_Latino_Bo…_-_Pg_43-115

Power Point

Victor Rios Week 2.pptx

Welcome to Week 7!

Welcome to Week 7!

Satenik Margaryan

Dear students,

We are almost halfway through the semester. This week we start reading the book Punished by Victor Rios. In the Unit, I provided links to the whole book in our library and audiobook versions for two sites. There is no excuse not to read this book!

Please don’t forget to bring your laptops to class as you are preparing for your Step 2 submissions.

If you need assistance with any of the assignments, please don’t hesitate to talk to me. I can be accessible before and after the class during the week. And I will have my regular ZOOM office hours today at 1 pm and on Tuesday/Thursday, from 9:45 am to 10:45 am (in my office and on ZOOM). On the three days, I am available on ZOOM: https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/3772687009

I can also meet with you via ZOOM by appointment.

WEEK 7 (10.17 to 10/23): Criminalizing and Imprisoning Communities of Color | Real People, Real Lives, Real Implications

Satenik Margaryan

For 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.

Reading:

Victor Rios, Punished (2011): Preface & Chapters 1 – Dreams Deferred

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/reader.action?docID=865849&ppg=22

The book is also available on Spotify or Audible if you have a subscription. Actually, Audible is offering a 30-day trial which is perfect for our book discussion duration.

You can read the chapters here.

Punished_Policing_the_Lives_of_Black_and_Latino_Bo…_-_Pg_8-43

Videos

Welcome to Week 6! Bring Laptops to Class!

Satenik Margaryan

Dear students, this week we will explore additional exploration of crime in urban neighborhoods: cultural and broken windows approaches. Your study materials are in Week 6 unit. We are moving along with our term project Steps. If you have fallen behind, please do get in touch with me! We will be working on Step 2 this week.

Please make sure to bring your laptops/IPADs to class so we can practice getting articles for your annotated bibliographies.

If you have to miss class this week, please make sure to see me during my office hours (T/Th, 9:45 am to 10:45 am). I can be available via ZOOM at other times.

WEEK 6 (10/11 to 10/16): Researching the Community: Community as a Criminal Culture and a Broken Window

Satenik Margaryan

Overview

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 the end of the Twentieth Century, focused on enforcing policing over the minor quality of life crimes, the so-called Brocken Windows theory. We will explore both the central themes in two chapters and then look at the pictures of the communities they create.

Readings:

Chapter 5: Community as a Criminal Culture in Wilcox, Pamela, et al. Communities and Crime: An Enduring American Challenge, Temple University Press, 2017. ProQuest
Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/detail.action?docID=5124754.

Get the chapter here:

29698510

Community as a Broken Window in Wilcox, Pamela, et al. Communities and Crime: An Enduring American Challenge, Temple University Press, 2017. ProQuest
Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/detail.action?docID=5124754.

Get the chapter here:

29698522

Videos:

Elijah Anderson – Code of the Street

Power Point

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Welcome to Week 5!

Welcome to Week 5!

Satenik Margaryan

Dear students,

We are in Week 5 of our semester. This week, we will focus on the work by William Julius Wilson where he focuses on exploring the social, political, and economic factors that make inner-city neighborhoods most disadvantaged. I posted Week 5 unit with study materials.

We will only meet once this week, on Thursday, October 6th. I will go over this week’s material on Thursday. Meanwhile, when you find time, please watch the documentary on Pruitt Igoe Housing development on Kanopy which is a free resource for CUNY faculty and students. I also hope that you are working on your annotated bibliographies.

I will have office hours today via ZOOM, from 1 pm to 2 pm: https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/3772687009

I will also be in my office for office hours on Thursday morning.

Please email me if you have any concerns or issues.