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Corporate Crimes - Part 2
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Apr 27 2009, 9:31 AM EDT by
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Apr 27 2009, 9:31 AM EDT
1)When Vaughan presents the idea of “techocrime”, the transformation of routine tasks of the new technology such as computers and the difficulty in monitoring and controlling crimes associated with this technology, it makes me question what courses of actions could be taken to control such crimes? (291)
2)In Matthews and Kauzlarich notes at the end of the article, they mention the debate on the definition of crime and how some scholars argue that violations of regulatory and administrative laws are not considered under the definition of crimes. My question is how could we not see these things as crimes, because in many cases these violations affect a lot more people than regular street crimes do.
3)On page 291 of Matthews and Kauzlarich’s article, they talk about the “FAA’s unwillingness or inability to enforce” regulations, the thing I don’t understand though is how can the FAA, being a governmental agency, not have the ability to enforce the regulations? I also wonder how they think it is acceptable to be unwilling to enforce them, knowing that some many lives can be put at stake.
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Corporate Crimes
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Apr 20 2009, 10:00 AM EDT by
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Apr 20 2009, 10:00 AM EDT
1.How frequently does the court impede the enforcement process for those who commit white collar crimes? It seems as if precedent has been counterintuitive in many cases to the enforcement of laws which would counter white collar crime.
2.Inconsistency in the court’s ability to administer proper justice seems to be a reoccurring theme in the book. Is the international community obligated to step in when violations occur such as what happened with Guantanamo as mentioned in the book?
3.I am still a bit unsure of how dissolution of the court plays a role in effecting the outcome of rulings. Is this just another example of more discretion existing on the part of the prosecutor than would be expected in our justice system?
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Public Order Crimes
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Apr 13 2009, 9:59 AM EDT by
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Apr 13 2009, 9:59 AM EDT
1) After reading Phoenix's article on prositution I began to think about how women are using advantages of their bodies to sell themselves and earn money and began to think about a discussion in another class I had about surrogate mothers. Do you think their motives are similiar and that the actions of surrogate mothers could be seen as criminal and wrong in our society like that of prostitutes since they too are using their female bodies to earn money?
2)One point I found interesting from Snow's article was when he talked about the stigmatization of homeless men and that this stigmatization subjects them to closer scrutiny and increases the possibility of arrest. Do you agree that this stigmatization may be a self-fulfilling prophecy for the men, that after being stigmatized and having this idea enstilled in their mind for so long they may start to beleive it and commit more crime because of it?
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A World of Gangs
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Apr 6 2009, 9:45 AM EDT by
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Apr 6 2009, 9:45 AM EDT
1. When Hagedorn talks about how defensible spaces help intstitutionalize gangs I can't help but wonder what makes places like Chicago and Rio de Janeiro different form other densely populated cities when it comes to hiding from the police and becoming a defensible area. Additionally I get that it would e hard to find someone in such a heavily populated place but one would think police forces would increased to account for that, why doesn this not occur or not help?
2. When Hagedorn speaks of gangs political involvement he doens't really mention how the lack of or pursuit of, effects the surrounding society. He calls it minding their own business when they don't get politically involved but they are clearly still a danger and issue to the community. So how does the decision to become politically invoved affect their actions in terms of the community?
3. I am very interested in the part of Street Wars that discusses the cross cultural involvement between gangs and hip-hop. How two literally intertwine and how famous rappers were also able to be involved in the gang subculture. In the cases where rappers died I find myself applying the chicken or the egg theory, did being famous and involved in a gang further their demise or help keep them alive as long as they did?
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Property Crime
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Mar 30 2009, 9:40 AM EDT by
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Thread started: Mar 25 2009, 9:36 AM EDT
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Mar 30 2009, 9:40 AM EDT
In Hakim and Shachmurove’s article, to what extent exactly do the rates of police patrolling in commercial business areas effect alarms effectiveness as a deterrent?
Decker’s descriptions are detailed, but I am curious about the process that occur post burglary. What is commonly done with items stolen from residences and shops? Are they more often pawned, used for personal purposes, self sold? Where, when, and in what manner?
Fleming’s article mentions the monthly expenses on average of roughly $2,000 per month for these individuals. Is there any data on the overall income and lucrative value for the average auto theft offender? In the case of older offenders high profit values seem to be a motivator however, I find it hard to believe that income is stable or comparable to market value in the legitimate auto industry.
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Violent Crime
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Mar 23 2009, 9:44 AM EDT by
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Mar 23 2009, 9:44 AM EDT
1) In the first article, Jackman includes discriminatory practices restricted access to life-enhancing goods and services as one of the major causes of injury among the leading causes of death. This is part of the corporate or societal inflicted violence he discusses through out the article. Would this include refusal of medical treatment due to an inability to obtain life-insurance?
2) Where does Jackman draw the line between violence and injury? It would seem to me that if someone was injured in their daily routine it would not be an occurance of violence in society, but Jackman claims even smoking cigarettes or watching violent television are incidences of violence.
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Violent Crime/Homicide - Part 1
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Mar 18 2009, 9:17 AM EDT by
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Mar 18 2009, 9:17 AM EDT
1) In Luckenbill’s piece, he points out in stage 5 that the “commitment to battle was additionally enhanced by the availability of weapons to support verbal threats and challenges”. With that being said, are the rates in which other crimes are committed also higher for those for those individuals?
2) In Levi’s piece, considering this is only following one individual and his career as a hit man, how can the points being made in the piece apply to the rest of society?
3) When Levi is talking about Pete and his emotional situation, I am baffled at how he can be so cold and still maintain a sense of human warmth and have a love for kids. Do you think it takes a certain kind of person to pull off something like that or is every human being capable of those actions?
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Victims
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Mar 6 2009, 9:24 AM EST by
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Mar 6 2009, 9:24 AM EST
1. They said that fear was the most prominent emotional response that predicted whether or not the crime will be reported and that if the consultants encouraged them to report the crime it was more likely to be reported, however I would like to know if ever there were conflicting answers between the two such as there was a lot of fear but the consultant told them not to report it, what was the outcome then?
2. Are the emotional responses between men and women the same for when they are both violent towards each other?
3. It says that men are more likely to be arrested for violence against his wife even if his wife is violent as well because of his size and strength, and also that policies protecting women are controversial because they imply dependency, We are fighting for equality between men and women, but people are also fighting for policies to policies to protect battered women. Where do we find the middle ground that doesn't "offend" either side?
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Correlates of Crime - Part 2
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Feb 23 2009, 9:42 AM EST by
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Feb 23 2009, 9:42 AM EST
1) In Steffensmeier and Allan’s piece, they make that statement that “women take greater risks to sustain valued relationships, whereas males take greater risks for reasons of status or competitive advantage”. With that being said, if society were to place more emphasis on sustaining those valued relationships, rather than the every man for himself mentality, would we see a drop in male crime?
2) In Sampson’s piece he points out that the possible reason for why we artificially low official crime estimates in the Hispanic community is because of the risk of deportation for the illegal aliens. This makes me think that there is a large amount of crime taking place but it’s just not getting reported but in reality the homicide rates have plummeted since they started immigrating. Therefore could these immigrants actually be good for law enforcement?
3) In the first piece when they talk about gender norms and how women are “not supposed” to commit crime, if we were to think of the control theory with this idea wouldn’t that have a negative effect on females and make them more apt to take part in crime?
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Correlates of Crime - part 1
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Feb 16 2009, 9:27 AM EST by
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Feb 16 2009, 9:27 AM EST
1) In the first reading, I feel as though giving more welfare would only increase the problem. I remember in a sociology course I took last year we discussed the issue of welfare. I think it would only make things worse because people would not be as motivated to search for jobs, they would just try and have money given to them. How does increased welfare really lead to less crime when welfare is barely enough to survive on?
2) The strain theory was brought up in the first article and was mainly aimed at lower class. While this may contribute to crime rates within the lower class what does it say for middle and upper class? Does strain and stress play no part in their crime rates...?
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Measurement
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Feb 9 2009, 9:38 AM EST by
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Post your questions regarding the websites on crime data here. To receive full credit, your questions must address 3 of the 4 data sites.
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) - http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/NIBRS/
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm
United Nations International Homicide Statistics - http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/ihs.html
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Feb 9 2009, 9:38 AM EST
1.) The national incident based reporting system resource guide is directly connected with the crime report so therefore pretty much shows the same data. Do you feel that an economic variable should be considered when looking at this data as we know that white collar crime is very sparingly caught and that most police patrolling is done in poor neighborhoods?
2.)The tab on the UCR website has a link that takes you to a "What We Investigate" which has a ranking system of priorities of crime. In this list public corruption and white collar crime are both listed about thefts and violent crime why do you feel the website is listed this way? Also why doesn't the media reflect this opinion to the public?
3.)The United Nations crime website has a much more less punative outlook on crime. Throughout the website it lists its objectives on how to fix juvenile and adult justice systems and effectively reintegrate criminals into society to reduce the crime rate. Why is this the only website that focuses on reform as an object when the others only present statistics and patterns about crime? Is this website like this because of the other countries other than the U.S.A. having say?
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Summary of Sacco
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Feb 6 2009, 2:36 AM EST by
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What the media chooses to report and how they report it had a huge impact on the public's view of crime. Since the majority of our information on crime is taken from the media as opposed to statistics etc. our beliefs are very skewed. The media is most concerned with grabbing attention and the entertainment value of crime. With such a selective and one sided display of crime the media forces unrealistic ideologies of crime upon the public. Additionally because crimes are reported as a distant activity that doesn't affect our personal lives Sacco believes the media is responsible for pushing the idea of punishment. If the crime is less personal the public's concern shifts away from the victim and the crime and towards punishing the bad guy. To conclude; our ideas of crime are very much controlled by the media.
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Summary of Stanko
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Feb 5 2009, 9:50 PM EST by
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Stanko's article examines and discusses thefactors that contribute to genderization of victims of crime. The focus on rape as the central danger to women trivializes other threats that women face such as sexual harassment and domestic violence. Because the media focuses mostly on the threat of rape to women, it serves to make women fear rape above all other crimes, and thus dangers seen as "lesser" go unreported because of their "lesser" nature (i.e. "My boss slapped my butt, but he didn't do anything more than that. I shouldn't report it, because it's not as though he did anything worse..."). Because of women's inequality in society, their fear of crime can also be translated into a fear of men, as men are almost always the perpetrators of crime, against men AND women. The article compares the conservative view of crimes against women to the feminist view, in that while the former asserts that women's crime is a result of their failure to protect themselves (and, according to!! the NRA, buying a gun can rectify this error), the latter argues that there are structural arrangements that contribute to women's fear of crime (lack of safe transportation, child care, housing, etc.).
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Summery of Stanko
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Feb 5 2009, 9:29 PM EST by
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We felt that this article focused on the presence of socially constructed gender roles in crime. It focused on women as victims, but in particularly as victims of sexual assult. The media also lends itself to this. The media wants to share the most sensationalist stories and as such it targets certian genders and crimes. Women are usually seen as smaller and weaker making them likely targets and rape is one of the most invasive crimes making them a prime target for the media. The article made it seem like the fear of sexual assault was the only thing a women does or should fear, that women only fear for
"their sexual integgrity." We got the sense that the author thinks that their is more fear then their should be even though Stanko acknowledges that the reported amount of crimes is not near the amount of actual crimes. At the end Stanko gives a list of changes that would ideally do away with women's fear - except that some of the things on the list (like safe relationships) aren't things that can be controlled, predicted or avoided. Other suggestion only help with the "stranger danger" even though the article mentions that most crimes against women are commeted by someone they know. The result is that the article is vaguely unsatisfying.
Fear isn't always reasonable.
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This article talked about how depending where one lives and what news stations they watch gives them different viewpoints and stereotypes about others as well as crime. For example, if you're only exposed to what you're shown on tv and there is nothing or no one around to tell you otherwise, you will believe what you see. Gilliam focused his attention on black people and the fears people have about them especially because of how they are portrayed in the media.
The experiment took place in an LA shopping mall where participants viewed 12 minute news clips. The only difference between the 2 groups of viewers was the presence/absence of African American crime suspects. They were given a pre-test questionnaire, watched the news cast, then completed another questionnaire. The study showed that if there are fewer blacks in the area, whites are more likely to endorse negative characteristics of black people and support punitive crime policies.
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Crime in the Media/Fear of Crime
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Feb 2 2009, 9:25 AM EST by
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Thread started: Jan 26 2009, 11:11 AM EST
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Feb 2 2009, 9:25 AM EST
1) At the end of Sacco’s article there is mentioning of how the media creates the problem where the “causes of offending are individualized and the relationships that link crime to broader social forces are left largely unexplored”. Considering this would it be safe to say the media may be somewhat inhibits society from looking at the larger picture of what are the actual sources of the crime?
2) After reading Gilliam’s piece it makes me wonder is the media knows if they have this kind of effect on individuals and groups and if they do then why don’t they try to counteract that effect and try to showcase African Americans in a better light. Therefore they we be stereotyped as much or “label” and that could potentially reduce their crime rates.
3) When commercial safety devices were mentioned in the Stanko article it made me wonder what kind of effect those devices have on women. If you are a woman that owns one then you are more likely to feel safer. If you don’t own one and these devices are on the market are you going to be more likely to question why they are on the market and then make you wonder if it is really that bad out there, thus creating more feel than you initially had?
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What is your definition of Crime?
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Jan 28 2009, 9:59 AM EST by
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Jan 28 2009, 9:59 AM EST
Crime is the socially defined (and usually punishable) acts that are deviant from the values or beliefs of the larger society.
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Issues in the Sociology of Crime
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Jan 27 2009, 9:57 PM EST by
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Jan 27 2009, 9:57 PM EST
1.) According to the Sampson article, "adult criminality is nearly always preceded by "antisocial behavior," in childhood, but most antisocial children do not become criminals as adults." This makes sense in that crime is more random, and does not fit into one explanation as the article explains. My question is in regards to the adult crime that is preceded by antisocial behavior, are there other similar correlations that occur in childhood such as abuse, traumatic events?
Also are there correlations to the crimes that are committed by the adults who were anti social children?
2.) In that same article, Sampson indicates that his research none of the variables measuring family background (poverty, parental criminality, child supervision) predicted crime. If this is true, why sociologist base theories that explain crime in terms of background (like labeling theory or strain theory) ?
3.) In the Covington article it crime rates in terms of race, but wouldn't social control have more to do with "rates," because white crime is not reported nearly as much as black crime, in general..so statistics are inaccurate?
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