– 300 words for each answer except where there is multiple questions for one week – Doesnt need to be an essay – No introduction or conclusion – Answer in one large paragraph or two – Full sentences and paragraphs. No bullet points or outlines – Reference to be in APA Format Week 1: Title of work: Media, Process, and the Social Construction Of Crime: Studies In Newsmaking Criminology (1994) Section 1-1: Predator criminals as media icons. Pages 131-158 Author/editor of work: Barak, Gregg Author of section: Ray Surette Name of Publisher: Garland Publishing Inc; Taylor & Francis Inc Question (300 words in total): What, according to Surette, is the empirical reality of Predator crime? Why is this concept important for how the public views serious crime and/or criminals? Finally, which of the three sociological paradigms do you think Surettes article best fits into? (Functionalism, social conflict theory, or symbolic interactionism?) Why? Week 2: Chapter 5: Making Money By Phillip I. Bourgois; Jeff Pages 177-217 Question (300 words in total): 1. What biographical factors in these peoples lives appears to have led to their current addictions and homelessness? Just a few examples 2. What historical forces do the authors discuss that might have contributed to these peoples homelessness and/or serious conditions. Why are these important? 3. What might ethnography and participant observation uncover about crime that other approaches cannot? Give an example or two from the reading. Week 3: Lyon, D. (1991). Benthams panopticon: From moral architecture to electronic surveillance. Queens Quarterly, 98(3), 596. Questions (300 words in total): 1. What is panopticism? 2. While Bentham was never successful in getting his panoptic prison built, the French philosopher Michel Foucault argued in his book Discipline and Punish that the panopticon was actually a model for how many social institutions in the modern world function to control people. He pointed specifically to factories or workplaces, education, and healthcare as examples of places where people internalize the sense of being watched, and in turn learn to follow the rules without anyone having to coerce or threaten them to do so. Pick one of these examples and briefly describe in a few sentences how your example employs panoptic principles of control or surveillance to get people to follow the rules. 3. Finally, in his article, Lyon notes that the rise of private policing and surveillance has mushroomed in the last forty years or so. Think of an example from your own life where you were policed or surveilled by people or systems other than law enforcement, and explain in a few sentences what this was and how it made you feel. Week 4: Rosenhan, D. L. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179(4070), 250-258. Question (300 words in total): 1. What implications might you draw from this study as to the use and nature of mental health diagnoses as an explanation for criminal behaviour? 2. From your perspective, what might be some problems with the reliability or validity of Rosenhans study? Provide two major flaws, as you see them, and explain each in a few sentences Week 5: McCausland, R., Alison, V. (2010). Why Do Some Aboriginal Communities Have Lower Crime Rates Than Others?: A Pilot Study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43(2), 301-332. Question (300 words in total): 1. What methodological approach did the authors of this article use to assess the applicability of social disorganisation theory to explaining crime in Aboriginal communities? 2. What were the key findings of this research i.e what factors were identified as contributing to high crime rates in Wilcannia and how were low crime rates explained in Menindee? 3. Was social disorganisation theory able to explain the differences in crime rates between Wilcannia and Menindee? Why or why not?
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