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CRIMINOLOGY (SOC 361)

Introduction to the course. CRIMINOLOGY (SOC 361). Syllabus Introduction to the Subject Student Survey In-class assignment # 1. Instructor. Name: Arina Gertseva Office: Wilson-Short Hall room 214 Office Hours: M & W 8:00-10:00 a.m. or by appointment E-mail : garina@wsu.edu.

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CRIMINOLOGY (SOC 361)

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  1. Introduction to the course CRIMINOLOGY (SOC 361) Syllabus Introduction to the Subject Student Survey In-class assignment # 1

  2. Instructor • Name: Arina Gertseva • Office: Wilson-Short Hall room 214 • Office Hours: M & W 8:00-10:00 a.m. or by appointment • E-mail: garina@wsu.edu

  3. Course Website • http://cooley.libarts.wsu.edu/soc3611/ • You are responsible for checking the course web site frequently for important announcements, details on assignments, grades, and supplementary materials • Some course information will be available only on the web site

  4. What will we study? • Discuss the concept of crime • Identify the basic research methods and data resources used by criminologists • Identify the nature and extent of various types of crime

  5. What will we study? • Identify a variety of crime patterns and trends and describe their relationship to such variables as gender, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

  6. What will we study? • Identify the basic biological, psychological, and sociological explanations for criminal behavior and apply them to a variety of fact patterns (free will vs determinism) • Identify and describe effective strategies for preventing and controlling crime

  7. Determinism vs free will • Pick up a number [2……9]

  8. Class Format • Lectures • Discussions at various levels • In-class Assignments • Individual Projects • Group Activities

  9. Discussion Sessions • Occasionallywe willhave discussion sessions during which we will talk about readings assigned in advance • All the readings will be posted on the course website

  10. For discussion session: • Read an article(s) and come prepared to engage in a critical discussion • Discussion leaders will be assigned in advance • Formulate at least one thought-provoking discussion question • Submit this question to the discussion leaders 48 hours prior to class

  11. Responsibilities as Discussion Leader(s) • Provide a brief, written summary, synthesizing the week’s readings. In no more than one page, describe how the articles help us better understand the central, guiding question in the class. Why do people commit crime? • Organize a discussion around themes you’ve identified in the readings. Facilitate the discussion, especially when it is faltering, rather than make a presentation

  12. Quizzes • You will have10 quizzes during the semester pertaining to the course readings or videos

  13. Exams • You will be tested three times during the semester • The exams will seek to gauge your ability to draw inferences from facts and logical deductions from theories and your ability to connect theories learned in the course to real world applications

  14. Final paper • 1. Community Response Project • 2. Personal Experience Paper

  15. Community Response Project • Students will seek out and observe any criminology-related aspect of their choice in our local community in order to gain a first-hand experience or the subject • Next, they will then write a paper for the problem identified and observed • You can interview either a person who is engaged in delinquency or law enforcement personnel who are acting in an official capacity • The paper must written in first person with initial section explaining where and what problem or circumstance the student witnessed.

  16. Personal Experience Paper • This paper requires you to apply the criminological theories we discussed in class to your own experiences • Using at least two theories, explain why you have or have not engaged in criminal behavior • This paper requires you to use critical thinking skills to apply abstract theories to personal experience and to complete a critical self-analysis of your own behavior. • If you do not feel comfortable revealing your behavior to me, choose someone you know very well and who has engaged in criminal behavior, interview him/her figure out the source of his/her behavior.

  17. Final Grade

  18. Final Grade Scale

  19. Quotes from Real Criminals • “The idea of committing an armed robbery comes into your mind when your pockets are low; it speaks loudly when you need things and you are not able to get what you need” (Wright and Decker, 1997)

  20. Quotes from Real Criminals • “I worked as a busboy for a week once. It was like being a pig in everyone else’s slop. Why should I put up with that shit? Doing crime is a lot more fun and pays a lot better” (Hagan, 1997)

  21. Quotes from Criminals • “We were at the White Castle one day and one of my partners stepped on this guy’s foot…He punched my partner in the face and we just got to fighting” (quote from a gang member in Decker and Van Winkle, 1996)

  22. What is crime? • In-class Assignment # 1

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