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24 Aug, 87 tweets, 69 min read

Hi friends! I'll be online today at 1:00pm, cst, to start our discussion of #Criminology.

Let's start with a THINKING CHALLENGE: Should an employee taking a company pen home for personal use be considered a crime or not?

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Good afternoon! Today I am going to introduce "What is Criminology" to my #CRJ105 students.

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If you're a Twitter-Newbie, hopefully you're a little more acquainted after our "Welcome To The Course" yesterday.

If you still have questions, worry not! I'm here to help

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Each week, I'll be covering a chapter from the text here on Twitter. I'm *TRYING* to simulate what our in-class discussions would look like. You can follow along in real time or at your own pace.

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I do a variety of fun (??) exercises in these discussions. I like to ask poll questions, provide insight from "guest" speakers, and try to answer ALL your questions, as well

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So let me get to know a little about YOU before we get started ...

Are you a Criminal Justice major?

I majored in History & French

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Why are you reading this thread?

I'm here because ... well ... I'm teaching the class!

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Let's get started!

Welcome to Criminology, today will be an overview of our first chapter in the text (Chapter 01) but also give some insight as to what you can do with criminology in the larger study of Criminal Justice

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Many of my Moraine Valley CRJ students are interested in law enforcement. What are your career ambitions?

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What area of study do you think plays the most significant role in understanding why people break the law?

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Today we will look at criminology in terms of the economy, the environment, and globalization

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What aspect of #Criminology is most interesting to you?

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Let's add another THINKING CHALLENGE:

WOULD YOU RATHER:
An innocent man be wrongly convicted
– OR –
a guilty man go free? WHY?

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What?

What is the significance of the above question, wouldn't most of us not want either?

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We are going to look at how Americans don't always agree what the primary goal of the Criminal Justice system should be.

WOULD YOU RATHER:
Crime control
-or-
Rights protected?

WHY?

We will examine a broad range of criminal behavior this semester, let's introduce a few of these top trending criminology topics

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“The use or threat of violence directed at people or governments in response to past action and/or to bring about a change of policy that is consistent with the terrorists’ objectives.”

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Terrorism is at the center of many forms of criminality that feed or are fed by terrorism.

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Why should criminologists study terrorism?

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What form of terrorism is most pressing to most Americans today?

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What form of terrorism is of most interest to you?

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We will examine the complex relationships between various forms of crime & their international impact

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The globalizing era has produced an explosion in the volume of illegitimate commercial and financial transactions. North American and European banking and investment institutions have been flooded with laundered and ill-gotten gains

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“Dirty” money cannot be spent freely. While there is evidence that terrorist weapons have been obtained by direct exchange for drugs, for dirty money, most expenditures by terrorists are for goods or services obtained on the free market

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How does money laundering work? - Delena D. Spann

ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do…...

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Please don't leave me hanging that money laundering always makes you think of this scene ...

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Cyberspace is there for everyone to use—or to abuse. And the abuses are increasingly being discovered and, indeed, legislated as crime

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Have you been the victim of online identity theft?

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The market in small arms is vast and mostly clandestine. What is new, however, is the market for weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, biological, and chemical.

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In the issue of firearms, do you consider yourself to be ...

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Smuggling would-be illegal migrants from less-desirable homelands to more promising lands of opportunity has become a huge criminal enterprise involving millions of human beings

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THINKING CHALLENGE: What country is currently considered the #1 purchaser of human trafficking / sex for trade?

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Many of the countries of destination fear the growth of immigrant communities that might be terrorist havens. Even greater is the fear that terrorist organizations deliberately infiltrate their members into immigrant populations

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Terrorists, especially those with millennial goals or of religious or political extremism, seek to destroy past cultures and to impose their own vision of culture.

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There is no limit to the reach of criminological inquiry, because every human activity is capable of deviance that produces significant harm, thus requiring criminological scrutiny

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THINKING CHALLENGE:

"Every human activity is capable of deviance that produces significant harm"

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THINKING CHALLENGE:

"Every human being is born inherently good"

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THINKING CHALLENGE:

"Basic human nature is collective, cooperative"

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In 1885, the Italian law professor Raffaele Garofalo coined the term “criminology”.

The French anthropologist Paul Topinard used it for the first time in French in 1887

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Criminologists use the term deviance to describe behavior that violates social norms, including laws.

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The difference between crime and other forms of deviance is subject to constant change and may vary from one state or country to another and from one time to another

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A crime is any human conduct that violates a criminal law and is subject to punishment.

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THINKING CHALLENGE:

Who in a society decides—and when and under what circumstances—which acts that are already considered deviant in that society should be elevated to the level of gross deviance or crime, subject to punishment?

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This brings us back to the start of our discussion, let's see how similar or different our views on what should - or shouldn't be - a crime

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Exchanging money for sex between two consenting adults

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Playing poker for money with friends

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

An industrial company polluting a river

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Attempting suicide

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Smoking Marijuana

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Taking a candy bar from the store without paying for it

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

An employee taking a company pen home for personal use

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Calling someone else a racially derogatory name

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Kneeling during the national anthem

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Entering a government building during a public protest

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Purposely, publicly using an individual's dead name

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How do we come to an understanding about what behaviors are so heinous, they should be outlawed?

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The consensus model. According to this view, certain acts are deemed so threatening to the society’s survival that they are designated crimes.

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Consensus assumes that members of a society agree on what is right and wrong

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Some criminologists view the making of laws in a society from a different theoretical perspective.

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According to the conflict model, the criminal law expresses the values of the ruling class in a society, and the criminal justice system is a means of controlling the classes that have no power

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Conflict theory encourages questioning how the system operates and who it benefits

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Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the process of making laws, of breaking laws, and of reacting toward the breaking of laws

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Criminology is a discipline composed of the accumulated knowledge of many other disciplines

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The study of making laws includes collecting and understanding criminal statistics

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Do red light cameras work?

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Criminologists examine what laws are effective at changing behavior

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Sutherland, in saying that criminologists have to study the process of lawbreaking, had much more in mind than determining whether someone has violated the criminal law. He was referring to the process of breaking laws

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There is no agreement as to why some people are prone to commit crime and others are not. Researchers have approached the question from different perspectives.

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The study of reactions to lawbreaking demonstrates that society has always tried to control or prevent norm-breaking

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Does imprisonment work?

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The research has also revealed that society’s reaction to lawbreaking has often been irrational, arbitrary, emotional, politically motivated, and counterproductive

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Scientists who study the criminal justice system are frequently referred to as “criminal justice specialists.”

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The United States has well over 50 criminal justice systems—those of the 50 states and of the federal government, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and the military

Crimes that have an interstate or international aspect are under the jurisdiction of federal authorities, and such offenses are prosecuted under the federal criminal code.

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What aspect of Criminology seems the most interesting?

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Crime, like life itself, has become globalized, and responses to lawbreaking have inevitably extended beyond local and national borders

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The perception that the crime problem is increasing or decreasing rests on a fear of crime that is fueled by media portrayals

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In fact, some criminological research demonstrates the futility of escalating punishments and often points to measures of quite a different nature as more promising, more humane, and more cost-beneficial

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What do Criminologists actually do?

What are YOUR career goals? How might understanding criminology help in your line of work?

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THINKING CHALLENGE: How does criminology help someone who wants to work in law enforcement?

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For my students, for credit, respond anywhere IN this thread with your thoughts, questions, follow-up.

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Include the link to your tweet in the discussion board. Extra credit if you include a picture of your pet(s) with your twitter comment

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This concludes our introductory look at Criminology, our next discussion, next week, we will look at measuring & defining #crime.

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Overall, how would you grade today's discussion?

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Thank you for following along. RT-ing the poll questions is greatly appreciated, as the most participation, the more discussion. Have a great afternoon, all!

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