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Prof. Michelle Furlow's Criminal Justice Courses

Aug 29 • 61 tweets • 48 min read

Hi friends! I'm live in A109 this morning.

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

Join me at 2pm to discuss!

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Good afternoon, all. I'm back home, live, to answer any & all of your questions. We will be covering chapter 01, #ChangingBoundariesOfCriminogy this morning.

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

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?

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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 of North America 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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TRUE / FALSE: Most American paper money has some traces of cocaine on it?

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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 being 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?

Posing As Someone Other Than Yourself Online

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Becoming Addicted To An Illegal Drug

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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?

Taking a towel home from the gym & not returning it

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Not returning a book to the library, never returning to avoid fees & fines.

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should or should not be a crime?

Failing to return the grocery cart to the designated rack in the parking lot

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We are at the ONE hour mark, my friends! Where does the time go? 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, later this week, I'll post a supplementary look at how we decide what is criminal.

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

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