Welcome to Advanced Criminology SocAdmJ 497

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Welcome to Advanced Criminology (Soc/AdmJ 497)

• Dr. Eric Silver
• T/Th 230-345pm
• 108 Sackett

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Core Questions

• Why do some people commit crimes, while others do
  not?
• Why do some places have higher crime rates, while
  others do not?
• Different theories provide different answers to
  these questions and have different policy
  implications

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Course Layout

• PART 1 Overview of criminology
• PART 2 Theories that focus on individuals
• PART 3 Theories that focus on society

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Learning
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What to Expect

• Attendance will be taken on most days
• Two freebees
• Dont be late
• Combine lecture discussion
• Participation credit

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Grading

• Exams
• 75 (multiple choice, T/F, short answer)
• Term paper apply theories
• 25
• Attendance
• Minus 1 point for each absence after 2nd
• Class participation
• Fudge room for grades on the borderline

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Course Web Site

• Updated schedule of topics readings
• Lecture overheads
• Announcements
• Instructor contact information

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Getting to Know You

• Class year?
• Major?
• Male or female?
• From lower, middle, or upper class family?
• Ever been arrested?
• Ever been convicted?
• Pro death penalty?
• Ever shoplifted?
• Ever trade sex for money?
• Smoked pot in past 6 month?

• Ever sold an illegal drug?
• Ever pass out from drugs or alcohol?
• Ever stole from a roommate?
• Ever had a homosexual/lesbian encounter?
• Do you smoke cigarettes?
• Ever cheated on a test?
• Do you have a tattoo?
• Do have pierced body part (other than ears)?