WORTH: 2% of semester grade
CAN THIS BE TURNED IN LATE?: NO
DUE: 10/28 by blackboard by classtime
BE
SURE TO FOLLOW THE FILE-NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR THIS COURSE
(5% penalty if you do not).
All files should be saved on your computer
as: your last name, followed by an underscore ("_"),
followed by the first two letters of your first name, followed
by an underscore ("_"), followed
by the assignment number. So if a student named Saddam Hussein
were to submit assignment number 13, the file name would
be:
hussein_sa_13.doc
THIS
IS ASSIGNMENT 13
note: question 5 below is worth 50% of your grade on this assignment and the other questions are all worth merely 10%.
1) According to the author, what shift in popular criminological thought was produced by the rise of the psycho killer in movies and television?
Be sure to use your own words in your answer and not those of the author; if you have specific questions about the meaning of the text be sure to contact Prof. Umbach.
Hint: knowing the meaning of the word authoritative will be useful.
2)
Why was the idea of the psycho killer in movies and television so useful for the FBI in the 1980s and why did the FBI need help in the 1980s?
3) The case of Jack the Ripper reveals which group in London in the 1880s was thought popularly to be deviant and homicidal--so much so that hundreds of extra police had to brought in to protect them in the wake of initial publicity around the murders of prostitutes ?
4) Criminologists distinguish between "instrumental" and "expressive" crime. Explain why a drug dealer killing to protect his turf is an example of instrumental rather than expressive crime.
5) The author argues that the films Psycho (1960) and Silence of the Lambs (1991) represent shifting popular thought about which institutions possess authoritative knowledge about criminals. Using the familiar cl/ev/wa format and evidence in the form of direct quotations from the text, summarize this argument.
Be sure to have at least 3 pieces of evidence in your paragraph(s) and to use direct quotations of no more than 10 words. (see here for how to reduce quotations)
We will have discussed this idea in class before you did the reading, so your goal here is more to write as clearly as possible and employ the best evidence and less to get the "right answer" since, well, we did that in class.
(this question is worth 50% of your grade for this assignment)
6) The author argues that the rise in the public's faith in the FBI's ability to "profile" criminals happened neither by accident nor as a consequence of a well-established track record by the Bureau. Explain.