WORTH: 2% of semester grade
CAN THIS BE TURNED IN LATE?: NO
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 14, the file name would
be:
hussein_sa_14.doc
THIS
IS ASSIGNMENT 14
Remember, you can skip the first long paragraph on p. 14 of Criminology Goes to the Movies; instead, start where it says "Rational Choice Theory"
(if you skip the optional extra-credit question below keep in mind that the EVIDENCE CHART below is NOT optional)
Question on Criminology Goes to the Movies
1) Explain what was the same and what was different between the "rational choice" vision of Beccaria in the eighteenth century and the "rational choice" vision of James Q. Wilson and others that emerged in the 1970s?
Keep in mind the the material you need to answer the question is spread across several pages; accordingly, don't look for the one line answer!
Be sure to organize your paragraph around the familiar cl/ev/wa format and include evidence in the form of direct quotations.
Question on Thinking About Crime
2) Wilson argues that a belief in crime's social origins--such as poverty and racism--emerged in the 1960s not because of what criminology itself had discovered about what causes crime but for OTHER reasons. How and why (according to Wilson) did a belief on the social origins of crime emerge?
Keep in mind the the material you need to answer the question is spread across several pages; accordingly, don't look for the one line answer!
Be sure to organize your paragraph around the familiar cl/ev/wa format and include evidence in the form of direct quotations.
EXTRA CREDIT Question on Correctional Theory
Extra credit question is worth up to 15 extra points.
3) According to Cullen and Johnson, what simple fact did James Q. Wilson get wrong that calls into question Wilson's arguments in favor of incarceration and why does that fact undermine Wilson's argument. Be specific.
Keep in mind the the material you need to answer the question is spread across several pages; accordingly, don't look for the one line answer!
Be sure to organize your paragraph around the familiar cl/ev/wa format and include evidence in the form of direct quotations.
RECOMMENDED, BUT NOT REQUIRED:
Evidence Chart for upcoming paper.
Look now to that assignment.
Then, fill in the evidence chart that you can download here.