SOC 305 Crime and Society Course Material Week 1 to 5 Ashford

SOC 305 Crime and Society Course Material
Week 1 to 5 Ashford
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SOC 305 Crime and Society Course Material Week 1 to 5 Ashford
SOC 305 (Crime & Society)
Week 1
Week 1 DQ 1 Moral Panic
After viewing the video, Gender & Crime, please address each of the
following questions:
1. Is crime normal in a society?
2. What is the purpose of crime and punishment?

3. How much crime is “enough,” and how would this be measured?
4. How is crime defined?
5. What problems are defined as worthy of social control?
6. What is the influence of the media?
Week 1 DQ 2 Race and Death Row
This discussion focuses on topics addressed in several chapters of your
text – the death penalty and discrimination. Although first discussed
in Chapter 2, the death penalty is also discussed in Chapter 4. Rather
than thinking in rigid terms about reading assignments, please use
your textbook as a resource. After reading the text and watching the
video, Injustice for Blacks in Alabama, respond to each of the
following questions:
Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your
claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other
scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at
least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.
1. What do you think best explains high incarceration rates for
Blacks compared to their percent of the general population?
2. What do you think explains high incarceration rates for Blacks on
death row?
3. Is institutionalized racism to blame for these disparate rates?
Please explain.

4. Are genuinely high rates of Black crime to blame? Why or why
not?
5. What other factors explain the high incarceration rates for Black
men?
6. How can this problem be solved?
Week 1 Assignment:
Week 1 Quiz 10 MCQ’s
Week 2
Week 2 DQ 1 Legal Representation and Social Class
After listening to the interview with Stephen B. Bright, The quality of
a legal defense: Does it matter if you’re rich or poor?, please respond
to the following:
1. How does geographic location play a role in the quality of
representation provided by the public defender?
2. How does the overburdened public defense system in many
areas contribute to issues of wrongful conviction?
3. Contrast the legal representation described by Bright to the level
of representation available to white-collar, corporate, and
environmental crimes.
4. This discussion highlights two issues – wrongful conviction and
the overburdened public defender system. How can these
problems be solved?

Week 2 DQ 2 The War on Drugs
After reading this week’s required text, please respond to the
following:
1. In your opinion, what have been among the main outcomes of
the War on Drugs?
2. How close has it come to its original goals of reducing drug use
and punishing drug suppliers?
3. How has this “war” impacted African-American males?
4. How has this “war” impacted immigration policy?
5. How will this “war” end?
Week 2 Assignments:
Final Paper Preprations Overcrowding in Correctional
institutions (1350+ Words)
Week 2 Quiz 10 MCQ’s
Week 3
Week 3 DQ 1 Child or Adult?
Determining whether to try a child in the juvenile or the criminal justice system w
have an impact on every step of his or her experience. Although the exact laws an
practices of the systems vary from state to state, broad underlying beliefs
differentiate the two systems. While the juvenile system is often thought to be
more lenient in its punishments, there are often stricter regulations throughout t

process. In the juvenile system a child may not have a right to a jury trial or bail
Juvenile records are not open to public access like criminal records and parole is
very different between the two systems. When the child in question is considered
child, the courts act as more of a parent attempting to punish but also protect.
Week 3 DQ 2 Relationships in Prison
Women’s relationships in prison commonly fulfill an emotional need.
They are different from men’s sexual relationships in prison in that
they are less likely to involve coercion or be motivated by power and
status grabs. In addition to romantic relationships, female inmates are
also likely to form prison families with roles that mimic mothers,
sisters, and even grandmothers. For many inmates, their prison family
is the first positive female role modeling they have encountered.
Ashford SOC 305 Week 3 (Myths and Reality of Crime). 900+ Words
Week 3 Quiz 10 MCQ’s
Week 4
Week 4 DQ 1 Honor Killings
After reading the articles, Are honor killings simply domestic
violence? and ‘Honour’ crimes are domestic abuse, plain and simple,
please respond to each of the following questions:
1. Are honor killings simply domestic violence?
2. What similarities do honor killings have with other forms of
interpersonal crime? What differences do they exhibit?
In your opinion, what is the best way for the criminal justice system to treat and

espond to honor killings?
Week 4 DQ 2 Hate Groups and Hate Crime
Please view the video, Inside USA – Rise of hate, Part 1, or read the
article, Number of U.S. hate groups is rising, report says, in
preparation for this discussion.
Were you aware of the number and range of recognized hate groups
in these states? This video helps us learn about hate groups in the
United States. In addition, please visit the Teaching Tolerance website
and view the Hate Map. Please review the maps for the state in which
you live, or a state of your choice. Respond to each of the following
questions:
Week 4 Assignment: Week 4 Quiz 10 MCQ’s
Week 5
Week 5 DQ 1 School Shootings
As we learn in the readings, media reports of school crime tend to
create misconceptions of a danger that is actually quite small for the
overwhelming majority of school users. In fact, given the number of
students, teachers, and other personnel in schools on any given day, it
is quite astounding how few violent episodes there are. To track
violence in schools, read the US Department of Justice and US
Department of Education report, Indicators of School Crime and
Safety: 2011. After reading the report, please address each of the
following:

1. Refer to a specific statistic found on the site, with proper
citation. Tell us why this statistic surprised you, confirmed your
belief, etc.
2. In 81% of violent, targeted school attacks, at least one person
knew someone was conceiving of or planning an attack. In most
cases no one came forward with this information. Why do you
think this is?
3. What are some significant differences between on-campus crime
and crime in the general population?
4. Discuss the challenged inherent in preventing school and
workplace violence.
Week 5 DQ 2 Privatization
After reading the two articles addressing privatization, Arizona’s
private prisons: A bad bargain andThe case for privatizing California’s
prisons, respond to each of the following questions:
1. In your opinion, what groups of people benefit most when the
prison system is capitalized? What groups or people benefit
least?
2. In your informed opinion, are private prisons a bargain? Why or
why not? Has the general public reached the same conclusion?
Why or why not?
3. Has your opinion about private prisons changed as a result of
this research?

4. What problems come with privatizing traditional government
services like incarceration, military work, or policing? What
benefits?
5. What do for-profit prisons say about society’s expectations of
incarceration and criminal activity? What do they say about
society’s opinion of inmates?