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Crj322 Course Guide
Crj322 Course Guide
Crj322 Course Guide
Course Guide
Prerequisites
CRJ105
Course Description
This course provides a broad range of topics relevant to criminal behavior and the development of
the personality. Biological, psychological, and social structural factors which influence the possible
origin of criminal behavior, as well as criminal justice and societal approaches for preventing crime
are addressed.
Instructional Materials
Required Resources
Anthony Walsh. 2020. Criminology: The Essentials. CRJ322 Sage Publications Inc 4th
edition textbook available at https://www.strayerbookstore.com
Euan Kerr. December 12, 2018. Departed Strib Film Critic Disputed Plagiarism Charge.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/12/12/departed-star-tribune-critic-disputes-plagiarism-
charge
Sean Sullivan. October 10, 2014. Army War College Revokes Sen John Walsh's Degree
Over Plagiarism. https://advance-lexis-com.libdatab.strayer.edu/api/permalink/65261a1b-
7732-43ee-bf10-c1851f94b9e8/?context=1516831
Jamie Ducharme. 2019. Does ZIP Code Equal Life Expectancy?
http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=a9h&AN=137195876&site=eds-live&scope=site
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Killary Hoffower. January 2020. A Woman Who Studied 600 Millionaires Discovered Where
You Choose to Live Has 2 Effects on Your Ability to Build Wealth. https://advance-lexis-
com.libdatab.strayer.edu/api/permalink/e5869755-3cea-415f-9cd3-edb7d9987ffd/?
context=1516831
Supplemental Resources
Federal Bureau of Investigation. No date. Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR).
https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr
Eurostat. No date. Crime and Criminal Justice - Overview.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/crime
Bureau of Justice Statistics. No date. Data Collection: National Crime Victimization Survey
(NCVS). https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245
Federal Bureau of Investigation. No date. National Incident-Based Reporting System
(NIBRS). https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr/nibrs
Law Library - American Law and Legal Information. No date. Causes of Crime.
https://law.jrank.org/pages/12004/Causes-Crime.html
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Analyze the correlation between crime patterns and demographics, such as
gender, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
Week 1 - To Do List
Discuss: Introduce yourself and participate in the discussion, Plagiarism As a Deviant Behavior.
Week 2 - To Do List
Week 3 - To Do List
Learn: Read Chapters 6, 7, and 8 (pp. 144–152 only) in your Criminology: The Essentials
textbook.
Learn: Review the Chapters 6, 7, and 8 (pp. 144–152 only) PowerPoint presentations.
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Week 3 - To Do List
Quiz: Complete the quiz covering Chapters 1, 4–7, and 8 (pp. 144–152 only).
Prepare: Familiarize yourself with the Criminology Theory Presentation assignment, due in Week
4.
Week 4 - To Do List
Discuss: Participate in the discussion, What Should the Legal Drinking Age Be?
Week 5 - To Do List
Learn: Read Chapter 8 (pp. 152–159 only) and Chapter 10 in your Criminology: The Essentials
textbook.
Learn: Review the Chapter 8 (pp.152–159 only) and Chapter 10 PowerPoint presentations.
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Week 5 - To Do List
Discuss: Participate in the discussion, ZIP Code As a Determinant of Health, Wealth, and
Criminal Behavior.
Week 6 - To Do List
Quiz: Complete the quiz covering Chapters 8 (pp. 152–159 only) and 9–11.
Prepare: Familiarize yourself with the Criminology Theory Application assignment, due in Week
7.
Week 7 - To Do List
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Week 8 - To Do List
Week 9 - To Do List
Discuss: Participate in the discussion, Greater Threat: Gang Member or White-Collar Criminal?
Prepare: Familiarize yourself with the Crime Trend Analysis assignment, due in Week 10.
Week 10 - To Do List
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Week 10 - To Do List
Week 11 - To Do List
Grading Scale
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Final Course Grade
Assignments
Summary
Click the linked activity title to view Criminology Theory Presentation assignment.
Text
Overview
As an initiative to improve police and community relations and to assist police officers in seeing
offenders more as human beings and less as simply the sum total of their offenses, your police
chief wants to implement empathy training. Empathy allows officers to better understand the
"why" behind behavior and can help officers improve their interactions with people during police
encounters.
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As a part of this initiative, you are responsible for selecting a criminology theory covered in your
textbook and preparing a PowerPoint presentation (10–12 content slides) to help educate your
colleagues about different causes of crime.
Exception: You may select any criminology theory covered in your textbook with one exception:
You may not select conflict theory as this theory is provided to you as an example.
Instructions
Create a PowerPoint presentation (10–12 content slides) in which you:
1. Explain your selected criminology theory, including its strengths and criticisms.
Do not select conflict theory, as this theory is covered in the sample presentation
provided.
Consult these support resources to help guide you in developing your presentation:
Criminology Theory Presentation Template [PPTX]: This resource is provided for you as a
guide only. Your presentation may vary from the template as long as you address the
assignment requirements.
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Sample Criminology Theory Presentation [PPTX]: This resource is provided to give you an
idea of what an effective presentation looks like. Once again, your presentation does not
have to look exactly like the sample. This is provided only to stimulate your thinking as you
get started on developing your presentation.
Formatting
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please
refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions. Note the following:
Use a readable size font (24 points or above) on your slides. For your slide notes, the
preferred method is to use Times New Roman font (size 12), single-spaced, with one-inch
margins on all sides.
Include a title slide containing the assignment title, your name, your professor's name, the
course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required number of slides.
Include a source list slide. Citations and references must follow SWS format. The source list
slide is not included in the required number of slides.
Learning Outcomes
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Scoring Guide
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Identify the major theorists behind this theory
and their role in its development. 10 %
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Unacceptable Needs Satisfactory Competent Exemplary
Improvement
Did not submit or Partially Satisfactorily Thoroughly
incompletely Insufficiently described de- described de- described de-
described de- described de- escalation escalation escalation
escalation escalation techniques and techniques and techniques and
techniques and techniques and community community community
community community policing policing policing
policing policing strategies strategies strategies
strategies strategies consistent with consistent with consistent with
consistent with consistent with your chosen your chosen your chosen
your chosen your chosen theory and theory and theory and
theory and theory and empathy empathy empathy
empathy empathy training. training. training.
training. training.
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Unacceptable Needs Satisfactory Competent Exemplary
Improvement
No references Meets the Meets the Meets or
provided. Does not meet required number number of exceeds the
the required of references; required number of
number of some references references; most required
references; all are poor-quality references are references; all
references are choices. high-quality references are
poor-quality choices. high-quality
choices. choices.
Summary
Click the linked activity title to view the Criminology Theory Application assignment.
Text
Overview
In this assignment, you are continuing on in your role as a police officer. The Chief wants to
continue her emphasis on empathy training. Now that she's comfortable that officers have a
grounding in criminology theory, she wants to see how effectively they are able to apply what
they've learned about criminology theory and empathy to their daily police work. As part of their
prework for an upcoming departmental training session, the chief wants all officers to complete a
chart that requires them to specify for 10 given scenarios:
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The crime committed and the underlying cause of the behavior, based on criminology
theories.
A police response to the scenario that addresses the behavior and provides a solution to the
incident.
Instructions
Complete the Criminology Theory Application Chart [DOCX], which identifies 10 scenarios of
criminal or deviant acts that officers are likely to encounter in performance of their duties.
The first scenario is completed for you as an example to guide your responses for the remaining
scenarios. For each scenario:
Submit the completed Criminology Theory Application Chart to the assignment area.
Formatting
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please
refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions. Note the following:
The preferred method is for your Criminology Theory Application Chart to be typed, single-
spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the assignment title, your name, your professor's name, the
course title, and the date.
Include a separate source list page. Citations and references must follow SWS format.
Learning Outcomes
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The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Scoring Guide
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Unacceptable Needs Satisfactory Competent Exemplary
Improvement
Did not submit or Partially outlined Satisfactorily Thoroughly
incompletely Insufficiently a responding outlined a outlined a
outlined a outlined a officer’s responding responding
responding responding response to the officer’s officer’s
officer’s officer’s scenario that response to the response to the
response to the response to the addresses the scenario that scenario that
scenario that scenario that behavior and addresses the addresses the
addresses the addresses the provides a behavior and behavior and
behavior and behavior and solution to the provides a provides a
provides a provides a incident. solution to the solution to the
solution to the solution to the incident. incident.
incident. incident.
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Summary
Click the linked activity title to view the Crime Trend Analysis assignment.
Text
Overview
In this assignment you are assuming the role of a state crime analyst. Your task is twofold:
Compile demographic and crime trend data for two cities (one U.S. city, one non-U.S. city).
Write a report for the mayors, police chiefs, and city councils of your selected cities in which
you:
Compare/contrast the data you've collected for the two cities.
Draw three to four major conclusions for each city based on your analysis.
Your first step is to choose the two cities you want to analyze. Select one U.S. city and one non-
U.S. city from the lists below.
1. U.S. Cities:
New York, NY.
Los Angeles, CA.
St. Louis, MO.
Philadelphia, PA.
Chicago, IL.
Houston, TX.
Phoenix, AZ.
2. Non-U.S. Cities:
Tokyo, Japan.
Mexico City, Mexico.
London, England.
Beijing, China.
Moscow, Russia.
Paris, France.
Madrid, Spain.
Instructions
For Part 1 of this assignment you are expected to fill out the City Demographic and Crime Trend
Analysis [DOCX] chart provided. Use the Sample City Demographic and Crime Trend Analysis
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Chart [DOCX] as an example. Note: This sample only provides data for one U.S. city. Remember
that you are responsible for completing the chart for one U.S. city and one non-U.S. city.
Fill out the chart by compiling the following demographic and crime trend data for one selected
U.S. city and one selected non-U.S. city:
1. Geographic location.
2. Total population.
3. Population by age.
4. Population by race.
5. Population by gender.
6. Population by socioeconomic status.
7. Number of sworn police officers.
8. Three types of violent crime for the past five years:
Total occurrences.
Rate per 100,000 people.
In Part 2 of this assignment you are expected to write a three- to four-page report in which you:
1. Compare/contrast the demographic and crime trend data you've collected for your two selected
cities.
2. Draw three to four conclusions, based on your analysis of each of your selected cities, to share
with the cities' mayors, police chiefs, and city councils.
3. Use three sources to support your writing.
Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate.
Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your
assignment.
Access the library or review library guides for help with research, writing, and
citation.
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The European Commission’s Eurostat.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey.
The Strayer University Library.
Reminder: Be sure to submit your completed City Demographic and Crime Trend Analysis Chart
and your written report to the assignment submission area in Blackboard.
Formatting
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please
refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions. Note the following:
The preferred method is for both parts of your assignment to be typed using Times New
Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Use single spaced for the City Demographic and Crime Trend Analysis Chart.
Use double spaced for your 3–4-page written report.
Include a cover page containing the assignment title, your name, your professor's name, the
course title, and the date.
Include a separate source list page. Citations and references must follow SWS format.
Learning Outcomes
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Analyze the correlation between crime patterns and demographics, such as gender, age,
ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
Scoring Guide
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Unacceptable Needs Satisfactory Competent Exemplary
Improvement
Did not submit or Partially Satisfactorily Thoroughly
incompletely Insufficiently compiled compiled compiled
compiled compiled demographic demographic demographic
demographic demographic and crime trend and crime trend and crime trend
and crime trend and crime trend data for one data for one data for one
data for one data for one selected U.S. selected U.S. selected U.S.
selected U.S. selected U.S. city and one city and one city and one
city and one city and one selected non- selected non- selected non-
selected non- selected non- U.S. city. U.S. city. U.S. city.
U.S. city U.S. city.
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Unacceptable Needs Satisfactory Competent Exemplary
Improvement
Did not submit or Partially drew Satisfactorily Thoroughly drew
incompletely Insufficiently three to four drew three to three to four
drew three to drew three to conclusions, four conclusions, conclusions,
four conclusions, four conclusions, based on your based on your based on your
based on your based on your analysis of each analysis of each analysis of each
analysis of each analysis of each of your selected of your selected of your selected
of your selected of your selected cities, to share cities, to share cities, to share
cities, to share cities, to share with the cities’ with the cities’ with the cities’
with the cities’ with the cities’ mayors, police mayors, police mayors, police
mayors, police mayors, police chiefs, and city chiefs, and city chiefs, and city
chiefs, and city chiefs, and city councils. councils. councils.
councils. councils.
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