March 2011 Archives

People's Choice

Choose something related to CH 21 and/or this week's topic of terrorism, reflect, and write about it. Provide links as appropriate.

Review these sites: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/index.html

How does violence grow or accelerate to such a large scale? Does our scientific understanding of self, and dyadic/familial violence have any relation to large scale violence? How? Why or why not? Are there characteristics of this kind of ethno-political violence that are special or different from the other types of violence that we have covered? Explain your answer.

Next, choose one of the documented cases of genocide (a list is available in the second link above). Learn more about that situationa and report on it here.

Review the FBI's website on organized crime. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime Follow links as appropriate.

Review and reflect as usual. Then, consider the following and respond:

Violence is big business. How do the economics of violence encourage and promote it continuuing?

Review the information available here http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/youthviolence/schoolviolence/

make sure to go beyond that page as there are several links to follow.

First, why would this information be on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's website?! How does this topic relate to their mission?

Generally review and reflect on the site as you have for previous assignments. In addition, address the following questions: Who do you think should be the target of prevention strategies? Why? Knowing what you know about violence from a theoretical and scientific perspective, what recommendations would you give to a local school that was concerned about preventing school violence?

Go to the Southern Poverty Law Center's website

http://www.splcenter.org/

Spend at least 30 minutes browsing and reading the site.

What did you learn about the Center and about hate crime? What most surprised you? What theoretical perspectives that we have covered so far best relate to the site or information presented? Why?

Please reflect on the episode Race War from the Gangland series that we watched on tuesday (available streamed on netflix; Gangland season 1).

In your reflection make sure to incorporate information from Ch 17, your expert topic if appropriate, the general aggression model, and if/how/why this type of intergroup violence is different from self or dyadic violence.

ch 16

ch 12

have at it!

Read ch 15 or 14 as per your interests and expert topic.

you know what to do from there!

Choose ch 18 or 13, based on your interests and expert area if appropriate.

you know what to do!