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ED 200A – Foundations of Criminology

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Welcome to this course (ED 200A) Foundations of Criminology. This is one

of the specialization courses for Master of Science in Criminal Justice provided
under CMO 47 s 2006. This is a comprehensive study of Criminology as a science.
It covers the contribution of Criminology to different disciplines like law,
jurisprudence, anthropology, sociology, history, medicine, and other allied
disciplines from classical times to present.
Course Structure
This course is structured based on the intended course learning outcomes

(CO). Each CO has an equivalent assessment paper that you will work on. The
details of the assessment paper are explicitly reflected for you to be guided. Among
the details, I would like you to deeply understand the criteria of the assessment
paper. In each assessment paper, I have enumerated potential research articles and
essays as well as links that are available and can be downloaded from the University
online databases. Please note that you are not limited to these papers hence, you
are highly encouraged to maximize the rich collection of the University’s library of
peer reviewed and credible articles.
First Course Outcome and First Assessment Paper
CO Assessment Task Assessment

Schedule
1. Determine the contribution of Witten Report 2nd Week

Criminology to different disciplines
like law, jurisprudence, anthropology,
sociology, history, medicine, and
other allied disciplines

Assessment Paper Details

Assessment Details
Task
Written Report  In this task, you are required to write an article about contribution or
relationship of criminology to sociology, anthropology, psychology,
and medicine. The means that you will need to submit four articles on
the mentioned topics.
 This task is designed for you to demonstrate your ability in written
communication skill.
 Aside from submitting your output to Blackboard, you are also
expected to present the summary to the class thru online. The course
administrator will inform you of your online presentation schedule and
details. This also means that you are required to participate in the BB
portal discussion (at least once a week).
 You will be graded according to the following criteria (see rubric
attached).
 1. Depth of analysis 10 pts.
2. Constructive alignment 20 pts.
3. Link to research 10 pts.
4. Academic literacy – citation, grammar
Conventions 10 pts.
TOTAL 50 pts.
Procedural criteria:
- Number of words: 1800-2000 (+/-10%) – A4, Aerial 12
- Margin (Left: 1.5’, top, bottom and right: 1’)

expected to present the summary to the class thru online via power
point presentation.
 The course administrator will inform you of your online presentation

schedule and details. This also means that you are required to
participate in the BBCollab portal discussion (at least three times in
a week).
Sociology and Criminology. https://law.jrank.org/pages/5884/Criminology-

Sociology-Criminology.html
During the twentieth century, the sociological approach to criminology became the
most influential approach. Sociology is the study of social behavior, systems, and

structures. In relation to criminology, it may be divided into social-structural and

social-process approaches.
Social Structural Criminology Social-structural approaches to criminology examine

the way in which social situations and structures influence or relate to criminal
behavior. An early example of this approach, the ecological school of criminology,
was developed in the 1920s and 1930s at the University of Chicago. It seeks to
explain crime’s relationship to social and environmental change. For example, it
attempts to describe why certain areas of a city will have a tendency to attract crime
and also have less-vigorous police enforcement. Researchers have found that urban
areas in transition from residential to business uses are most often targeted by
criminals. Such communities often have disorganized social networks that foster a
weaker sense of social standards.
Another social-structural approach is the conflict school of criminology. It traces its

roots to Marxist theories that saw crime as ultimately a product of conflict between
different classes under the system of capitalism. Criminology conflict theory suggests
that the law of society emerge out of conflict rather than out of consensus. It holds
that laws are made by the group that is in power, to control those who are not in
power. Conflict theorists propose, as do other theorists, that those who commit
crimes are not fundamentally different from the rest of the population. They call the
idea that society may be clearly divided into criminals and noncriminal dualistic
fallacy, or misguided notion. These theorists maintain, instead, that the determination
of whether someone is a criminal or not often depends on the way society reacts to
those who deviate from accepted norms. Many conflict theorists and others argue
that minorities and poor people are more quickly labeled as criminals than are
members of the majority and wealthy individuals.
Critical criminology, also called radical criminology, shares with conflict criminology a
debt to Marxism. It came into prominence in the early 1970s and attempted to explain
contemporary social upheavals. Critical criminology relies on economic explanations
of behavior and argues that economic and social inequalities cause criminal
behavior. It focuses less on the study of individual criminals, and advances the belief
that existing crime cannot be eliminated within the capitalist system. It also asserts,
like the conflict school, that law ha inherent bias in favor of the upper or ruling class,
and that the state and its legal system exist to advance the interest of the ruling
class. Critical criminologists argue that corporate, political, and environmental crime
are under reported and inadequately addressed in the current criminal justice
system.
Others using the socio-cultural approach have studied GANGS, juvenile delinquency,
and the relationship between family structure and criminal behavior.

Social-Process Criminology theories attempt to explain how people become

criminals. These theories developed through recognition of the fact that not all people
who are exposed to the same social-structural conditions became criminals. They
focus on criminal behavior as learned behavior.
Edwin H Sutherland (1883-1950), a U.S. sociologist and criminologist who first

presented his ideas in the 1920s and 1930s, advanced the theory of differential
association to explain criminal behavior. He emphasized that criminal behavior is
learned in interaction with others, usually in small groups, and that criminals learn to
favor criminal behavior over noncriminal behavior through association with both
forms of behavior in different degrees. As Sutherland wrote, “When persons become
criminal, they do so because of isolation from ant criminal patterns”. Although his
theory has been greatly influential, Sutherland himself admitted that it did not
satisfactorily explain all criminal behavior. Later theories have modified the approach
in an attempt to correct its shortcomings.
Control theory, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, attempts to explain ways to train
people to engage in la abiding behavior. Although there are different approaches
within control theory, they share the view that humans require nurturing in order to
develop attachments or bonds to people and those personal bonds are key in
producing internal controls such as conscience and guilt and external controls such
as shame. According to this view, crime is the result of insufficient attachment and
commitment to others.
Walter C Reckless developed one version of control theory, called containment. He

argued that a combination of internal psychological containments and external social
containments prevents people from deviating from social norms. In simple
communities, social pressure to conform to community standards, usually enforced
by social ostracism, was sufficient to control behavior. As societies became more
complex, internal containments played a more crucial role in determining whether
people behave according to public laws. Furthermore, containment theorists have
found that internal containments require a positive self-image. All too often, a sense
of alienation from society and its norms forms in modern individuals, who, as a result,
do not develop internal containment mechanisms.
The sociologist Travis Hirschi has developed his own control theory that attempts to
explain conforming, or lawful, rather than deviant, or unlawful, behavior. He stresses
the importance of the individual’s bond to society in determining conforming behavior.
His research has found that socioeconomic class has little to do with determining
delinquent behavior, and that young people who are not very attached to their
parents or to school are more likely to be delinquent than those who are strongly
attached. He also found that youths who have a strongly positive view of their own
accomplishments are more likely to view society’s laws as valid constraints on their
behavior.

Timmermans, S. and Gabe, J. (2002). Connecting criminology and sociology of

health and illness. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-
9566.00306
Although scholars in sociology of health and illness and criminology have long been
interested in questions of authority, expertise, social control, legitimacy and
credibility, the two fields have developed largely independently of one another.
Sociologists studying health and illness have sustained an interest in issues of social
control ever since Talcott Parsons conceptualized physicians as moral gatekeepers,
helping to maintain the integrative function of society. The physicians’ main function
consisting of normalizing ‘deviant’ illness through the invasive treatment of the body
when physicians assigned the ‘sick role’ to patients, they legitimated a temporally
limited state of deviance. In Parsons’ theory, physicians not only treated people to
retake their roles in the labor force and other institutions but they verified the
legitimacy of illnesses; defining what qualifies as a bona fide reason to abandon
temporarily responsibilities in society and take up the ‘sick role’.
Criminal Psychologist vs. Criminologist. Charon.

https://work.chron.com/criminal-psychologist-vs-criminologist-16037.html.
Although both criminologists and criminal psychologists study criminals, their focus is
very different, Criminology is the study of the causes of crime and ways to prevent
and control it; while criminal psychology focuses on studying the thoughts, feelings
and behaviors of criminals. A criminologist might ask questions such as, is poverty a
driving force behind high crime rates? While criminal psychologist might ask “What
mental illnesses does Mr. Smith, who committed a crime, suffer from?”
As an immediate difference between forensic psychology and criminology,

criminology is a multidisciplinary degree, with student taking courses in psychology,
sociology, public health, statistics, epidemiology, law and neuroscience. The focus is
on theories of crime, factors influencing crime, history of crime and control and
prevention programs. Meanwhile, criminal psychologists take courses mostly within
psychology department, focusing on how to interpret psychological tests and theories
using criminal population norms. Accredited psychology programs require supervised
field work, giving students a chance to evaluate and diagnose criminals. Most states
require psychologists to earn a doctoral degree in psychology.
Adshead, G. (2016). The Criminal Mind: The relationship between criminology

and psychology. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-criminal-
mind-the- relationships-between-criminology-and-psychology
Modern criminologists assume that there is a complex relationship between the

criminal rule breaker, the criminal law and the offence. In classical and ancient world,
there was no such assumption. For example, the Judaic Old Testament sets out
clearly how social rules regulating behavior become laws; the breaking of which

justify condemnation and exclusion of rule breakers. Anyone who broke the law was
marked out as a sinner as well as an offender; an offender against God, and who
therefore could not be trusted. Social laws and God’s laws were one; and so a law
breaker is amorally sinful person also. Despite this all-or-nothing approach to
condemnation. Judaic tradition also recognized a need for due process of hearing
evidence and trial. Identifying the offender led to condemnation and punishment;
although the offender did not have to be human. Things that caused harm to others
could also be deemed to be sinful and subject to punishment; for example, animals
such as a scapegoat could take the punishment instead of a person.
Anthropological criminology.
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Anthropological_criminology
Anthropological criminology (sometimes referred to as criminal anthropology, literally

a combination of the study of the human species and the study of criminals) is a field
of offender profiling, based on perceived links between the nature of a crime and the
personality or physical appearance of the offender. Although similar to physiognomy
and phrenology, the term criminal anthropology is generally reserved for the works of
the Italian school of criminology of the late 19 th century (Cesare Lombroso, Enrico
Ferri, and Raffaele Gruffalo). Lombroso thought that criminals were born with inferior
physiological differences which were detectable. He popularized the notion of “born
criminal” and thought that criminality was an atavism or hereditary disposition. His
central idea was to locate crime completely within the individual and utterly divorce it
from the surrounding social conditions and structures. A founder of the Positivist
school of criminology, Lombroso hereby opposed social positivism developed by the
Chicago school and environmental criminology.
Academic Prompts
After reading the above academic papers, it is now time for you to participate in the
academic discussion in Blackboard’s Forum feature. Further, you are reminded that
you are free and highly encouraged to disagree with or critique your classmates’
arguments. At the minimum, you are required to draw conclusions, synthesize or
analyze your classmates’ arguments and the academic papers that you have read.
Below are the propositions/questions that you are required to contribute in the
Blackboard’s discussion forum.
1. You are given 10 minutes to present a summary of your written report to the
class thru the Collaborate tool.
2. Is Criminology a science? If yes, what is the scientific basis? If no, what is the
justification?

3. Compare and contrast the study of criminology in the Philippines and other
countries. How do they differ? What is the focus or centration of studying
criminology in the Philippines compared to the foreign counterpart?
4. How does criminology contribute to the peace and order stability in the
country?
Second Course Outcome and 2nd Assessment Paper

Schedule
2. Acquire knowledge of the Case Study
contrasting schools of explanations 4th Week
that have emerged in relation to
explaining criminal behavior and
crime causation

Assessment Details
Task
 In this task, you are required to write a literature review on the
different school of thoughts in relation to criminal behavior and crime
causation. You may consider only the major and recent theories as
Literature basis for your literature review.
Review
 The objective of this task is for you to establish the most
credible school of thoughts in relation to criminal behavior by
analyzing the explanation of these schools of thoughts.
Additionally, this Task is designed for you to demonstrate your
ability to synthesize the information in those literatures into a
summary which could lead in identifying gaps in current
knowledge.

expected to present the summary to the class thru on line. The
course administrator will inform you of your online presentation
participate in the BB portal discussion (three times in a week).
Your output will be subjected to Turnitin with acceptable
similarity of 30% only.

attached):

You will be graded according to the following criteria:

1. Depth of analysis 30 pts
2. Coherence of arguments 20 pts
3. Relevance of reading materials reviewed 20 pts
4. Referencing and citation 10 pts
5. Academic prompt integration 10 pts
6. Academic literacy 10 pts
TOTAL 100 pts
 You will be guided by the format below:
I Introduction
A brief introduction of the topic being reviewed
II Body
Presentations of the different literatures on the topic
III Conclusions
Discuss what you have learned from the review of the
various literatures.
IV References
6th Edition APA format
Social Conflict Theory. https://stuydy.com/academy/lesson/social-conflict-

theory-and-crime-definitions-and-approach-to-
Deviance.html#:-:text=ln%20summary%2C%20social%20conflict
%20theory,who%20has%20the%20most%20power
What social patterns exist between social classes and what problems are caused by
the conflict between them? How does social class affect deviance? These are
questions asked by sociologists when considering social conflict theory. Social
conflict theory is all about inequality in society. It proposes that laws and norms
reflect the interests of powerful members of society. In other words, social order is
maintained through competition and conflict, and the ‘winners’ – those with the most
power and the greatest economic and social resources – benefit by taking
advantage of the ‘losers’. We discuss social conflict theory several times throughout
this class, as it is one of the major sociological theories of how society operates as a
whole. In this lesson, though we’ll focus on what this theory suggests about
deviance.
Social process Theory.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=185186

Social process theory views criminality as a function of people’s interactions with

various organization, institution, and processes in society; people in all walks of life
have the potential to become criminals if the maintain destructive social
relationships. Social process theory has three main branches: (1) social learning
theory stresses that people learn how to commit crimes; (2) social control theory
analyzes the failure of society to control criminal tendencies; and (3) labeling theory
maintains that negative label produce criminal careers. The social learning branch of
social process theory suggests the people learn criminal behavior much as they
learn conventional behavior. Differential association theory, formulated by
Sutherland, holds that criminality results from person’s perceiving an excess of
definitions in favor of crime over definitions that uphold conventional values.
Akers has reformulated Sutherland’s work using psychological learning theory, and
he calls his approach differential reinforcement theory. Sykes and Matza’s theory of
neutralization indicates that young people learn behavior rationalizations that enable
them to overcome societal values and norms and break the law. Control theory
maintains that all people have the potential to become criminals but that their bonds
to conventional society prevent them from violating the law. The containment theory
advocated by Reckless suggests that a person’s self-concept aids his or her
commitment to conventional action. Hirschi describes the social bond as containing
elements of belief, commitment, attachment, and involvement, and weakened bonds
allow young people in particular to behave anti-socially. Social reaction or labelling
theory holds that criminality is promoted by becoming negatively labelled by
significant others. Research on labelling theory, however, has not supported its major
premises and critics have charged the theory lacks credibility as a description of
crime causation. Social process theories have greatly influenced social policies and
have controlled both treatment orientations and community action policies.
Social Structure Theories.

https://wps.prenhall.com/chet_schmalleger_criminology_5/85/21939/5616435.cw/-/
5616464/index.html#:~:text=Social%20structure%20theories%20emphasize
%20poverty,theory%2C%20and%20culture%20conflict%20theory.
Social structure, or as the result of economic and class struggle. Social control theories,
with which this chapter has mostly been concerned, are only one of three types of
sociological explanations for crime. Social structure theories emphasize poverty, lack of
education, absence of marketable skills, and subcultural values as fundamental causes
of crime.
Three subtypes of social structure theories can be identified: social disorganization

theory, strain theory, and culture conflict theory. Social disorganization theory
encompasses the notion of social pathology, which sees society as a kind of organism
and crime and deviance as a kind of disease or social pathology. Theories of social
disorganization are often associated with the perspective of social ecology and with the

Chicago School of Criminology, which developed during the 1920s and 1930s. Strain
theory points to a lack of fit between socially approved success goals and the
availability of socially approved means to achieve those goals. As a consequence,
according to the perspective of strain theory, individuals unable to succeed through
legitimate means turn to other avenues that promise economic and social recognition.
Culture conflict theory suggests that the root cause of criminality can be found in a clash
of values between differently socialized groups over what is acceptable or proper
behavior.
Because theories of social structure look to the organization of society for their
explanatory power, intervention strategies based on them typically seek to alleviate the
social conditions that are thought to produce crime. Social programs based on social
structure assumptions frequently seek to enhance socially acceptable opportunities for
success and to increase the availability of meaningful employment
Psychiatry, Psychology, and Crime: Historical and Current Aspects.

https://www.oxfordbibliographics.com/view/document/obo-9780195396607/
obo-9780195396607.xml
Psychiatry and Psychology can explain crime, account for criminal behavior, and treat
the criminal. Historically psychiatry and psychology have been intertwined with the
development of law. Medicine, and its later sub discipline, psychiatry, was particularly
involved in helping to advance the concepts of guilty intentions (mens rea) and
responsibility for the criminal act itself (actus reus), thereby refining the insanity and
diminished responsibility defenses. As knowledge developed and the law became more
sophisticated, distinctions were made between those criminals with a mental illness or
those who were born with a mental impairment (now termed “learning disability”).
Psychology, in particular through its work on personality disorder, introduced the idea
that psychopathic behaviors that were aggressive or seriously anti-social while carried
out rationally nonetheless contributed to diminished responsibility. Dominant among the
preoccupations of psychiatry has been diagnosing and classifying mental illness while
psychology has a wider brief, engaging in aspects of the investigation and prosecution
of crime as well as searching for causes and treating offenders. The questions for
psychiatry have centered on how mental incapacities come about (organically,
genetically, constitutionally, dispositionally) and how to assess or measure their
symptoms to help decide whether an individual acted rationally or irrationally in order to
determine what to do with them (imprison or hospitalize). As medical experts,
psychiatrists have assisted the courts where the insanity defense has been argued. In
terms of treatments, should such a defense prevail, early interventions were
segregation from other prisoners, physical restraint.
Biological theories. https://www.britannica.com/science/criminology/Major-

concepts-and-theories

Biological theories of crime asserted a linkage between certain biological conditions

and an increased tendency to engage in criminal behavior. In the 1890s great
interest, as well as controversy, was generated by the biological theory of the Italian
criminologist Cesare Lombroso, whose investigation of the skulls and facial features
of criminals led him to the hypothesis that serious or persistent criminality was
associated with atavism, or the reversion to a primitive stage of human
development. In the mid-20th century, William Sheldon won considerable support for
his theory that criminal behavior was more common among muscular, athletic
persons (mesomorphs). During the 1960s, significant debate arose over the
possible association between criminal tendencies and chromosomal abnormalities-
in particular, the idea that males with the XYY-trisomy (characterized by the
presence of an extra Y chromosome) may be more prone to criminal behavior than
the general population.
Academic Prompts
After reading the above academic papers, it is now time for you to participate
in the academic discussion in BlackBoard’s Forum feature. Please remember that
your arguments can be integrated in the first academic paper of your masteral
candidates thus you will be cited by your classmates. Further, you are reminded
that you are free and highly encouraged to disagree with or critique your
classmates’ arguments. At the minimum, you are required to draw conclusions,
synthesize or analyze your classmates’ arguments and the academic papers that
you have read.
Below are the propositions/questions that you are required to contribute in the
Blackboard’s discussion forum:
1. Is there a single theory that can best explain crime? If there is, what is it and why?
If none, how do you explain the occurrence of crimes?
2. Allegedly, thousands of suspected persons who are involved in illegal drugs

were killed in the PRRD’s war on drugs. Also, the law against drugs in the
Philippines is considered as one of the harshest in the world. Despite of these,
some people still continue to be involved in illegal drugs. As a criminologist, how
do you explain this?
3. What is the importance of theories in understanding criminal behavior?
Third Course Outcome and 3rd Assessment Paper


Schedule
3. Conduct a literature review on the Written Report
different school of thoughts on crime 5th Week
causation.

Assessment Details
Task
You are required to make a literature review on the different
Written Report school of thoughts on crime causation.
 In this task, you are required to write a literature review on the

different school of thoughts in relation to crime causation. You may
consider only the major and recent theories like green criminology as
basis for your literature review.
 The objective of this task is for you to establish the most credible
school of thoughts in relation to crime causation by analyzing the
explanation of these schools of thoughts. Additionally, this Task is
designed for you to demonstrate your ability to synthesize the
information in those literatures into a summary which could lead in
identifying gaps in current knowledge.

expected to present the summary to the class thru on line. The
course administrator will inform you of your online presentation
participate in the BB portal discussion (three times in a week). Your
output will be subjected to Turnitin with acceptable similarity of 30%
only.

attached):
You will be graded according to the following criteria:
1. Depth of analysis 30 pts.
2. Coherence of arguments 20 pts.
3. Relevance of reading materials reviewed 20 pts.
4. Referencing and citation 10 pts.
5. Academic prompt integration 10 pts.
6. Academic literacy 10 pts.
TOTAL 100 pts.
 You will be guided by the format below:
I Introduction

A brief introduction of the forensic science assigned to you.
II Body
Presentations of the how the science is applied in the field of
criminal investigation issues and concerns as well as its evidentiary
value in the administration of justice.
III Conclusions
Discuss the new learnings you have acquired from the topics
presented and discussed on each forensic science.
IV References
6th Edition APA format
South, N. (2014). Green Criminology: Reflections, Connections, Horizons

www.crimejusticejournal.comIJCJ&SD 2014 Vol3 No 2:5-20
This paper traces aspects of the development of a ‘green’ criminology. It starts with
personal reflections and then describes the emergence of explicit statements of a
green criminological perspective. Initially these statements were independently
voiced, in different parts of the world but they reflected shared concerns. These
works have found unification as a ‘green’, ‘eco‐global’ or ‘conservation’ criminology.
The paper reviews the classifications available when talking about not only legally‐
defined crimes but also legally perpetrated harms, as well as typologies of such
harms and crimes. It then looks at the integration of ‘green’ and ‘traditional’
criminological thinking before briefly exploring four dimensions of concern for today
and the future.
Brisman, A. (2014). Of Theory and Meaning I Green Criminology

www.crimejusticejournal.comIJCJ&SD 2014 Vol 3 No 2:21-34
This article focus on green criminology’s relationship with theory with the aim of
describing some of its animating features and offering some suggestions for green
criminology’s further emergence. In so doing, the author examines green criminology’s
intra‐disciplinary theoretical engagement and the notion of applying different meanings
and interpretations to established theory. Following this, the author explore green
criminology’s interface with theories and ideas outside criminology – what is referred to
as green criminology’s extra‐disciplinary theoretical engagement. It also conclude by
suggesting that green criminology has shed light on the etiology of environmental crime
and harm (including climate change), and that it will continue to illuminate not only how
and why environmental crime and harm occurs, but also the meaning of such crime and
harm.
White, R. & South, N. (2013). The Future of Green Criminology: Horizon Scanning and
Climate Change

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263194809_THE_FUTURE_OF_GREEN_CRI
MINOLOGY_HORIZON_SCANNING_AND_CLIMATE_CHANGE_Rob_White_and_Nigel
_South/link/0a85e53a1e596a3c14000000/download
GREEN CRIMINOLOGY: PRESENT AND FUTURE
The kinds of harms and crimes studied within green criminology include illegal trade
in endangered species such as exotic birds or the killing of elephants and rhinos for
their ivory tusks, illegal harvesting of ‘natural resources’ such as illicit fishing and
logging, and prohibited or irresponsible disposal of toxic substances and the resultant
pollution of air, land and water. Wider definitions of environmental harm and crime
extend the scope of analysis to consider activities such as the legal clear felling of old
growth forests and the negative ecological consequences of new technologies such
as use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture (e.g., reduction of biodiversity
through extensive planting of GMO corn). More recent considerations include the
criminological aspects of climate change, from the point of view of human
contributions to global warming (e.g., carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants)
and the criminality associated with the aftermath of natural disasters (e.g., incidents
of theft and rape in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans). Green
criminology thus provides analysis and interpretation of a wide spectrum of social
and ecological issues (see White & Heckenberg, 2014; South & Brisman, 2013).
Academic Prompts
After reading the academic papers, you should be able to trace the
development of a green criminology. Describe how green criminology is connected
with traditional criminological theory, and also know the future challenges for green
criminology.
Below are the propositions/questions that you are required to discuss in your
written report as part of your research work to be submitted thru Blackboard’s
assignment tool:
1. What is green criminology and how does it interface with theories and
ideas outside criminology?
2. What is the main focus of green criminology? Describe its evolution.
3. What is Ecocide and Eco-Justice?
4. What are the different approaches within green criminology in relation to
the nature of environmental issues, including harm and response to harm?
5. What is state-corporate crime in relation to climate change?
6. What are the harms and crimes within green criminology?
7. With the pressing nature of many environmental issues, in what areas of
green criminology criminologist must be concerned of.

Your output will be subjected to Turnitin with acceptable similarity of 30% only.
You will be graded according to the following criteria (see rubric attached):
1. Depth of analysis 30 pts.
2. Coherence of arguments 20 pts.
3. Relevance of reading materials reviewed 20 pts.
4. Referencing and citation 10 pts.
5. Academic prompt integration 10 pts.
6. Academic literacy 10 pts.
TOTAL 100 pts.
It is now also the time for you to participate in the academic discussion in
BlackBoard’s Forum feature and or in Google meet. Please remember that your
arguments shall be integrated in the first academic paper of your fellow masteral
candidates thus you will be cited by your classmates. Further, you are reminded that
you are free and highly encouraged to disagree with or critique your classmates’
arguments. At the minimum, you are required to draw conclusions, synthesize or
analyze your classmates’ arguments and the academic papers that you have read.
COURSE SCHEDULES
This section calendars all the activities and exercises, including readings and
lectures, as well as time for making assignments and doing other requirements, in a
programmed schedule by weeks, to help the students in SDL pacing, regardless of
mode of delivery (OBD or DED).
Duration of Classes: August 13, 2022 – September 17, 2022

Activity Date Where to submit
First Assessment Paper August 20, 2022 BlackBoard/Google Meet
Academic Prompts August 20, 2022 BlackBoard/ Open Forum/
0800H-1200H Google Meet/Zoom
Second Assessment Paper August 27, 2022 Blackboard Learn
Academic Prompts August 27, 2022 BlackBoard/ Open Forum/
Third Assessment Paper September 3, 2022 Blackboard Learn
Academic Prompts September 3, 2022 BlackBoard/ Open Forum/
Final Exam September 17,2022 BlackBoard

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structures. In relation to criminology, it may be divided into social-structural and

Social Structural Criminology Social-structural approaches to criminology examine

Another social-structural approach is the conflict school of criminology. It traces its

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Social-Process Criminology theories attempt to explain how people become

Edwin H Sutherland (1883-1950), a U.S. sociologist and criminologist who first

Walter C Reckless developed one version of control theory, called containment. He

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Timmermans, S. and Gabe, J. (2002). Connecting criminology and sociology of

Criminal Psychologist vs. Criminologist. Charon.

As an immediate difference between forensic psychology and criminology,

Adshead, G. (2016). The Criminal Mind: The relationship between criminology

Modern criminologists assume that there is a complex relationship between the