Video and Multimedia

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Audio Resources

Audio Link 6.1: It’s Not Greed That Drives White-Collar Crime, Author Says

Description: Eugene Soltes speaks on the book he wrote based on interviews with top executives who had been convicted of criminal activity.

Learning Objective: 6.5: Give examples of crimes committed at the national and global level today.

Audio Link 6.2: When an Environmental Accident Becomes a Crime

Description: NPR takes a look at environmental crimes such as the BP Oil Spill.

Learning Objective: 6.5: Give examples of crimes committed at the national and global level today.

Audio Link 6.3: Confessions of a Convict

Description: Two crime scenes, two murders. One crime is solved, the other case went cold. Both raise the question: What should a person suspected of murder say?

Learning Objective: 6.1: Describe who is deviant and why.

Video Resources

Video Link 6.1: Juvenile Life Sentences

Description: The United States is one of the very few countries in the world that allows children under 18 to be prosecuted as adults and sentenced to life without parole. Producer Ofra Bikel visits five young men in Colorado sentenced to life without parole to examine their crimes and punishment, the laws that sanctioned their convictions, and the prospect of never being free again.

Learning Objective: 6.1: Describe who is deviant and why.

Video Link 6.2: What I Learned Serving Time for a Crime I Didn’t Commit

Description: Teresa Njoroge discusses her experience in the prison system and what she is doing to help others in the same position.

Learning Objective: 6.1: Describe who is deviant and why.

Web Resources

Web Link 6.1: Types of Crimes: Murders

Description: In this article from Contexts Magazine Michael Light and Jeffrey Ulmer analyze homicide deaths between 1989 and 2010 to examine the determinants of criminal violence trends among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics.

Learning Objective: 6.5: Give examples of crimes committed at the national and global level today.

Web Link 6.2: Sex Crimes

Description: This article, from Pacific Standard Magazine, takes a look at the recidivism rate among those who commit sex crimes and what reasons account for this rate.

Learning Objective: 6.3: Provide possible explanations for why the crime rate has fallen in recent years.

Web Link 6.3: Marijuana Legalization Is a Response to the Failures of the War on Drugs

Description: The recent wave of marijuana legalization in the several states in the U.S. suggests that use of the plant is considered less deviant than at anytime since the start of the War on Drugs.

Learning Objective: 6.3: Provide possible explanations for why the crime rate has fallen in recent years.