Introduction to Criminology: Why Do They Do It?
Video and Multimedia
Video Resources
Video 1: Routine Activities Theory
Description: This video provides an overview of the routine activities theory.
Video 2: Hot Spot Policing and Displacement
Description: David Weisburd, recipient of the 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, explains research showing that intensified police patrols in high-crime hot spots can substantially decrease crime without causing it to rise in other areas.
Video 3: Focus on Places, Not People, to Prevent Crime
Description: This talk connects geography and urban design to incidences of crime and to crime prevention.
Audio Resources
Audio 1: How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing?
Description: This article discusses how police have always relied on data, but a problem with the data is that it has been traditionally been slow and hard to use until the rollout of a data search program sold by a company called Palantir.
Audio 2: Author Podcast: Relating to Theories
Description: The author provides a series of scenarios that illustrate the differences in risk that one would take in each of the scenarios mentioned.
Web Resource
Web 1: Mapping the Golden State Killer
Description: The LA Times maps out the crimes of the Golden State Killer.