Victimology

  Research and discuss one current event through an intersectional lens.   Why do you think it’s important to analyze social problems through an intersectional lens?  Remember to review the Discussion Board Grading Rubric to ensure your work meets the minimum posting requirements. 

The Case Stella is a 42-year-old married mother of two. She works as an occupational therapist at a private nursing home. She is a respected member of the local community and is a member of the parent teacher association (PTA) at her kids’ high school. Stella’s husband Peter formerly worked as an investment banker but…

 In this journal entry, reflect on at least two things you learned or discovered through the Chapter’s readings. Reflect on how a particular topic in the chapter was interesting, challenging, boring, surprising to you and how you may apply a particular concept or theory you learned in the reading in your current or future profession….

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 9: Qualitative Methods, watch the Week 3 Assignment video, and read the following resources on Dr. Loïc Wacquant’s research: “Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prizefighter” (Links to an external site.) “A Fleshpeddler at Work: Power, Pain, and Profit in the Prizefighting Economy” (Links to…

  You and Officer Landonio are on patrol. You see two juveniles sitting on the curb, and they are smoking what appears to be a marijuana cigarette. They are not trying to hide the fact that they are smoking marijuana, and you pull your patrol car over to talk to them. You run their names…

  Susie leaves school and, while driving home, hits and kills her criminal law professor.   Outline a changing set of facts and circumstances which would make this an offense of capital murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and negligent homicide.