- Write up your pair of sources for each of your two possible presentation topics, explaining the value of each source and how it might help you integrate your emphases for your term research presentation.
- One of the possible presentation topics that I have been thinking about would be one relating to violence and it's effect on youth, and different ways to measure that. My two interdisciplinary majors are Criminal Justice and Biology, and there are so many connections in both that lead us to believe that a child's earliest years through adolescence tend to be the most influencing on the path that their life will take. For this subject, I found two articles with the full text available online that discuss different factors and explanations for youth that are exposed to violent behaviors at a young age, and how they choose to cope with violence. Data is gathered and trends are measured throughout neighbors that attempt to explain the factors that go into a youth's violent behavior, where their influences may be coming from, and how it affects us as a society both socially and criminally.
<Zimmerman, Gregory, M., and Steven, F. Messner. "Individual, Family Background, And Contextual Explanations Of Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Youths' Exposure To Violence." American Journal Of Public Health 103.3 (2013): 435-442. CINAHL with Full Text. Web. 7 Oct. 2013.>
- Another possible presentation topic is the effect that our biology may have on our tendency to commit or resist crime. This article attempts to integrate biology and criminal justice/criminology along with other sociological and psychological factors to delve into possible genetic factors that may influence us to commit crime. Among the things they study are autonomic arousal, neurobiology and neuroendocrine functioning in an attempt to find evidence supporting the theory that our biology does in fact relate to our behavior.
<Wilson, Laura C., and Scarpa, Angela. "Criminal Behavior: The Need for an Integrative Approach That Incorporates Biological Influences." Journal of Contemporary Criminal-Justice Aug. 2012: 28.3. SAGE Journals with Full Text. Web. 7 Oct. 2013.>
Those sound like great topics. I think that Violence and it's effect on youth would be a terrific topic because that is definitely a reality into days world. People need to understand out the violent acts of one person can impact another person, especially a children or teenagers. This is something that some people seem to not think about or comprehend very well.
ReplyDeleteI also think that the topic of how our biology effects our tendency to commit or resist crime is also something would be great to research and learn more about. It is interesting and important to understand how our biology can effect a persons actions and abilities.