Tenth Blog Response

• Using Summon search engine and limiting yourself to peer-reviewed journal articles, build a 3-4 source bibliography, with commentary on the sources for each of two possible research presentation projects. Blog about your two possible projects and your sources you found for each.

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.

     <Estrada-Martínez, Lorena M., Caldwell, Cleopatra, H., Schulz, Amy J., Diez-Roux, and Ana V., Pedraza, Silvia. "Families, Neighborhood Socio-Demographic Factors, and Violent Behaviors among Latino, White, and Black Adolescents." Youth Society June 2013: 45.2. SAGE Journals with Full Text. Web. 7 Oct. 2013.>

     <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 research topic that could connect both Biology and Criminal Justice would be links that are found to affect humans negatively, and connections that may be had to crime. There is some interesting speculation made between the effect that crime could have on us biologically, or the tendency for certain areas to have high rates of things such as asthma as well as a high rate of crime and how the two may coincide.

     <Golembeski, C, and R Fullilove. "Public Health Consequences Of Imprisonment. Criminal (In)Justice In The City And Its Associated Health Consequences." American Journal Of Public Health 95.10 (2005): 1701-1706. CINAHL with Full Text. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.>

     <Emily, A. Wang, et al. "Neighborhood Incarceration Rate And Asthma Prevalence In New York City: A Multilevel Approach." American Journal Of Public Health 103.5 (2013): e38-44. CINAHL with Full Text. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.>