Web Activities
Click on the following links before completing web activities. Please note these will open in a new window.
- The Interdisciplinary Nature of Criminology
- A link to a paper presented by D. Wayne Osgood regarding a “best approach” at building theory.
- Additional exercises:
- Review the public opinion polls on crime.
- Review the link from the National White Collar Crime Center.
- Karl Marx
- A link to information about Karl Marx.
- Additional exercises:
- Review Marx’s work on the class struggle between the proletariat and bourgeoisie to fully understand the power struggle between the two groups.
- Review Marx’s work on Wage Labor and Capital to fully understand their belief on how capitalism validates the stratified society Jewkes speaks of.
- Postmodern Criminology
- A link to Postmodern Criminology, an electronic journal containing peer-reviewed articles.
- Additional exercises:
- Review Dueling Paradigms by Milovanovic. The article provides insight on both the modernist and postmodernist perspectives.
- Review the Cultural Criminology website.