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    Classical Myth

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    CLA204 Lecture 1 Notes What is myth? - mûthos (ancient Greek) – “story”‚ “plot” of a narrative - myth – “a traditional story of collective (social) importance” – character‚ plot‚ temporal and special setting - mûthos (story) + logos (account) = “study of myth”‚ mythology - set in distant past or time so long ago when humans did not exist - mythical place – ie. garden paradise‚ world of the dead‚ etc. Circulation of Myth: oral (Orpheus‚ Homer‚ Hesiod) literary (Ovid‚ Euripides) artistic

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    The behavior I have is a fear of flying. This behavior developed when I was younger on an international flight back to the U.S.‚ there was a bad storm and the turbulence was really bad and the plane felt like it was dropping out of the sky. Also there was another instance where I was flying through the mountains in a propeller plane. These particular planes do not fly as high as say a Boeing 757 or a jet‚ therefore you feel every single wind gust and bump. As the plane was descending into our destination

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    the Classical Hollywood cinema. Both styles are simply ways to further alter films in a more creative manner. The Soviet Montage movement was one of the biggest contributions of the film industry in the Soviet Union to worldwide cinema‚ which relied heavily on editing. The Soviet Montage uses a series of images which connect together‚ making up the entirety of the film. In the American film industry‚ the Golden Age of cinema began in the late 1920s with the Classical Hollywood style. Classical Hollywood

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    On The Job training / Internship As mandated by CHED (CMO no.37 series of 2010) BS in Criminology students are required to take Practicum for 1 semester on the fourth year of the program. The Practicum shall be divided in two components‚ 270 hrs of on-the-job training and another 270 hrs. of Community Immersion‚ to complete the 540 hrs of internship.  The Practicum is designed to provide practical experiences for BS Crim. students working in the 5 pillars of the Criminal Justice System: Law

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    Critical criminology is a study of crime using a conflict perspective which considers the causes and contexts for crime‚ deviance and disorder; it has also been known as radical criminology and the new criminology. This perspective combines a wide range of concerns from across the more radical approaches‚ such as Marxism and feminism. It incorporates a wide number of ideas and political strands‚ generally associated with an oppositional position in relation to conventional criminology. Raising epistemological

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    Chapter 4 The Rule of Law Overview The chapter begins by distinguishing between two types of law. Criminal law is a formal means of social control that uses rules‚ interpreted and enforced by the courts‚ to set limits on the conduct of the citizens‚ to guide the officials‚ and to define unacceptable behavior. Civil law is a means of resolving conflicts between individuals. It includes personal injury claims (torts)‚ the law of contracts and property‚ and subjects such as administrative law and

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    Left Realist Criminology are from Critical Criminology as a reaction against perceived to be the Left’s failure in everyday crime. The central tenet of lest reaslim is to reflect the reality of crime‚ that is in its origins‚ its nature and its impact Left Realism argues that crime affects working class people‚ but that solutions that only increase repression to make the crime problem worse. However they argue that the causes of crime in relative deprivation‚ although preventative measures and policing

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    Criminology is the study of crime‚ its perpetrators‚ and its causes; and‚ relatedly‚ an interest in its prevention‚ and in the deterrence‚ treatment‚ and punishment of offenders‚ (The Oxford Handbook of Criminology‚ 2012). Feminist criminology specifically suggests addressing crimes committed by women. According to Burgess-Proctor (2006) Feminist criminology or the development of female crimes as a mature theoretical orientation gradually became an accepted theory during the 1970s as a pioneering

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    Matthew Hite April 5‚ 2016 CJ-305-02 Rational Choice Theory In criminology‚ there is a functional belief that man is a reasoning actor who weighs means and ends‚ and makes a rational choice. This method was designed by Cornish and Clarke to assist in the thinking of situational crime prevention.1 It is assumed‚ that crime is bad behavior designed to meet the offender’s everyday needs for such things as money‚ sex and excitement‚ and that by meeting the needs it involves the making of decisions and

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    Criminology can be defined as the multidisciplinary study of crime (Bartol‚ 1999‚ p. 3). As the definition suggests‚ many disciplines are involved in the collection of knowledge about crime‚ including psychology‚ sociology‚ psychiatry‚ anthropology‚ biology‚ neurology‚ political science and economics (Bartol‚ 1999 p. 4). Over the years criminology has been dominated by three disciplines - sociology‚ psychology and biology. Criminology needs all the help it can get in its struggle to understand‚ explain

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