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  1. Feb 2024

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  2. Mar 2023
    1. Overall, approximately 70 percent of survey respondents consider their area of responsibility tobe safe from incidents of workplace violence. However, only 6 percent believe that their area ofresponsibility is very safe. Approximately 50 percent believe their area of responsibility isrelatively safe

      Would love to see this broken down by role.

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  3. Jan 2022
    1. erasure

      From Trouillot's (1995) Silencing the Past

      The literature on slavery in the Americas and on the Holocaust suggests that there may be structural similarities in global silences or, at the very least, that erasure and banalization are not unique to the Haitian Revolution. At the level of generalities, some narratives cancel what happened through direct erasure of facts or their relevance. (p. 96, emphasis mine).

      The arguments and evidence presented here support Trouillot's claim.

  4. Nov 2021
    1. far-right extremism refers to groups and/or individuals that support violence and/or criminal activity explicitly, or implicitly, to further aspects of one or more of the ideals found in this list: fiercely nationalistic, anti-global, xenophobic, and anti-immigration (as opposed to universal and international in orientation); suspicious of centralized federal and state authority; reverent of individual liberty (especially their right to own guns, be free of taxes); believe in conspiracy theories that involve a grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty; belief that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (sometimes such beliefs are amorphous and vague, but for some the threat is from a specific ethnic, racial, social, or religious group); belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in or supporting the need for paramilitary preparations and training and/or survivalism; support of and/or inclusion in misogynistic subcultures; and opposition of women’s reproductive health choices specifically related to abortion

      Far-Right Extremism Definition taken from Extremist Crime Database

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  5. Jul 2021
    1. As the crime rate in Camden dropped, it might be that officers engaged in less force because they were working in an environment that became safer over time. Month fixed effects accounts for this possibility, as well as other external factors.

      Control

  6. Sep 2020
    1. Another problem posed by Internet service providers like AOL is that its servers “cache” (save a copy of) frequently requested pages, which means their readers don’t show up in the logs at all

      I wonder, even though hardly anyone is still using AOL, whether this is still a major problem? Do contemporary ISP's do this as well?

    1. Windows PC with Internet Explorer

      This is why older websites had those annoying badges reading "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer/Netscape Navigator/Mozilla Firefox/etc."

    1. Internet search engines,” writes Gertrude Himmelfarb, “will produce a comic strip or advertising slogan as readily as a quotation from the Bible or Shakespeare.”

      I wonder if search engines' ranking procedures have mitigated this problem or made it worse.

    1. These percentages add up to more than one hundred percent because the categorizations are fluid and many people fall into several categories at onc

      Categories aren't mutually exclusive.

    1. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument.

      Late stage capitalism?

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    1. gave advice on the card as to how to avoid causing future damage to cultural heritage.

      Assuming damage/erasure was neither intentional nor deliberate.

    2. Salient to the role of public history to political agendas are the recent demonstrations over monuments of historical figures associated with supporting racist movements, for example, Robert E Lee’s statue in Charlottesville (the United States)

      This is where my particular strain of criminology can come into play as well.

    3. During the 1990s, historic sites were used as tools to build capacity, to support social diversity, to encourage tourism and as educational tools.

      Princeton Renaissance Project is a contemporary example?

    4. This programme relied heavily on first-hand account of history, intermixed with archival research. As a result, this show was a mix between historical fact and fiction

      Implied dismissal of first-hand accounts as "fiction". Institutional privileging of information? Justified?

    5. it has been judged as producing mindless consumers of a false past for the sole purpose of entertainment and economic gain.5

      by whom? Hughes-Warrington?

    6. official and unofficial history as public history has become about accessibility and usage rather than storage and protection

      Key argument of chapter.

    7. This has recently changed to include social history and unofficial historical documents

      Claus, P. and Marriot, J. (2012), History: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice. London: Pearson

    8. This both deliberately and subconsciously hides the multiple publics that exist within the city’s districts, many of whom feel disenfranchised from the city’s history and regard history as irrelevant to their pasts such as the African American population.

      Public history as erasure. RE: Trouillot.

    9. Public history’s lack of a specific or precise definition has enabled it to develop organically and to use a variety of methods.

      This could be read as a counter-critique of ambiguity.

    10. This is increasingly done without historians’ formal input, for example, genealogy and the creation of family trees and digital media projects created by local history societies

      History outside of academic control. History beyond academics.

    11. Public historians are individuals, usually trained historians, who work in either a professional or academic capacity and who engage in the practice of communicating the past to the public.

      Definition of public history.

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    1. Maps, buildings, and policy declared the city center Spanish, but the very stones that constructed it proclaimed the indigenous past.

      Illustration as counter-evidence.

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    1. However accurately we may determine the “facts” of history, the facts themselves and our interpretations of them, and our interpretation of our own interpretations, will be seen in a different perspective or a less vivid light as mankind moves into the unknown future.

      Application towards historiographic (sp) paradigm

    2. Left to themselves, the facts do not speak; left to themselves they do not exist, not really, since for all practical purposes there is no fact until some one affirms it.

      The folly of rejecting theory, or in this case, paradigm. Without a theoretical lens, data is just a list of words, phrases, or numbers, without meaning.

    3. interpretation” to the rigorous examination of the factual event, just as it occurred

      The basic premise of positivism, applied to historic analysis.

    1. Native Paradigm:

      • Constant Motion/Flux
      • Everything consists of energy waves
      • Certain places act as amplifiers of energy waves
      • Things are forever changing.
      • Renewal

        In the native world, the energy waves are really the spirit, and it is the energy waves that know...It is not you that knows. You know things because you are made up of energy waves or a combination thereof.

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    1. "How does interpreting knowledge as spirit affect research? It doesn't. You do....An epistemology of spirit encourages us all to be of service, to not get drawn into the ego nurtured in academic, and to keep diving into the wellspring of our own awe."

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  8. Feb 2020
    1. a process whereby victims, offenders, and communities are collectively involved in resolving how to deal with the aftermath of an offence and its implications for the future’

      Mediation UK. (2002), ‘Restorative justice: A brief introduction’, www.mediationuk.org.uk 6/3/2003.

    2. a problem-solving approach to crime which involves the parties themselves and the community generally, in an active relationship with statutory agencies’.

      Marshall, T. F. (1999). Restorative justice: An overview. London: Home Office.

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  9. Jan 2020
    1. In the subsequent vacuum of physical power, wealthy neighborhoods would deploy private police forces and poor neighborhoods would organize around criminal gang

      Where would this private police force come from? Why would poorer neighborhoods organize around criminal gangs?

    2. deepening structural inequalities and harming the very people that the police abolitionists say they want to help

      Let's say this is a valid criticism for a minute. You're not considering any of the alternatives you've listed above in the absence of police.

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  11. Jul 2019
    1. he study of places as a means to explain the variation of crime within com-munities has developed from an interest in improving crime control policies

      Consider the work of Eck.

  12. Jun 2019
    1. Instead there is a perfect gradation from extremely attractive to extremely unattractive, with an unfavorable balance of the old and ugly.

      ...and that's the least egregious of your culturally-based claims masquerading as empiricism.

    2. This last form of control refers almost exclusively to incest taboos, which reinforce the first-named (posi- tive) control by banishing the disruptive forces of sexual competition from the family group.

      What about non-heteronormative sexuality?

    3. The institutional control of sex follows three correlative line

      Institutional Control of Sex

      1. Permits, encourages, or forces various degrees of sexual intimacy within specific relations.
      2. Discourages sexual intimacy in all other situations.
      3. Absolutely prohibits sexual relations in certain specified situations.
    4. The sexual in- stitutions are distinguished by the fact that though they all provide grati- fication, they do not all tie it to the same social functions.'

      Basic Difference: Sexual institutions (marriage, prostitution, etc.) differ mainly in their ties to social functions.

    5. The basic ele- ment in what we actually call prostitution-the employment of sex for non-sexual ends within a competitive-authoritative system-characterizes not simply prostitution itself but all of our institutions in which sex is in- volved, notably courtship and wedlock.

      Institutional similarities between prostitution and all others where sex is involved, namely courtship/dating and marriage.

    1. revealed positive and statistically significant relationships between the household activity ratio and each official crime rate change

      As household activity increases, so do crime rates.

    2. he household activity ratio should vary di- rectly with official index crime rates. Our empirical goal in this section is to test this relationship, with controls for those variables which other researchers have linked empirically to crime rate trends in the United States.

      Empirical Testing.

    3. We define these as any recurrent and prevalent activities which provide for basic population and indi- vidual needs, whatever their biological or cultural origins

      Routine Activities: Any everyday activity which meets needs, be they biological or cultural. (food, sex, social needs, etc.)

    4. (1) motivated offenders, (2) suita- ble targets, and (3) the absence of capable guardians against a violation

      Eck (1994) adds places and managers to this framework, creating the "Crime Triangle".

    5. We believe the structure of such activities influences criminal oppor- tunity and therefore affects trends in a class of crimes we refer to as direct- contact predatory violations.

      Context of theoretical application.

    1. Given this fact, researchers could focus on the following core hypotheses derived from the theory
      1. Adverse relations with others hold a positive relationship with delinquency.

      2. Adverse relations hold a cumulative impact on delinquency after reaching a certain threshold.

      3. Several variables condition adverse relation/strain's impact on delinquency.

    2. it is important to note that the general strain theory is not presented here as a fully developed alternative to earlier theories

      important caveat.

    3. FACTORS AFFECTING THE DISPOSITION TO DELINQUEN
      1. My temperament
      2. Prior learning history, particularly how much my delinquency was reinforced.
      3. My beliefs, particularly what an appropriate response is to certain provocations.
      4. What I view as causing my adversity.
      5. Affects all the others: Association with delinquent peers.
    4. CONSTRAINTS TO NONDELINQUENT AND DELINQUENT COPING
      1. Initial Goals/Values/Identity: If the strain affects something I deeply value, if I don't have many other things to take solace in, it's going to be more difficult for me to think of the strain as unimportant. Makes me more likely to turn to delinquency to cope.

      2. Individual Coping Resources: If I lack traits such as temperament, self-esteem or problem-solving skills, I'm less resilient to strain or to feel that I can cope by behavior modification.

      3. Conventional Social Support: If I've got no one to ask for advice, aid, or to listen to me, I'm more likely to turn to delinquency to relieve my strain.

      4. Constraints to Delinquent Coping: Costs/Benefits to engaging in a specific act of delinquency, how socially controlled I am, whether I possess the means to commit an act of delinquency.

      4a. Macro-Level Variables: My social environment might affect coping by influencing how much I value certain goals/identities or how stressed certain goals are around me.

      My social environment might affect whether I view my strains as "real" adversity.

      My social environment might make it harder to downplay how severe my strain is. It's not easy to ignore money when I'm the only kid at the table without lunch.

      My social environment might make it hard to cope without turning to delinquency. If I'm a kid who's constantly harassed by my school administration without any legit way to fight back, no ability to transfer schools, and no way to ignore it without negative consequences, I'm a lot more likely to fight back in a "delinquent" manner.

    5. If strain theory is to have any value, it must be able to explain the selection of delinquent versus nondelinquent adaptations

      Main issue: Predictive Power of Strain Theory

    6. EMOTIONAL COPING STRATEGI

      Exercise, yoga, meditation, drug use, playacting, screaming, drinking, etc. Anything to alleviate the stress rather than reinterpret or change the situation. For youth, drug use common as other strategies lay out of reach.

    7. BEHAVIORAL COPING STRATEGIE
      1. Maximize positive/minimize negative outcomes: "I'm gonna focus on x", "I think I'll skip school today, I don't need that stress."

      2. Vengeful behavior: "They did this to me! Time to get even!"

    8. COGNITIVE COPING STRATEGI
      1. Minimize the importance of the adversity: "Money's not important to me" or "Money's not as important as family".

      2. Maximize positive/Minimize negative outcomes: "At least it's not as bad as before", "It could be worse", "At least I don't have it as bad as [x]".

      3. Accept responsibility for adversity: "I brought this on myself anyway." "I'm just not that good".

    9. So, for example, the insults of a teacher may be experienced as adverse because they (1) interfere with the adolescent’s aspirations for academic success, (2) result in the violation of a distributive justice rule such as equity, and (3) are conditioned negative stimuli and so are experienced as noxious in and of themselves.

      Excellent illustration of individual-level strain. However, I'd like to see deeper discussion of systemic inhibitors/facilitators for strain. i.e. what encourages or discourages the teacher to make the insults with impunity in the first place?

    10. against those responsible for the loss, or manage the negative affect caused by the loss by taking illicit drugs. While there are no data bearing directly on this type of strain, experimen

      Compatible with theories of crime as a form of self-help.

      Black, Donald. 1993. "Crime as Social Control" Pp. 27-46 in The Social Structure of Right and Wrong, edited by D. Black. San Diego, CA: Academic Press Inc.

    11. Strain theory in criminology has focused on the first type of strain, arguing that it is most responsible for the delinquency in our societ

      See previous note.

    12. This alternative conception of strain has been largely neglected in criminol- og

      Why neglected? Political considerations? Novelty? Difficulties operationalizing concepts?

    13. Among other things, it has been charged that these theories (1) are unable to explain the extensive nature of middle-class delinquency, (2) neglect goals other than monetary success/middle-class sta- tus, (3) neglect barriers to goal achievement other than social class, and (4) do not fully specify why only some strained individuals turn to delinquency.

      In other words, if traditional strain theory is accurate....

      1. Why do so many middle-class kids commit acts of delinquency?

      2. What about delinquents that commit crimes for non-financial reasons?

      3. What about barriers such as race? (e.g. the "your money's no good here!" argument)

      4. What about the ones who don't commit delinquency?

    14. The classic strain theories of Merton, A. Cohen, and Cloward and Ohlin argue that the cultural system encourages everyone to pursue the ideal goals of monetary success and/or middle-class status.

      Cultural assumption in the system: Everyone wants $$$ and/or to be middle-class.

    15. strain theory argues that adolescents are pressured into delinquency by the negative afective states-most notably anger and related emotions- that often result from negative relationships

      Main thesis of traditional strain theory.

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  13. Mar 2019
    1. We analyzed data describing the behavior of 3,492 participants in a development program designed to help managers become better coaches. As part of this program, their coaching skills were assessed by others in 360-degree assessments

      I would appreciate a more detailed breakdown of this program, so as to account for potential skewness or biases present such as integration of a company culture or class values to the exclusion of others.

  14. Feb 2019
    1. because the system isn’t designed to allow kids this kind of feedback

      In turn, reinforcing the prescriptive and destructive status quo which administrators justify with diagnostic-based arguments.