I host a website about ethics review
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I host a website about ethics review
Archived copy of the original website: https://web.archive.org/web/20181123150301/http://balancedethicsreview.com/
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.
Employees at every level of retail were well-represented
Store level non-management only made up 6.5% (roughly 26?) part of the survey!
400
N = 400
Research
Citations?
https://github.com/hadley/mastering-shiny/raw/master/neiss/
Updated link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hadley/mastering-shiny/main/neiss/
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2083827
All annotations are on the complete PDF of the JSTOR article.
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.
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
a synthetic control analysis
Analysis 2
Poisson regression analysis
Analysis 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
, account for unobserved heterogeneity that is constant over time, but which varies by officer
Control
training status
Nominal Dummy Variable
ategorized accordingly, from least serious to most
Ordinal Level Variable
“[c]itizens’ perceptions of police stops may be considered just as important as the objective reality of such stops.”
Similar to the Thomas Theorem: "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences." See: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.155699
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?
ungainly URLs
DOI's and JSTOR's own "stable URL" system largely address this issue. Granted the issue of incomprehensibility remains.
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/magna.html
Leads to https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta now.
Linus
Linux
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."
H-Net
https://networks.h-net.org/networks
Still there, but it's on a Drupal platform instead of listserv distribution now.
Gallica
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://gallica.bnf.fr/&prev=search&pto=aue
archival websites are not archives at all
Distinction between archive and curated content.
five main genres
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.
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.
primitive accumulation
force, violence, slavery, etc.?
ich takes away from the labourer the possession of his means of production
alienation
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?
Private property,
Distinct from personal property
cost-effective compared with traditional face-to-face gatherings
Not to mention physically safer (annotated during the COVID-19 pandemic).
gave advice on the card as to how to avoid causing future damage to cultural heritage.
Assuming damage/erasure was neither intentional nor deliberate.
quangos
Quasi Non Governmental Organizations
ICOMOS: The International Council on Monuments and Sites
Abbrev. appears throughout book
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.
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?
Discuss whether it is important to produce historically accurate television programme.
Consider meta-commentaries on this as well. See "Badda Bing, Badda Bang" from ST: DS9 (https://ca.startrek.com/news/how-ben-sisko-wrestled-with-american-history) (highlighted relevant passage there as well.)
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?
unrecorded
read: erased
Blackadder
You horrid little man.
Animal, Mineral and Vegetable
But did it involve a modern Major General?
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?
official and unofficial history as public history has become about accessibility and usage rather than storage and protection
Key argument of chapter.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
subjection
Interesting use of past preservation vs. erasure as a tool of social control.
Maps, buildings, and policy declared the city center Spanish, but the very stones that constructed it proclaimed the indigenous past.
Illustration as counter-evidence.
Any attack on encomienda was perceived, rightly, as an attack on the power of the conqueror class
Colonialist economics in a nutshell.
vassalage relations rather than imperial subjection
I'm curious what the practical distinction here would be.
on the other hand
Dual/compounding interpretations. Not necessarily contradictory.
traza
The traza or layout was the pattern on which Spanish American cities were built beginning in the colonial era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Colonial_architecture#La_Traza
palimpsest
1: writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased 2 : something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palimpsest
syncretic
SYNCRETISM: 1 : the combination of different forms of belief or practice 2 : the fusion of two or more originally different inflectional forms https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syncretism
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
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.
Even the most disinterested historian has at least one preconception, which is the fixed idea that he has none
The Positivist Paradox
interpretation” to the rigorous examination of the factual event, just as it occurred
The basic premise of positivism, applied to historic analysis.
Native Paradigm:
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.
Compare with Zerubavel's notion of boundaries and Bourdieu's Distinction (p. 219) Epistemology shaped by space, Knowing with land.
"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."
Epistemology: Philosophy of Knowledge. Distinguishes between knowledge, intelligence, understanding, etc. ( see footnote 2)
"We must develop new theories from ancient agency." - Main argument.
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.
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.
socialist
https://ballotpedia.org/Shaun_Scott
Funny how you place the word "socialist" here, despite Scott running for a nonpartisan office (like Harris-Talley) on his own platform.
One might dismiss such proclamations as part of a fringe movement,
And why would one do that?
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?
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.
If anything like police abolition ever occurred, it’s easy to predict what would happen next
Based on...
No matter how many “restorative” programs it administers, even a benevolent centralized state cannot extinguish the risks of illness, violence, and disorde
Perfect Solution Fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy).
The evidence you've cited suggests that the goal is not perfection, but to get rid of a broken system.
but this strain of thought dates to the 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who believed that
Ecological Fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy), with a healthy dose of Straw Manning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man).
problem of evil
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/
Probably not a good idea to call it that when that name's already taken.
It’s unclear what legal authority the U.S. relied on to carry out the attack
That's a long way of saying "This is illegal".
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.
If we can prevent crime at these hot spots, then we might be able toreduce total crime.
Main appeal/benefit of the "hot spot" hypothesis.
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.
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?
The institutional control of sex follows three correlative line
Institutional Control of Sex
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.
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.
the basic principle in prostitution-
Basic principle: In a domiance-based system, using sexual stimulation to attain non-sexual ends (e.g. money).
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.
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.
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.)
(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".
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.
Given this fact, researchers could focus on the following core hypotheses derived from the theory
Adverse relations with others hold a positive relationship with delinquency.
Adverse relations hold a cumulative impact on delinquency after reaching a certain threshold.
Several variables condition adverse relation/strain's impact on delinquency.
it is important to note that the general strain theory is not presented here as a fully developed alternative to earlier theories
important caveat.
FACTORS AFFECTING THE DISPOSITION TO DELINQUEN
CONSTRAINTS TO NONDELINQUENT AND DELINQUENT COPING
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
BEHAVIORAL COPING STRATEGIE
Maximize positive/minimize negative outcomes: "I'm gonna focus on x", "I think I'll skip school today, I don't need that stress."
Vengeful behavior: "They did this to me! Time to get even!"
COGNITIVE COPING STRATEGI
Minimize the importance of the adversity: "Money's not important to me" or "Money's not as important as family".
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]".
Accept responsibility for adversity: "I brought this on myself anyway." "I'm just not that good".
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?
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.
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.
This alternative conception of strain has been largely neglected in criminol- og
Why neglected? Political considerations? Novelty? Difficulties operationalizing concepts?
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....
Why do so many middle-class kids commit acts of delinquency?
What about delinquents that commit crimes for non-financial reasons?
What about barriers such as race? (e.g. the "your money's no good here!" argument)
What about the ones who don't commit delinquency?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reacting to the Past
More Information: https://reacting.barnard.edu/