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#04 - K. Ryan Proctor - Breaking Down Crime: A Criminologist's Insight into Understanding Criminal Behavior and Prevention
1 hour 25 minutes Posted Mar 6, 2023 at 8:53 pm.
Introduction
What is crime?
What is a deviant action?
Hunter gathering society, crime, morality and norms
Why certain actions are considered morally bad?
Why alcohol is considered bad in certain cultures?
Difference between morals and norms?
Do animals have morals?
Can a bad moral action, get you criminal charge
Why certain humans choose to do a criminal act?
Why may not have freewill
Social Control theory
Learning theory
How society influences an individual to commit crime
How society influences law and regulations
Race and crime
Judging people based on their appearance
Business world and judgment based on appearance
Intuition and evolution
Intuition to detect a bad person
Ryan's approach to studying crime
Biggest challenges criminologists facing today
Can we predict a criminal baby
Are morals human construct
Why there's no objective wrong or right
Would we consider present good morals bad in the future?
How governments prevent crime from happening
Effective ways to prevent crime
Reason why Immigrants commit crimes
Criminal mafia having trouble recruiting people
How lack of money breeds crime
Solution to lack of money
Gangs and violence
How citizens & society can help reduce crime
Why certain countries have lower crime rate
Example of a country dealing with immigration and crime successfully
How weather may affect crime rates
How video games reduced crime
Routine activities theory
Future of criminilogy
Why criminology discipline sticking to policy side
How sociologists are amazing at logically arguing
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K. Ryan Proctor is a criminologist and sociologist who focuses on developing a transdisciplinary criminology by integrating biological, psychological, and sociological insights.
He earned his degrees in sociology from the University of Washington and the University of California at Riverside and has engaged in diverse research on health, inequality, and criminology. He is an associate professor at Avila University and published a book on Mechanistic Criminology in 2019.
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