Criminology: A Down-to-Earth Approach

This podcast discusses strategies for change to reduce violence in the United States.

This podcast explores why deterrence doesn't work to reduce crime.

This podcast explores the relationship between severity of punishment and crime rates.

This episode explores the impact race has on poverty and details the role work, welfare, and housing discrimination had on current wealth and disparity of Black Americans.

We discuss the reasons why people aren't working and the kinds of jobs they get when they do.

This episode explores the problems with how the US measures the official unemployment rate.

This podcast explores why it's important to understand the social context of crime.

This is the first lecture in a podcast series explaining the contextual issues that give rise to crime in communities.

This episode explores the myths about welfare in the United States and the results of the mid-90s welfare reform (PRWORA).

In this episode we compare poverty in the United States to the rest of the world.