Join me today as I briefly introduce you to some frameworks- environmental justice and ecological justice—and the theoretical orientation within green criminology favored by those who wish to include animal rights.

Welcome back! Join me today as I introduce you to green criminology.

Even though I have been exploring conflict theory for some weeks, I’ll continue as we venture into Turk's analysis of conflict and the criminalization process.

Today I’ll continue to explore conflict theory by looking at Vold’s analysis of conflict and crime.

Join me in this week's short episode, in which I explore culture conflict theory.

Join me today as I venture into control theories through the work of George Simmel, a German intellectual with a deep interest in social theory, and Willem Bonger.

Shifting from labeling theory, join me today as I briefly introduce conflict theory.

Join me today as I address the concept of restorative justice—a different approach to justice.

Join me today as we venture into Rose and Clear's Coerced Mobility theoretical model regarding mass incarceration in impoverished communities.

Ever wonder how law enforcement and legal authorities treat you affects your view of law and legal authorities? If so, and you want a better understanding, join me today as I discuss procedural justice.

Join me today as I venture into Sherman’s defiance theory and how it provided a foundation to better understand the conditions under which punishment increases crime.

Have you ever been shamed for doing something deemed “bad?” If so, join me in today's episode as I discuss shaming theory.

Join me today as I introduce you to cultural criminology as a subfield in the study of crime that seeks to understand crime through the context of culture and cultural processes.

Join me today as I briefly address the topic of homelessness, also referred to as houselessness. If you are struggling with homelessness/houselessness, visit https://endhomelessness.org

Join me today for a lengthy episode as I delve into one of my favorite theories—labeling theory.

Join me today as I cover Cullen's Social Support Theory which is centered on the proposition that instrumental, informational, and emotional supports reduce the likelihood of delinquency and crime.

Have you ever pondered about how someone's environment during their youth can affect their life course? If so, join me today as I venture into differential coercion theory and crime.

Ever wonder why you've never robbed a bank to pay off your student loans? Well, Dr. Tittle might have an answer.

Is your home full of gender stereotypes or sexist undertones? If so, join me today as I venture into Hagan’s Power-Control Theory and explore how the family class structure derives its power configurations from the occupational positions held by the spouses outside and inside the home.

Join me today as I venture into the self-control theory of crime, often referred to as the general theory of crime.

Join me today as I venture into yet another control theory built upon the assumption that people are inherently self-interested. Today, I will explain, through Hirschi’s perspective why some people refrain from crime rather than engage in crime.

Welcome back and Happy New Year! Join me in today’s episode as I venture into Sykes and Matza’s Neutralization and Drift theory.

Join me on our final episode of season one as I venture into Reckless’s Containment Theory.

NEW SCHEDULE, NEW EPISODE! Join me today as we delve into one of my favorite theories, routine activity theory (RAT).

Join me today in a brief episode as I delve into Nye’s Family-Focused Theory of Social Controls.

Join me today as we delve into one of the many early control theories of crime—Reiss’s Theory of Personal and Social Controls.

Recapping what we have learned so far, tune in as I briefly introduce you to control theories.

Ever heard about the idea of a white picket fence and economic success? If so, you might have heard of the AMERICAN DREAM. But how is this related to crime, you may ask—tune into today’s episode as we explore the concept of the American Dream and Crime (Book Recommended: Crime And the American Dream by Steven Messner and Richard Rossenfeld).

Building on Anomie and Strain Theory, join me as we cover Agnew’s general strain theory.

Ever heard of the American Dream? Tune in to today's episode as we venture into Merton’s anomie and strain theory and how it pertains to the American Dream and deviance.

Join me as we delve into why birds of a feather flock together through the lens of social learning theory.

LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. A bonus Off the Record episode with doctoral student Sheena Gilbert, a citizen of the Stockbridge Munsee Tribe in Wisconsin. We hope this episode brings some awareness to Native American victimization. In the United States, more than four in five Native Americans and Alaska Native adults (83%) have experienced some form of violence in their lifetime. This epidemic was being going for decades as Native Americans and Alaska Native communities have struggled with high rates of assault, abduction, and murder of women.

Join me today as I deep dive into Dr. Elijah Anderson’s acclaimed book, “Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City.”

Tune in as I discuss cultural deviance theory, which seeks to explain criminal activity by focusing on the community in which crime occurs rather than the individual lawbreaker. You’ll be briefly introduced to some of the proponents of this theory and learn about some of its strengths and weaknesses.

Political…maybe a bit too political. Join me as I touch upon some of the social-political context of left realism.

LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Discussing hard topics on this show is not abnormal, but today's topic is especially hard and emotionally heavy to my soul. Introducing the topic of sexual grooming, both in children and adults, I hope to bring some awareness to the evolution and history of grooming, understanding the evolution and history of the concept of grooming, the diversity of cases, and the need for legislation. Please take care while listening. Help is available: Speak with someone today through the National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233. If you are a witness to or a victim of child abuse there is help out there—speak with someone today through the National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-4-422-4453.

Have you ever perceived the police as either too absent or unresponsive in your neighborhood? Do you perceive law enforcement as illegitimate or unresponsive? If so, you could be displaying high levels of legal cynicism.

Continuing our journey through the Chicago School of thought, we reject individualism and observe how neighborhood conditions affect allegiance to traditional values.

Looking at the sociology of crime, join me as I delve into collective efficacy and introduce you to the work of Professor Robert Sampson and colleagues.

Off the record, with September being Suicide Awareness Month, I think it’s important to shed some light on a trailblazer for the indigent mentally ill, in the age of reform—Dorothea Dix. In this episode, I will introduce you to her achievements and her role in the age of reform regarding asylums for the mentally ill and the improvements in prison conditions.

If you have ever wonder why your parent(s) or legal guardian have ever tell you not to hang out with someone... this is the criminological theory to your answers. Join me in as I venture into Sutherland's Differential Association Theory.

Surprise! This episode will be covering two concepts– Burgess's Concentric Zone Model and Shaw and McKay's Social Disorganization Theory. This episode will talk about how urban sociology has bleed into criminology.

It be a crime not to tune in to today's episode as I discuss one of my favorite schools of thought—the Chicago School of Criminology (Ecological School).

Off the Record, this episode delves into cultural competency as a death investigator. *SPOILER ALERT* If you are a NCIS fan, I might be able to help you understand this concept as you watch your favorite show.

Tune in if you are interested in learning how the IQ tests came to be used to trace crime in the personality of the offender.

Join me today as I dig a little deeper into the theoretical arguments of what was called the "new criminology," left realism, and abolitionism, which we can see as part of postmodern critiques grounded in the grand narrative of Marxism.

This episode is for those who are interested in forensics and death investigation. For those students wondering what else to do with their Criminal Justice degree or who are looking into a different career. If you are interested in the guidelines and components of death investigation, read “Death Investigation: A Guide for the Field Investigator:” https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/death-investigation-guide-scene-investigator-technical-update

Let's get physical! Somatotyping is the classifying of people into types according to body build. In this episode, I will discuss some of the theories that relate distinctive body types to personality characteristics and relates criminal behavior to the body types.

Join me today, in one of my longer episodes, as I venture into the legacy of the Positivist School (Italian School of Criminology) through the life of two of Lombroso's students–Enrico Ferri and Raffaele Garofalo.

Join me as I share my take into the Positivist School and the search of the "criminal man."