SECTION: KEY IDEAS AND INDICATORS, THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, AND IMPLICATIONS

TOPICS: Levels of analysis. Some basic structure ideas. Crime counts vs. crime rates. Key data sources; Concepts and indicators: economic well being; economic inequality. Why are we interested in differences between countries? implications for migrant smuggling, trafficking and migration patterns.
IN CLASS EXERCISE: Using Gapminder
READ:
(1) Finnegan Finnegan, W. (May 5, 2008). "The countertraffickers." The New Yorker 44-59.
(2) Hughes, D. M., & Denisova, T. (2003). "Trafficking in women from Ukraine." Final grant report: 2000-IJ-CX-2007. National Institute of Justice. Only executive summary included.
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TOPICS: One final piece of international context: Caribbean violence and correlates. Idea of risk factors. Economic well being vs. inequality. Local impacts: in PA counties: Caribbean as percent of foreign born.
IN CLASS EXERCISE: using Census mapping
READ:
(1) World Bank (2007) "Crime, Violence, and Development: Trends, Costs, and Policy Options in the Caribbean." READ ONLY pp. 26-34 (Bb)
(2) Wilkinson & Pickett:pp. xii - 10 ; 15 - 29 FROM: Wilkinson, R., & Pickett, K. (2009). The Spirit Level. New York: Bloomsbury Press

PAPER 1 DUE 2/09/2011

SECTION: THE METROPOLITAN AREA PART I: HISTORICAL DYNAMICS AND CHANGES

TOPICS: The Metropolitan Area part I: What is it? What does it mean? How was it changing in the early part of the 20th Century?
IN CLASS EXERCISE: Census maps of metro areas, and census data for metro areas. Focus on PA
READ: Rod McKenzie (1933). The Metropolitan Community. 3-7, 54-58, AND 173-190

SECTION: THE METROPOLITAN AREA PART II: CORE DECONCENTRATION AND DECLINE OF MANUFACTURING CONTINUES

TOPICS: 1970 TO TODAY PART I: urban economic deconcentration, growth of the urban underclass. Broader implications of the spatial mismatch.
READ:
(1) Wilson: Chapter 2 pp 24-50. FROM: Wilson, W. J. (1996). When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Knopf.

PAPER 2 DUE: 3/4/2011

SECTION:
EXPANDING OUT PAST THE URBAN CORE AND SUBURBAN FRINGE: THE RURAL-URBAN CONTINUUM

TOPICS: 1970 TO TODAY PART III: implications for Urban, suburban, and rural structural differences. Indicators: classifying counties. What are the key differences in structure? How does this play out in crime rates? ; PA and the US.
IN CLASS EXERCISE: PA COUNTY LEVEL CRIME AND POSITION ON THE RURAL-URBAN CONTINUUM
READ:
(1) USDA Economic Research Service: Measuring Rurality: Rural-Urban Continuum Codes
ONLINE AT: http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/rurality/ruralurbcon/
(2) USDA Economic Research Service: Measuring Rurality: What is Rural?
ONLINE AT: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Rurality/WhatisRural/

SECTION:
STILL EXPANDING THE GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE: SOUTHERN SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE THESIS AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES MORE GENERALLY

TOPIC: Regional violent crime differences in the United States and the Southern hypothesis
READ: Nisbett, R. E. (1993). Violence and U.S. Regional culture. American Psychologist, 48, pp. 441-449.

SECTION:
CITY SIZE AND CRIME PART I: DRUGS AND DRUG MARKETS AND AN ECONOMIC VIEW

TOPICS: City size, economics, and crime: Drug markets
READ:
Rengert pp. 19-28; 57-61 FROM: Rengert, G. (1996). The Geography of illegal drugs. Boulder: Westview.

SECTION:
CITY SIZE AND CRIME PART II: UNDERLYING SOCIAL DIFFERENCES AND THE URBANISM THESIS

TOPICS: What are the social and cultural differences associated with city size differences? Do these cleanly link to differences in crime rates?
READ:
(1) Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a way of life. American Journal of Sociology, 44(1), 1-23.

IN CLASS EXERCISE: Using the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics to look up crime differences by city size

SECTION:
CITY SIZE AND CRIME PART III: THE SYSTEM OF CITIES PERSPECTIVE, THE BROADER SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE VIEW, AND DOUBLY BURDENED CITIES

READ:
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1999). Now is the time: Places left behind in the new economy. Washington, DC. [ONLINE: http://archives.hud.gov/news/1999/leftbehind/toc.html ] READ ONLY EXEC SUMMARY AND MAIN FINDINGS - THESE ARE THE PAGES PDFED ON BLACKBOARD

PAPER 3 DUE: 4/15

SECTION: CRIME AND CRIME IMPACTS AND PHILADELPHIA PATTERNS

TOPIC: And what are the CONSEQUENCES of crime: Philadelphia neighborhoods again
READ: Taylor, R. B. (1995). Impact of crime on communities. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 539, 28-45.

TOPIC: Looking at one impact: does crime erode trust in neighbors? ALSO (time permitting) Structure and violent crime in Philadelphia: economics or race or something different?  and what about spatial diffusion and clustering?
READ: ONLY THE INTRO AND DISCUSSION!!
Garcia, R. M., Taylor, R. B., & Lawton, B. A. (2007). Impacts of violent crime and neighborhood structure on trusting your neighbors. Justice Quarterly, 24(4), 679-704. PDF

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