TO: Students in CJ 633
FROM: R. B. Taylor
DATE: 12/8/03
RE: Questions for final quiz; comments on final paper times

The final quiz will take place on 12/15/03 at 3:00 pm in the usual classroom. It is a closed book, no-notes quiz.

The purpose of this quiz is to encourage you to think about how to integrate the last three readings we have had in this course.

I recognize that prepping for this quiz takes time away from working on your paper, therefore the question or questions you see on the quiz WILL  PROBABLY come from this list shown below. You will probably only see one or two questions; I do not know yet if you will have a choice - you may all be asked to write on the same question.

Although I encourage you to network with other students about these questions, I DISCOURAGE you from jointly-preparing answers - then I would not know whose work I was grading.

1. In what ways does Venkatesh's story about crime and related problems and responses to crime and related problems in Robert Taylor Homes illustrate the limitations of the systemic control model described by Bursik and Grasmick? Be sure to give a couple of specific examples.  Stated differently, in what ways does this case study show community dynamics that are either opposite what that model predicts, or that are not addressed by that model?
2. In what ways does Venkatesh's multi-decade story about quality of life problems  and crime problems in RTH, underscore the correctness and importance of  Bursik and Grasmick's inclusion of the public level of control in the systemic model. Give a couple cogent examples.
3. In what ways does Venkatesh's story about crime and related problems and responses to crime and related problems in Robert Taylor Homes support Harcourt's suggestion that the separation between orderly and disorderly people, or between orderly and disorderly behavior, is a false dichotomy. Be sure to give a couple of examples, preferably from before the gangs started taking over in the late 1980s.
4. Describe the biggest empirical limitation AND the biggest conceptual limitation of disorder reduction policing. This means you are describing two limitations. You will use the Harcourt book for the conceptual and BAFBW for the empirical.  Keep this short.

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PAPERS WILL BE DUE NEXT THURSDAY, 12/18, AT FOUR PM. Remember to follow the ASC Criminology format as described in the original syllabus. Your paper should include the following pieces in the following order:
- title page
- abstract page
- body of the paper (for an empirical paper this will include statement of the problem; method and data; results; discussion)
- references
- tables
- figures

I will be grading the final papers as follows:
5% - follow Criminology formatting guidelines
5% - correctly formatted and clear title, abstract, tables, references, and figures
30% - clarity and comprehensiveness of statement of the problem, including its relation to class readings
30% - clarity and comprehensiveness of the description of the data, and analysis procedures
15% - clarity and organization of presented results
15% - clarity and organization and class relevance of discussion of results

IF YOU WANT ME TO GIVE YOU FEEDBACK ON A DRAFT VERSION I WILL NEED THAT DRAFT WHEN YOU SHOW UP ON 12/15 FOR THE FINAL QUIZ.

You can email me papers but if you do so email to BOTH:
cjchair@temple.edu
tuclasses@rbtaylor.net