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Although textbooks, journal articles, and lectures are important, movies are one of the most effective teaching tools available to criminology and criminal justice instructors. They can communicate ideas, emotions, institutional realities, and ethical dilemmas in ways that the written word often struggles with. Throughout my teaching career, I have selectively incorporated narrative films into my […]
Almost a half-century ago, one of the first purchases I made in preparation for leaving my parents’ house was a Hudson’s Bay Company wool point blanket. I walked into the HBC department store at suburban Fairview Mall, found the item with its iconic wide green, red, yellow, and indigo horizontal stripes on a white background, […]
On my first visit, I brought my Japanese knives (the short deba and the long yanagiba), packed away in my knife case. Then, standing at the trunk of my car, parked across the street from the restaurant, I decided to leave them in the trunk. I had been studying and cooking Washoku (traditional Japanese food) […]
Unlike some other social sciences, criminology and criminal justice consistently produce job openings. But not all positions are created equal, and where you land can affect your career and your mental health in ways your graduate advisor never mentioned. And many young criminologists enter their first position with unrealistic expectations about just about everything. Whether […]
There’s a big gap between what the general public thinks criminologists do and what we actually do. Most people assume we work in forensics, consult on detective cases, or spend our days profiling serial killers. That’s understandable. The media leans hard into that image, and some criminologists do work in forensic-adjacent fields. But I’m an […]
