Criminology: A Down-to-Earth Approach

Michael Braun, PhD
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Criminology: A Down-to-Earth Approach highlights the social-ecological aspects of everyday life and its relevance to crime.

Episodes

  1. 08/08/2024

    Strategies For Change

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

    30 min

  2. 08/03/2024

    Why Doesn't Deterrence Work?

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

    39 min

  3. 08/01/2024

    Are We Soft On Crime?

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

    30 min

  4. 07/29/2024

    What's Race Got To Do With It?

    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.

    27 min

  5. 07/25/2024

    Why Aren't People Working?

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

    29 min

  6. 07/22/2024

    The Jobs Problem

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

    26 min

  7. 07/05/2024

    Why are we here?

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

    17 min

  8. 07/02/2024

    Crime and Society: An introduction

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

    16 min

  9. 10/14/2020

    Welfare: Myths and Realties

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

    37 min

  10. 09/26/2020

    Poverty and Inequality in the US and the World

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

    35 min

  11. 09/19/2020

    Poverty: Myths and Realities

    This episode explains three main myths about poverty in the United States.

    15 min

  12. 09/12/2020

    How many people are struggling with poverty in the US and how do we know?

    This podcast examines how many people are struggling with poverty in the United States, how we calculate that number, and whether the numbers provide us an accurate assessment of the reality of poverty in the US.

    24 min
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