Criminology Term Papers: Writing about the Important Issues

• Forensic Victimology: Examining Violent Crime Victims in Investigative and Legal Contexts (by Turvey, B., Petherick, W.)
• Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime (by Presdee, M.)
• Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (Crime Science Series) (by Wortley, R.)
• Crime and Criminology (by White, R., Haines, F.)
• Crime and the Lifecourse (Criminology and Justice Studies) (by Benson, M.)
• Globality, Crime and Criminology (by Cain, M.)
• Gender and Crime: A Reader (Readings in Criminology and Criminal Justice) (by Evans, K, Jamieson, J.)
• Global Criminology: Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era (by Ronel, N.)
• Law and Crime (Key Approaches to Criminology) (by Johnstone, G.)
• Criminal Profiling, Third Edition: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis (by Turvey, B.)

Every of the mentioned books contains an endless range of ideas for your paper. A good way to form the term paper on criminology ideas is to browse the names of book chapters and to choose the ones that are interesting for you personally.
 
However, in case you only have an access to electronic resources, it is also a good opportunity for writing sustainable criminology term papers. The good strategy that can be adopted in this case is reading the site news, articles and posts, which can inspire for brilliant ideas for one’s paper. In order to do this, one may consider visiting the following sites for ideas:
 

IELTS test in india – January 2012 (General Training)

The IELTS exam in India (below) was shared by our kind friend N, who remembered the Writing and Speaking sections.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a letter)

Write a letter to the clothing shop manager and let her/him know about the problem you have noticed with the clothes you bought in from his/her shop, which is located in another city far away from your home town. In your letter

- Explain the problem you noticed. – Say what you felt when you noticed the problem. – Explain what you would like the manager to do.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Radio will no longer be able to hold its presence as television and Internet media will replace it very soon. Do you agree or disagree?

Speaking test

Interview

- What is your name? – Do you work or study? – What is the nature of business of your company? – Do you like to write letters or emails? – Do you use a laptop to write a letter or do you use a pen? – To whom mostly do you like to write? – Do you like collecting letters? – Do you think collecting letters is a good habit? – Do you live in a village or a city? – Tell me something about your home town. – What do you do to keep yourself fit? – Do you like running?

Cue card

Tell me about a journey you have taken when you were a child, please say

- Where you went – With whom you visited that place – How you went there, and – What you did there.

Did you enjoy your vacation?

Discussion

- Do you like to travel to the same place again? – What kind of transport do people of your city use mostly? – Do you think that using motorcycles is a good option for traveling? – Who do you think travels most, a person from a city or from a village? – Do you think that standards of transportation will improve in the future?

As Thousands of American Teachers Face Pink Slips, Teaching Is China’s Hottest Job

On recent shopping trip to Trader Joe’s, I discovered that the guy bagging my groceries was a laid-off elementary-school teacher. Hed taught for eight years and planned to be a teacher for life until the budget cuts that have raised class sizes and sent pink slips to tens of thousands of teachers nationwide put that dream on ice. “Know anywhere that’s hiring?” he asked me. “China,” I replied.

Indeed, a booming population and increased demand for education across the Pacific has left schools struggling to fill teaching vacancies, particularly for kindergarten teachers. According to Asian Correspondent, school leaders showed up to a recent job fair in Hebei province looking to fill nearly 9,000 positions. Only 810 applicants showed up, giving prospective teachers plenty of options.

Kindergarten teachers are in such demand in China that one applicant, Lin Li, spent a little over an hour at the fair and “had three kindergartens agree to sign me.” Kindergartens that serve students from wealthy families are recruiting across the country, offering vocational-school graduates twice the average salary of recent four-year university grads, plus insurance and housing.

The language barrier means teaching in China isnt an option for the thousands of laid-off American educators, like the one I met at the market. Until states stop gutting education budgets, hell have to keep making ends meet stocking shelves and bagging groceries.

Jan 16, Similar Triangles (with worked solutions & videos)

  Similar Triangles

 

 

Properties of Similar Triangles

Similar triangles have the following properties:

• They have the same shape but not the same size.
• Each corresponding pair of angles is equal.
• The ratio of any pair of corresponding sides is the same.

If the above two triangles are similar then

When the ratio is 1 then the similar triangles become congruent triangles (same shape and size).

 

 

How to tell if two triangles are similar

We can tell whether two triangles are similar without testing all the sides and all the angles of the two triangles. There are three rules to check for similar triangles. They are called the AA rule, SAS rule and SSS rule. As long as one of the rules is true, it is sufficient to prove that the two triangles are similar.

AA Rule

The Angle-Angle (AA) rule states that

If two angles of one triangle are equal to two angles of another triangle, then the triangles are similar.

This is also sometimes called the AAA rule because equality of two corresponding pairs of angles would imply that the third corresponding pair of angles are also equal.

Example 1: Given the following triangles, find the length of s

Solution:

Step 1: The triangles are similar because of the AA rule

Step 2: The ratios of the lengths are equal.

Step 3: Cross multiplying: 6s = 18 Þ s = 3

Answer:  The length of s is 3

 

 

SAS Rule

The Side-Angle-Side (SAS) rule states that

If the angle of one triangle is the same as the angle of another triangle and the sides containing these angles are in the same ratio, then the triangles are similar.

Example 2: Given the following triangles, find the length of s

Solution:

Step 1: The triangles are similar because of the RAR rule

Step 2: The ratios of the lengths are equal.

Answer:  The length of s is 3

 

SSS Rule

The Side-Side-Side (SSS) rule states that

If two triangles have their corresponding sides in the same ratio, then they are similar.

 

 

The following videos will investigate the properties of similar triangles

 

The following videos will introduce the concept of similar triangles.

 

 

Solving Problems with Similar Triangles

The following videos give more examples of how to solve problems using similar traingles.

 

Using similar triangles to solve shadow problems

 

 

 

ESEA Reauthorization: Everyone’s cards are on the table. Now let’s make a deal.

Home Jan 17, 2012 Issues: Education, ESEA

It has been ten years since the passage of No Child Left Behind, the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This law ensures that all children have an equal access to a quality education no matter their background. However, there is broad agreement that the law is now outdated and is restraining schools from making the kinds of improvements needed to benefit students, communities and the economy. 

Rewriting the outdated No Child Left Behind law will only happen through bipartisan consensus that serves the interests of all the nation’s children. Unfortunately, Education Committee Republicans recently released two highly partisan draft pieces of legislation in place of a whole-scale rewrite of NCLB that do not live up to our nation’s commitment to all of our children. This move likely means that the rewrite of the law won’t happen this year and millions of schoolchildren will have to remain under the current broken system.

In response, Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the Committee said that “the draft language abandons students, parents, and taxpayers alike by failing to hold school systems accountable for improving student achievement.  It walks away from the broad consensus reached throughout the country that our schools must prepare students to graduate college-ready and career-ready.  It undermines programs for our most vulnerable students, shirking the civil rights responsibilities of the federal government.  It eliminates critical programs and funding that promote a balanced education such as those that create a well-rounded curriculum or wrap-around services for students.  Additionally, the Kline draft removes critical assurances to taxpayers that states and districts maintain education funding.”

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is also unhappy with both the substance and the process. “I appreciate the effort, but this bill retreats from reform, accountability and bipartisanship,” he said. “We need to set politics aside and put kids first. Until Congress can pass a real bi-partisan reform bill that the president can sign, we’ll be moving forward with our ESEA flexibility package because America can’t wait.”

And Sen.Tom Harkin (D-IA), the chairman of the Senate Education Committee and the author of that chamber’s bill, also lamented that the bill only has Republican support. “I am disappointed that he [Rep. Kline] has abandoned the longstanding tradition of bipartisanship when it comes to the education of our kids,” he said.

Likewise, teacher, civil rights, disability, business, education reform, and other advocacy organizations are coming out against these proposals that will undercut gains made by our nation’s children over the last decade:

The Center for American Progress criticizes the bills for doing “more harm than good by returning almost all control of education to the local level. They would jeopardize important civil rights protections for disadvantaged students, reduce accountability for the use of taxpayer dollars, and promote partisan ideas that make it less likely NCLB actually gets reauthorized soon.”

Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia observed that “bipartisan gains for the nation’s high schools made under the Bush and Obama administrations would be threatened or lost under the House committee’s proposal.” For example, under these draft proposals, ”the federal requirement for high school graduation rate accountability would be eliminated,” and these drafts do not “call for necessary college- and career-ready standards and could limit the ability of the U.S. Department of Education to support the state-led effort to implement common assessments aligned with these standards.”

The New America Foundation noticed a few “surprising omissions” from the Republican draft bills, which “generally lessen the federal role in state and local K-12 education, particularly as it pertains to accountability and standards, putting more authority in states’ hands.” These drafts show what the GOP has “in mind for a future federal role in K-12 education: far fewer fiscal and accountability requirements for state and local school districts masquerading as flexibility and local control.” Furthermore, New America sees reauthorization as unlikely unless it’s bipartisan, and unless more lawmakers “start thinking about education as a coherent system from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade if they want to ensure more children are ready for kindergarten, reading by the end of third grade and on the path to graduate from high school ready for college and career.”

According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, these bills “represent a full retreat from accountability for students with disabilities and other disadvantaged children…[because they] fail to focus on closing the destructive achievement gaps that impacts” these students.

Education Sector warns that the proposals “could mean that far fewer schools – especially low-performing high schools that are less likely to be designated as Title I schools – are part of state school improvement efforts.” Alyson Klein, writing for Education Week, writes that the draft bills would “significantly scale back the federal role in K-12 schools and go further than any other proposal yet to dismantle the accountability tenets at the heart of” NCLB.

“I think this is a stage prop rather than a real legislative effort,” said Charles Barone, the director of federal legislation for Democrats for Education Reform. “They’re just doing this to say they did something.” Under the bill, accountability would be “pretty much anything goes,” he said. “It’s just a bunch of vague language.” 

Stanford University Education Profession Linda Darling-Hammond, who directs the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and was founding director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future

 

A School Librarian at Midwinter

Like many of you, I will be heading off to Dallas soon to attend the ALA Midwinter conference.  For the past few years, I have been on different committees ranging from Grant Administration to award selection.  Midwinter is always an exciting time to catch up with friends and see what is going on in the world of librarianship, yet it can feel overwhelming.  There are so many possibilities, so many meetings and so much new information.  I find it helpful to dive into a conference with specific goals in mind.

This year the lens I am wearing (outside of committee duties) is for finding new graphic novels to bring to my teachers.  My colleagues and I are developing a seed collection of graphic novels by grade level to aid our teachers, and while our own library collection of graphic novels is terrific, fresh titles are always appreciated!  To that end I hope to be able to spend some time on the floor speaking with publishers, and I also hope to be able to dip into one of the Notable Childrens Book Committee meetings as well.  If you have not sat in on an open committee meeting before, I encourage you to do so.  Not only does it give you a sense of what committee membership is like, but you will also walk away with a large amount of helpful information!

Do you have specific goals for your midwinter experience?