Take some time to explore this crime mapping tool for Los Angeles (https://www.crimemapping.com/map/ca/losangeles) or use one for your hometown or a city near you.

How might a criminologist use the earlier mentioned or similar crime mapping tool to prevent and reduce crime? If you used your own, provide it.

3 paragraphs.


Learning Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings
Benko, J. (2015, March 29). Big home: The strange and radical humaneness of Norway’s Halden Prison. New York Times Magazine, 10, 44–51.  

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

 Walden Writing Center. (n.d.). Common assignments: Critique/analysis. Retrieved March 5, 2018, from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/assignments/annotatedbibliographies/critique

Required Media
 LUXS Report. (2014, February 16). Luxury prison: Serving time with amenities [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgujwijPwxo

Criminal Justice Databases
 Walden Library. (n.d.). Criminal justice databases – Best bets. Retrieved March 5, 2018, from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/criminaljusticeresearch#s-lg-box-1525266

 

The following journals are excellent resources in which to locate peer-reviewed articles on criminal justice topics:

The Journal of Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Justice Quarterly

Criminology and Public Policy

Criminology

Optional Resources
 Fellner, J., Parker, A., & McFarland, M. (2014). Nation behind bars: A human rights solution. Retrieved from https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/2014_US_Nation_Behind_Bars_0.pdf