Criminology Make-up
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Criminology out of class Participation Credit
For each lesson or each class period that you have missed, you need to complete a makeup assignment for participation points. You can choose from the list below, or do your own idea, if it is approved by me. Some ideas for makeups include reading and annotating an article, listening to a podcast, or watching a TV show related to topics in Criminology. For each makeup assignment, spend 1/2 HOUR , you need to take notes and write a brief reflection, as well as recommendation for the source that you have chosen. If you watch a 1 hour episode, you can count that for 2 assignments (=totals 1 hours). Please post what you did in TEAMS chat channel and Turn it in to me on TEAMS assignments.
Intro UNIT One:
You can watch "Paper Tigers" documentary on Amazon Prime Video and write a reflection/response, about an alternative HS in Walla Walla, WA based on ACES responsive teaching. "it's good". ~ Eubank
You can read & annotate: "The Family that Built an Empire of Pain" article in the Atlantic magazine, I have in PDF, if you want me to send it or check OneNote
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it read this & annotate it. Then Reflect & tell me what you think.
Chasing Heroin – Frontline Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8cJ0JfK88 or https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chasing-heroin/ if we watched in our class, try something else!
Benzo Dope and Tranq: The Next Wave of the Overdose Crisis VICE 41 min.
Untreated and Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America (1 hr 17 min)
An Inside Look Into The Fentanyl Epidemic | Ten Dollar Death Trip | Documentary Central - YouTube (50 min.)
Read and reflect on the photo-journalism TIME story I showed you in class https://time.com/jeffrey-stockbridge-kensington-philadelphia-photographs/
KOMO's Eric Johnson explores the impact the drug and homelessness problem is having on our city and possible solutions in "Seattle is Dying." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw 1 hour, recommended by Officer John Knutsen
You can follow up with
“Bellingham is dying” is a short documentary about the rising homeless population in Bellingham, and how the recent BLM and defund the police riots have been one of the large contributors for this homeless problem, it covers how the homeless camps have evolved, where they have been and the incidents that have occurred. The documentary connects how inflation is happening in grocery stores due to shoplifting and theft combinded with the rising problem of our understaffed police department, (this documentary was very in favor of law enforcement if you couldn’t tell) if you would like to check it out yourself you can find it on YouTube, the channel is “Bellingham metro news” recommended by Caleb.
"Tens of Thousands die each year from Opioid overdoses each year" article in the Economist, read and annotate. Attached at bottom
Painkillers on Netflix- limited series Lily recommends because it shows you the production and spread of Opioids
IF you want to learn more and even read some of the "unsealed testimony" from the Sackler case check this out https://www.judgeforyourselves.info/ (all legal information pertaining to the Sackler case) rec. by Landen Ruben
Dope Sick mini series recommended from Defender Jane Boman, *mature content advisory "Dopesick” examines how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Big Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/podcasts/the-daily/sackler-oxycontin-purdue-opioid-crisis.html
Portugal was the first nation to decriminalize all drugs and to provide treatment
The Drug Science Podcast and website with Professor David Nutt
Book, Chasing the Scream The First And Last Days Of The War On Drugs by Johann Hari
PSR Psychedelic Science Review podcast and journal with articles
Dark History podcast episodes on Spotify and YOUTUBE there is an episode on Crack v Cocaine
I watched Shiny Flakes -The Teenage Drug Lord, the documentary on Netflix. It’s about a teen (Maximilian Schmidt) and he was an online drug dealer, and he did all of this from his house. The interesting this is that he never did any of the drugs he was sold. He literally had zero to no experience when he started off, and he did this for 2 years.
Great Books to Read Available in Our Library
Unit 1: Drugs
Explores the history of the Dreamland swimming pool of the blue-collar Ohio city of Portsmouth, which when built in 1929 was the size of a football field. Becoming the central feature of the community, the Dreamland pool fell out of use and into decay with this small Ohio community's unraveling due to mass addiction to the prescription drug OxyContin. Tracks the origins of OxyContin to a small county in Mexico and how it became highly addictive to young people in the United States.
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Chronicles the era of Prohibition, revealing how the ban on the production and sale of alcohol sparked one of the most crime-filled eras in American history. Spotlights some of the individuals whose lawlessness rose them to stardom in the eyes of many Americans and includes black-and-white
Unit 2: Mass incarceration & the Justice System
Attend a Teen Court session (counts for 2 classes makeup) 3rd Wednesday of the month 5:45 pm, now open on ZOOM!
Attend Drug Court, every Thursday @ 2:30 pm 3rd floor Whatcom Court House with Judge Grochmal (counts for 2 make-ups) *sometimes there is a zoom link, let me know if you want to attend.
Listen to Ear-hustle podcast recommended by Defender Maggie Peach
listen to a podcast, Serial, https://serialpodcast.org/ for makeup credits.
· Season 3 is all about the criminal justice system in individual (stand-alone) stories (for incarceration Unit)
· Season 1 is an on-going story of a high school murder (for theories of Crime or other)
This American Life “Weeds of Discontent” made by the film-maker Eugene Jarecki (From the movie we watched in class: The House I live in) is a conversation between a guard and an inmate after they watched the movie! This American Life: "Weeds of Discontent "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/501/the-view-from-in-here/act-one
Policing the Police 54m A rare look inside a troubled police department being forced to reform. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/policing-the-police/
Listen to the podcast: https://thisiscriminal.com/ Criminal is a podcast with different stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
Want an inside look at what it's like to be a Bellingham police officer? Come ride along with Officer Subia 14 min. as he responds to patrol calls in the Paul-1 area, which covers the north end of Bellingham. No two days are ever the same for a patrol officer, but this ride along provides a great representation of what calls for service are like in our community.
The Story of Curtis Flowers https://features.apmreports.org/in-the-dark/ Child abductions are rare crimes. And they're typically solved. For 27 years, the investigation into the abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota yielded no answers. In the most comprehensive reporting on this case, APM Reports, and reporter Madeleine Baran reveal how law enforcement mishandled one of the most notorious child abductions in the country and how those failures fueled national anxiety about stranger danger, led to the nation's sex-offender registries and raise questions about crime-solving effectiveness and accountability.
Prison Videos – Frontline Locked up in America Part.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siIPV0rvD2Q
Locked up in America Part. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYNusVNn7k
Documentary: 13th is available on Netflix and works as an excellent choice Netflix also put it for free on YOUTUBE!
the movie, The House I Live In
Tutwiler, a new documentary short directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon and reported and produced by The Marshall Project’s Alysia Santo, offers an unforgettable window into the lives of incarcerated pregnant women — and what happens to their newborns. As women are now the fastest growing incarcerated population in the U.S. — Tutwiler is a powerful lens into the reality of pregnancy and parenthood behind bars https://youtu.be/rWv66yLetI4 34 min
You can read a chapter from Michelle Alexander’s book, “The Lockdown” I have it in PDF, check OneNote
Forensic Files (14 seasons) free options (just search) or by $ on Prime
John Green's playlist dealing with Racism topics https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMs_JcuNozJb-5TJ3uuvqPzQVjO_XarED watch 60 minutes of these
Podcast Backstory 250: Land of the Free? The History of Incarceration in the U.S. 40 min prisoners across the U.S. took part in a National Prison strike protesting how they are used as cheap labor, and calling for an end to “prison slavery.” In this episode, Brian, Nathan and Joanne reflect on the history of prison labor and learn more about the challenges facing those behind bars.
Podcast: How a New York Jail Failed its Inmates: no heat, no power https://nyti.ms/2V2hwEX
Redlining TAL episode 512: HOUSE RULES, gives the History of Laws that created Ghettos, redlining, podcast http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/house-rules (listen) http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/transcript
We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2tOp7OxyQ8
Watch the movie, Just Mercy https://www.justmercyfilm.com/ here are ways to stream it for free. This movie is based on the book written by Bryan Stevenson, who tells the true story of Walter McMillian as he appeals his murder conviction. The movie is rated PG-13. You can also read a chapter of his book (I have a copy if you want to borrow).
This American Life Podcast: "Throw the Book at Them" is about a High School inside the New Orleans jail: good for Juvenile justice, incarceration, and possibly restorative justice youthhttps://www.thisamericanlife.org/648/unteachable-moment/act-two-7
Listen to news stories on criminal justice https://www.npr.org/sections/criminal-justice-collaborative
The documentary Police on Trial draws on unique on-the-ground reporting and filming, from the earliest days after George Floyd’s death, to documenting the trial and murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, to ongoing struggles for police accountability and reform in Minneapolis. PBS Frontline.
Consider watching The Fall in Minneapolis on You Tube based on body camera footage interviews with officers, witnesses, and experts following the death of George Floyd. This documentary exposes the misinformation and truth. Highly recommended by Jon Knutsen BPD.
To dig deeper with critical analysis of of the documentary We Were Too Quick to Praise "The Fall in Minneapolis" by Glenn Loury
Do Not Defund: Roland Fyer and Rafel Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century two professors discuss defunding the police on Youtube 57 min. recommended by BPD guest speaker
When They See Us — History Must Be Faced. Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries is a wrenching, four-episode rundown of the Central Park Five, a group of African-American teenage boys who were convicted without evidence of a 1989 rape. The five were exonerated in 2002 after another man confessed, but DuVernay skillfully explores what the intervening years in prison were like for these innocents.
Two Strikes, documentary by Frontline PBS, tells the story of how Mark Jones, a former West Point cadet struggling with PTSD and alcoholism, got life in prison in Florida after an attempted carjacking — a sentence that even the victim viewed as too harsh. “My sentence is life without the possibility of parole. So I’m in here till I die,” Jones says from prison in Two Strikes.
Adam ruins everything- Adam ruins the prison system and other investigations of Criminology using comedy YOUTUBE shorts, watch all
"Why Scandinavian Prisons are Superior" Explains how prisons are in other nations. Very interesting.
Documentary film, (trailer) Dharma Brothers about convicted murderers in Alabama who are serving life who participate in an intensive mediation program while incarcerated. Studies by Stanford University, University of Washington and participating prisons have reported sharp declines in disciplinary action, violence, self-reported drug use and recidivism following implementation of the program. Dharma Brothers (I found this link on YOUTUBE-free- but you can also watch on iTunes, Vimeo or Amazon if the link gets taken down)
“Caught” a podcast about juvenile justice scenarios, another interesting series called Caught about experiences in juvenile justice, https://www.npr.org/podcasts/589480586/caught
Also try this series on Code Switch? https://www.npr.org/series/557324733/a-year-at-ron-brown-high-school
"Sent Away" Utah has become a national center for youth treatment, and it goes easy on the industry. At one facility, teen girls were forced to sit in a horse trough as punishment, and state regulators chose not to punish the people who did it. Podcast.
Investigative journalism Article about the youth treatment centers, "When Wilderness Boot Camps take Tough Love too Far"
Interactive article about juveniles in adult prison & education, goes with TAL https://www.thisamericanlife.org/648/unteachable-moment/act-two-7
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/06/08/the-hardest-lesson-on-tier-2c
Second Chance Kids Inside the fight over the fate of juveniles in prison for murder, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/second-chance-kids/
You can check out this book about juvenile justice, Burning Down the House * in school library
To learn more about African American History check out the Crash Course series. I recommend, Black Lives Matter and Mass Incarceration as particularly related to our class.
TAL Episode 538- https://www.thisamericanlife.org/538/is-this-working "Is This Working" youth restorative justice we will do in class, please listen if you are absent
Inside the Fight Against the School-to-Prison Pipeline | Voces Media + FRONTLINE watch on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeNwZLe2zYo&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ICYMI&utm_content=campaign_910362
Defending Gideon: Defending the Right to Counsel in the United States On YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXvUF1XhP80
Gideon’s Army for free on Amazon Prime https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/movies/defending-the-underclass-in-gideons-army.html
Read this article and annotate "How Americans lost the Right to Counsel 50 Years After Gideon" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/how-americans-lost-the-right-to-counsel-50-years-after-gideon/273433/
Public Defenders cites the Miranda right to attorney- goes well with Defending Gideon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_b78GSBUs
Public Defenders: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USkEzLuzmZ4
John Oliver Criminal Justice Prosecutors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) The episode actually mentions our Whatcom County Prosecutor of 44 years! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_b78GSBUs&feature=youtu.be
Short Youtube video recommended by student, Gregory, Why Cops Beat You In The Interrogation Room
An American Summer' Looks At How Gun Violence 'Gets In People's Bones' 36 min. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700341774/american-summer-looks-at-how-gun-violence-gets-in-people-s-bones Summary: Mainly speaks about the effects of prolonged exposure to local violence, compares with effects experienced by deployed soldiers. There’s a good bit about restorative justice, and on the unique difficulty of this situation. The whole interview is very worthwhile. Based on the Book, An American Summer by Alex Kolowitz
Broken Justice https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts/broken-justice SCROLL down as there are several links to (6+) podcasts and a video link from the PBS series
The Thread On the heels of two Webby nods, the current season of The Thread takes a dark turn and focuses on six notorious criminal cases, all of which feature the legal defense of "not guilty by way of insanity."
12 Angry Men, movie about a Jury
ON Netflix, you can watch Blacklist, fictional account of organized crime.
Live P.D show Kyle Nelson
The Innocent Files and it's about Chester the 3rd that was serving a life sentence without parole. He had been in prison for 28 years when this was filmed. They had tried for years to close his case and prove that he was innocent. Recommended by Bronwyn "I would highly recommend this tv show/ series. This show gave me so much information and helped me learn so much about the criminal justice system and what is wrong with it and what needs to be changed."
Great Books to Read Available in Our Library
Unit Two: Mass Incarceration and the Justice System
Research and personal stories explore the history, the many manifestations, and the consequences of racial profiling in the United States.
Examines the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin for the rape and murder of his nine-year-old neighbor and where the justice system went wrong.
Follows the arrests, confessions, trials, and convictions of fifteen innocent people who were nonetheless convicted and sent to prison before they were exonerated. They tell their stories to a group of high-profile mystery and thriller writers who describe what went wrong and offer data about crime and prison issues in order to make readers aware of these problems.
Presents opposing viewpoints about prison issues. Includes critical thinking skill activities and a list of organizations to contact.
Author Nell Bernstein argues that there is no "good way" to lock up a child, as she investigates the flaws within the juvenile justice system.
Looks at the events surrounding the closing of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida, a reform school that had been in use for one hundred years, in which several of the students were physically and sexually abused.
Examines the murder case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were executed in 1927 for a crime they claimed they did not commit. Explores personal journals, diaries, police reports, and newspapers from the era, as well as live interviews from descendants of all who were involved in the case. Offers the analysis that the two Italian immigrants, Sacco and Vanzetti, may have been innocent.
On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed reached the highest court in the land. Yet, following one of the most ghastly incidents of mass murder in American history, not one person was convicted . . . Lawrence Goldstone traces the evolution of the law and the fascinating characters involved in the story of how [he believes] the Supreme Court helped institutionalize racism in the American justice system
Explores the numerous murders of members of the Osage Indian Tribe in Oklahoma during the 1920s after they became rich due to the oil found on their land. Describes how the FBI badly hurt the case and what they did to try and find the killers.
As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
Ellingham Academy in Vermont is full of riddles, twisting pathways, and winding gardens. Shortly after it is opened by Albert Ellingham in 1936, Albert's wife and daughter are kidnapped. The only clue is a riddle describing various methods of murder and signed, "Truly, Devious." Years later, true-crime buff Stevie Bell enters Ellingham Academy with a goal to solve the cold case. Then Truly Devious makes a surprising return, and another death rocks Ellingham Academy.
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. 'Boys just being boys' turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it?
If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes.
Unit Three: Sex Trafficking, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Read and annotate the article https://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/30/somaly-mam-holy-saint-and-sinner-sex-trafficking-251642.html about the Cambodian organization against human trafficking and it's founder. Somaly Mam: The Holy Saint (and Sinner) of Sex TraffickingBy Simon Marks /
Frontline Episode, in our second segment, we travel to Iraq, investigating how — to increasing concern among other Iraqi Shias — some Iraqi clerics are abusing an ancient Islamic marriage practice to exploit women and girls. With undercover reporting, Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade exposes clerics who offer to perform what’s known as muta’ah or munqata’a — “pleasure” or “temporary” marriages — between adult men and girls as young as 13 in exchange for money. The documentary also shows clerics essentially acting as pimps, and offers the chilling accounts of young women who say they were exploited and forced into repeated “pleasure marriages.” “When a girl starts, she’s destroyed,” one such girl, who is now 16, tells FRONTLINE. “Her life ends the first day she takes this road.” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/iraqs-secret-sex-trade/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tune-in_New&utm_content=kids_caught_in_the_crackdown
Movie: Half the Sky Netflix, PBS
Movie: The Sound Of Freedom. includes topics of sexual assault, trafficking and kidnapping.
Movie, on Netflix, The Luckiest Girl Alive, about a school shooting and sexual assault.
AI generated child pornography fuels child sex exploitation industry. (articles) One of the top searches on porn websites is teen. This shows how everyday minors are exploited and sexualized. In another article it talked about how people are using AI to produce child pornography which is highly illegal in so many ways. A podcaster that talks about AI and deep fakes is Rotten Mango. She also discusses different true crime cases.
Murdered: Annamarie Chochrane Nintala podcacast, by Crime Junkie domestic violence within the LGBTQ community.
Trafficked included in Prime, It is estimated that 30,000 people die each year from - Abuse, Disease, Torture, and Neglect while being trafficked for sex - This lucky young girl escaped her inevitable demise. 18 min.
Taken, now available in 3 parts. Taken 1 is about a teen who is trafficked and her father attempts to track down her traffickers. While entertaining, it does not accurately depict what most human sex trafficking is like. Available on Hulu, Apple, and Prime
Domestic Sex Trafficking - A Survivor's Perspective | Karly Church | TEDxOshawaED https://youtu.be/nh1emIVHy8g Excellent TED talk explaining how it happens -Eubank recommends
I was sex trafficked for years. Brothels are hidden in plain sight. | Casandra Diamond | TEDxToronto https://youtu.be/Rg6xCRemYw4 focus on Massage parlors
The Long Night= sex trafficking in Seattle Amazon Video
Movie: I Am Jane Doe= sexual assault survivors on Netflix
Documentary: IN PLAIN SIGHT: Stories of Hope and Freedom is a feature-length documentary focused on six modern-day abolitionists as they fight sex trafficking across America. Through engaging interviews with numerous victims of sex trafficking, http://www.inplainsightfilm.com/#sthash.wHiP8MLI.dpbs available on Amazon Prime"I watched the documentary, 'In Plain Sight: Stories of Hope and Freedom'. It was a very informative and inspiring film created by Natalie Grant as a project to further communicate to the public the severity of sex trafficking, and the truth that it happens 'in your backyard'. The documentary shares the life stories of many women that were brutally abused and crushed under the bondage of sex slavery, and how programs created specifically for these women allowed them to find redemption through a restorative healing house with other survivors. Some children are trafficked and filmed for pornography at the extremely young age of three, and the documentary managed to highlight domestic minor sex trafficking as well as the even higher number of women being sold for sex." ~Shea Hale
Hot Girls Wanted, movie on Netflix, about the porn industry. To go with Sex Trafficking. Interesting facts, “Teen” is the number one searched term in porn. And Twitter doesn’t sensor porn.
Vice episode : Youtube Watch the video Campus Cover Up, 15 min Evolution of a Plague | Campus Coverup (VICE on HBO: Season 3, Episode 11) https://youtu.be/yZilxpf80N0?t=927
Believe Me: The abduction of Lisa McVey movie
Hunting Ground movie on Amazon Prime for (I have shown in class) about campus sexual assault 1 hr 44V
Read NYT article, about Puff Diddy being sued by singer Cassie for allegedly raping, abusing, controlling and traffiking her for years.
Weinstein FRONTLINE investigates how Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women over four decades. With allegations going back to Weinstein’s early years, the film examines the elaborate ways he and those around him tried to silence his accusers. 54 min https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/weinstein/
No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story Parsons, a 15 year old student from Nova Scotia, was raped by 4 school boys while drunk at a sleepover. A photo of her rape soon began circulating online. Through the eyes of her parents, this 48 minute film re-examines these alarming events, which ultimately led to Rehtaeh's suicide. A shocking testament to police indifference, the stigma of sexual assault and the effects of cyber bullying. Included with Amazon Prime
The Invisible War is a 2012 documentary about sexual assault in the United States military. At the Sundance Film Festival, it received the U.S. Documentary Audience Award. The film has been lauded by advocates, lawmakers, and journalists for its influence on government policies to reduce the prevalence of rape in the armed forces . (On Amazon Prime video)
Private Violence explores a simple, but deeply disturbing fact of life: the most dangerous place for a woman is her own home. Every day in the US, at least four women are murdered by abusive (and often, ex) partners. The knee-jerk response is to ask: 'why doesn't she just leave?'. (Included with Amazon Prime, 1hr17min )
Maid- on Netflix a mini-series, Single mother Alex turns to housecleaning to make ends meet as she escapes an abusive relationship and overcomes homelessness to create a better life for her daughter, recommended by Ruby, Emma and Ms Eubank.
Violence against women—it's a men's issue: Jackson Katz at TEDxFiDiWomen 19 min. https://youtu.be/KTvSfeCRxe8 recommended by Shoshanna from DVSAS
Podcast called Murdered: Annamarie Cochrane Rintala about domestic violence and murder in an LGBTQ relationship with forensics, several trials in the Criminal Justice System, Student Hazel says, "I found it super interesting and I would definitely recommend."
Changing the Conversation Around Sexual Violence TED talk by Keith Edward (Speaker who came to SHS 2 years ago) 12 min, Recommend by Meghan Lever
Surviving R. Kelly on Netflix, sex traffiking charges against pop-star R. Kelly (convicted of all 4 charges and racketeering )
“Catching Johns”, TIME article http://time.com/sex-buyers-why-cops-across-the-u-s-target-men-who-buy-prostitutes/
Sex Trafficking in America Frontline special https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/sex-trafficking-in-america/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sex_trafficking_film or on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grOmOCcdpAA
Trafficked in America FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley tell the inside story of Guatemalan teens who were forced to work against their will on an Ohio egg farm in 2014. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trafficked-in-america/
Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life In 'The Game’ Part 1 https://www.npr.org/2010/12/06/131757019/youth-radio-trafficked-teen-girls-describe-life-in-the-game 12 min and Arresting Youth In Sex Trafficking Raises Debate Part 2 https://www.npr.org/2010/12/07/131757175/arresting-youth-in-sex-trafficking-raises-debate Deals with the $ and crime part of it 9 min, podcasts. Do both, together for credit.
Entire KUOW resources, including the new law debate, 15 min http://archive.kuow.org/term/prostitution
Unbelievable — The Power of Police Work. This limited series from Netflix is based (really closely: go back and read it) on a Pulitzer Prize-winning ProPublica article telling the story of a teenager who was raped, not believed and charged with false reporting … before two diligent cops in another state caught the serial rapist who’d attacked her years earlier. The show, packed with powerhouse but underappreciated actresses, is an extraordinary document of how police work can go horribly wrong (or be done right). The script is unflinching but not unkind even to the people in the story who make mistakes. Watch it — but maybe set aside a day when you can watch all of it, because you’re not going to want to stop. Based on Marie from Lynwood, WA. I watched and really liked it & recommend for our class- perfect blend of Criminology topics (sexual assualt, police work and the legal system)~Ms. Eubank
Here in WA State we have a couple of amazing outreach workers who are finding children being sex trafficked and helping to rescue them. One of these people is Norene Roberts, Coordinator of the Children's Justice Center who is Ms. King's cousin. Here is her podcast. Choose any to listen to.
Norene presented to our class and shared this video series, The Life Story. Choose any to watch for 30 minutes for a make up.
watch episode Season 6 episode 24 of Criminal Minds that’s about human trafficking and summarize it.
watch "The Traffickers" Episode 7 on sex trafficking, "the girl in the window", for credit. available Amazon Prime
Prostitute interview 32 min interview with a prostitute, Exotic gives insight into the "life" and what it is like to survive
Domestic Violence story The Case of Jon Koppenhaver YouTube recommended by Ryan
Police sting ring in LA 54 min Prime
The Girl Who Escaped, based on a true story of the kidnaping, assaults and escape of Kara Robinson. On Hulu, recommended by Laura.
The Girl Next Door story of a survivor 26 min Amazon, for rent
Inside the Child Sex Trade Indonesia child sex trafficked 36 min, free on Prime
Missing Women of Mexico in Juarez, connecting organized crime, gangs, cartels, corruption in the justice system and human trafficking 1:30 Free on Prime
Stopping Traffic, internationally (all forms) 1 hr 19 min, free on Prime
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Unit 3: Sex Trafficking, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Chronicles the cultural, political, and legal battles against sexual harassment over the last fifty years in America. Profiles notable figures from the early cases of Paulette Barnes and Mechelle Vinson, Monica Lewinsky, and the modern #MeToo movement, and examines the various lawsuits and legislation that has attempted to address toxic sexual harassment in the workplace.
Examines human trafficking today, including the sale of body organs, babies, and young girls for sex. Features victims' stories, facts and figures, calls for action, color photographs, and sources of further information.
Presents a collection of articles discussing what sexual consent means, how it is handled on college campuses, possible solutions, and notable cases. Includes text-related questions, a glossary, and photographs.
Things We Haven't Said' is a . . . collection of poems, essays, letters, vignettes and interviews written by a diverse group of . . . adults who survived sexual violence as children and adolescents. Structured to incorporate creative writing to engage the reader and informative interviews to dig for context, this anthology is a . . . resource for hope, grit and honest conversation that will help teens tackle the topic of sexual violence, upend stigma and maintain hope for a better future
Presents a collection of essays highlighting the #MeToo movement. Topics range from the Harvey Weinstein case bringing the movement into the spot light to criticisms of the movement. Includes text-related questions, a glossary, and photographs.
Examines issues related to sexual assault in the United States. Explores the concept of rape culture from a variety of perspectives, looking at cases involving victims across races and genders while exploring such concepts as restorative justice and the #MeToo movement. Attempts to dismantle myths and highlights current legislation surrounding Title IX and age-of-consent laws.
Recounts the experiences of three young women from different parts of the world who escaped sexual slavery and are helping others still living in slavery.
Kiran leaves her home in Punjab for a new start in Canada after a sexual assault leaves her pregnant. But overstaying her visa and living undocumented brings its own perils for bother her and her daughter, Sahaara. Sahaara would do anything to protect her mother. When she learns the truth about Kiran's past, she feels compelled to seek justice -- even if it means challenging a powerful and dangerous man.
Unit 4: Organized Crime and Gangs
Yes, you can watch "The Godfather" for two make-ups.
"I just started watching criminal minds, I would recommend it in general. Episode S1E2 is still the best I have seen so far, pretty clever plot and really interesting as gives good insight to why people commit crime." ~RUSSELL BOWER
Listen to the pod-cast "The Runaways" about teen murders on Long Island and the MS-13 gang https://www.thisamericanlife.org/657/the-runaways here is the transcript https://www.thisamericanlife.org/657/transcript
THE GANG CRACKDOWN Some 25 dead bodies have been found on Long Island since 2016, all linked to the violent gang MS-13. Numerous immigrant teens are missing. As law enforcement tries to stop the gang, FRONTLINE goes inside the crackdown — investigating how the slew of gruesome killings led to many immigrant teens being accused of gang affiliation and unlawfully detained. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-gang-crackdown/
20-30 minute interviews with gang members on YOUTUBE by SoftWhiteUnderbelly
Cartel Land documentary (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) on Mexican drug Cartel and the local reactions The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2016.
10 min Vox video on Drugs/White Collar/Gangs El Chapo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v394vC23HW0 "Snake Eyes"
Mafia/Mob Boss- Michael Franzese YouTube interview of a man still working with the mob
Colors movie 1980
Boys 'n Hood movie
A&E Gangs miniseries rec (sort of Nelson)
The Irish Man movie about the mafia on Netflix for 2 makeups
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An anthology of articles on crimes and violent acts committed by juveniles in the United States, discussing whether or not juveniles should be tried as adults, gang activities, and the causes of juvenile crime.
Discusses what factors can put teenagers at risk for suicide, teen pregnancy, gang violence, drugs, and other dangers.
Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
Sixteen-year-old Rocky lives in Seoul and expects to take over his father's violent gang, Three Star Pa, one day. In the meantime he runs a high school gang and cruelly bullies other students there. But after catching his father in a lie, he starts digging for the truth about his mother who disappeared years ago and uncover information about his father that makes him reconsider his life.
Tells the true story of an eleven-year-old gang member from Chicago who shoots a girl and is then shot by members of his own gang.
If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison. Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he's a father. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it's not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child.
When seventeen year old Diego finds his brother, Ernesto, badly beaten and unable to finish a drug run with a gang, he must make a difficult decision, one that could put his life, as well as his family, in danger.
Serial Killers Movies and ideas
'An American Summer' Looks At How Gun Violence 'Gets In People's Bones' https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700341774/american-summer-looks-at-how-gun-violence-gets-in-people-s-bones
Listen to your choice of stories about murders on this podcast My Favorite Murder https://myfavoritemurder.com/episodes
Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers https://murderpedia.org/ research source on killers
Snap: on killer Dennis Raider, The BTK (bind, torture, kill) killer. Link is to 12 min A&E episode on how they found and captured him. There is also a SNAP episode
Making a Murderer on Netflix (2 seasons) about Steven Avery The show tells the story of Steven Avery, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who served 18 years in prison for the wrongful conviction of sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen. He was later charged in 2005, and convicted in 2007, for the murder of Teresa Halbach.
Consider watching the Many Faces of Billy Mulligan on Netflix (Killer & rapist in Bellingham WA)
Article about Jeffrey Dahmer's 13th victim
Podcast about the story of Penny Beernsten, (see above) Reasonable Doubt https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/278180-reasonable-doubt 31 minutes
I watched Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime: The Cleveland Torso Killer on Youtube. The Cleveland Torso Killer is a serial killer that in total killed and dismembered 13 people near Kingsbury run, the case most likely remains unsolved due to improper actions taken by the detective heading the case. It's pretty good for if you want a short video and enjoy some humor aspects with true crime.~ Jay Nguyen *there are a lot of Buzzfeed episodes to choose from!
Bailey Sarian, Murder, Mystery and Makeup podcast
Enola Homes series available on Netflix, "Enola Homes" , which follows the story of Sherlock Homes's younger sister.
The movie, "A Girl Who Escaped" follows the story of Kara Robinson as she survives an abduction. It's available on "The Girl Who Escaped" (HULU) and "The Girl Who Escaped" (AMAZON PRIME).
"True Detective" Season 1 is available on AMAZON PRIME, HBO MAX, HULU and APPLE TV. Click the link and it will take directly to the show!
YouTuber that covers both the Manson family and the Zodiac killer (I'll link the videos below) that I think we should watch instead of the movie. Besides maybe a few swear words, the YouTuber is clean, and she talks a lot about the victims and doesn't 'glamorize' the killers. There's a lot of information in her videos and they are fascinating to watch!
Zodiac Killer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpyzbyrV9U
The Zodiac Killer “Identified”?! Who is Gary Poste?
Manson Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5iakUFB5co
THE BIZARRE STORY OF CHARLES MANSON
Mandy Stavik: The Case No One Could Forget Mandy was a local college freshman who was raped and murdered in the 30 years ago. Her murder was unsolved until DNA evidence caught the killer here locally a couple of years ago. Our Prosecutors office discussed the case with SHS when they were prosecuting it. 40 min video on Youtube
Citizen X- movie about a Soviet (Russian) Serial Killer who got away with killing kids because Russian authorities wouldn't believe there could be crime in the Communist society. Really good!- in Eubank's opinion
There is another newer movie about the Russian Serial Killer, "Child 44", available on Youtube, Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. "Child 44" (Amazon Prime), "Child 44" (Youtube), "Child 44" (Apple TV).
Podcast recommended by Lowa, https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/category/murdered/ or try https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/category/serial-killer/
The Death of Gianni Versace, a film done by Dateline. Gianni Versace was a famous Italian fashion designer in the 1990s. https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/full-episode-the-death-of-gianni-versace-1049283139647 recommended by Neena
The Night Stalker- 4 part True Crime Series on NETFLIX, about the hunt for Richard Ramirez
Malvo/Muhammed 45 min documentary on YouTube (I watched this) “The DC Sniper Documentary” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GznE9RyEVHs&t=0s&list=PLdtS10ax7vTklur_mrHSpuxGzYk1tQFa5&index=17
DC Snipers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_zbH0xHkc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3b3S91qOfA
New movie on the DC snipers, Blue Caprice, trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhhQ-Kvl7E8&ab_channel=MovieclipsTrailers available on Prime
Kenneth Biannci Serial Killer 41 min Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X_vmB11uEQ&t=0s&list=PLdtS10ax7vTklur_mrHSpuxGzYk1tQFa5&index=18
Hillside Strangler YouTube Hillside Strangler (2004) movie, rated R
mini series, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” about the Golden State Killer
Criminal Minds S5: E23 “Our Darkest Hour” and S6: E1 “Longest Night” (part 1 and part 2) This episode is based on the Golden State Killer. Great 2 episodes connects to ACES. 100% recommend, by Leah S
Ted Bundy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVv_lvaGYWE, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOY7V8jJUPI
Ted Bundy on Netflix "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile", 2019 American biographical crime thriller film, told from the point of view of serial killer Ted Bundy's former girlfriend Liz, also Conversations with a Serial killer
Gary Ridgeway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQfjbq5jZoM
Wayne Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiI4xaUTcO0&list=PLbag81Gljy94cdRNQyT3_LXOCeA8sWtnA
Robert Hansen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1UQdqhsVzk THE FROZEN GROUND Official Trailer (2013) - Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack
Robert Hansen – Starts at about 18:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRkcQD6K6A
Frozen Ground The film focuses on serial killer, Robert Hansen; the man who brutally murdered between 17 and 21 young women during the late 70's and early 80's in Alaska. (on Netflix)
Casanova Killer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNyMhd0owzw&list=PL22E289524F2305E9
Jeffery Dhalmer The Monster Within, Slience of the Lambs (fictional but based on Dhamer), My Friend Dhalmer on Netflix, about Dhalmer's childhood
John Wayne Gacy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ9jFykVU8
John Wayne Gacy - https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-serial-killer-podcast/episode/john-wayne-gacy-48059245
Wayne Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRkcQD6K6A
Zodiac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxP-esXB5g trailer for full movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6q_MfcDEEE (on Netflix)
Let’s be clear: The Zodiac killer has never been identified. But a case has been made (notably in The Most Dangerous Animal of All, which is now a TV series) that the killer was a guy named Earl Van Best, Jr. This book ,The End of the Zodiac Mystery — A Killer’s Legacy, aims to close the case forever with comparisons of Van Best’s handwriting to the killer's, all facilitated by author and legal document expert Michael Wakshull.
Most Evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Evil is a serial on killer on the Discovery Channel.
Mindhunters Season 1 & 2 on Netflix, a student last semester recommended "my favorite murder" episode
Edmund Kemper: (from Mindhunters Netflix)
Charles Manson movie, "Charile Says" https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=b8GzSmu2AtQ&feature=emb_logo trailer- watch movie for credit
Aileen Wuornos: (female killer- movie Monster) and 60 minutes episode (14 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_NzXdJWCco&ab_channel=60MinutesAustralia and in podcast https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com/2017/07/24/aileen-wournos/
Jack the Ripper book, The Five: The Untold Lives of Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, for Best History & Biography or watch British series, Ripper Street
Jack the Ripper podcast, Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper, is available on Spotify and is by Pushkin Industries.
Why They Kill: Watch Why They Kill | Prime Video (amazon.com) Based on the critically acclaimed book by the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Richard Rhodes, Why They Kill is a startling exploration into the 4-stage violentization process developed by the renowned criminologist, Lonnie H. Athens, D.Crim. to explain how violent criminals are created and why violent acts are committed.
Crazy, Not Insane follows Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who has dedicated her career to studying murderers and seeking answers as to why people kill. The film explores her lifelong attempts to look beyond the grisly details of homicides and into the hearts and minds of the killers themselves. Watch Crazy, Not Insane (HBO) - Stream Movies | HBO Max
I loved listening to Paper Ghosts, podcast it kept me captivated with the story the whole way through. I found it super interesting how the cases were so deeply intertwined, and I was shocked at the fact that the police had not looked into them more thoroughly or given the families any help/closure. I think this podcast is really well written and I liked how it incorporated interviews with tons of people involved in the case, along with detailed accounts of how everything happened in order, so it feels like you're following the cases in real time while listening. These girls stories are so sad, and it was really heartbreaking to hear their family members talk about them and how their disappearances effected their lives. -from Opal
Doctor Death podcast about Christopher Dunn who would paralyze and sometimes kill his patients. Https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2RyLWRlYXRoLXMy/episode/Z2lkOi8vYXJ0MTktZXBpc29kZS1sb2NhdG9yL1YwL1VIR0FjSDlTU0UtZkREMHlaZ2ZkMnF1VHdySlNHVXI2Z1VDWVVySUxtaEU?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwinvd2p-dLyAhVS3p4KHfJBCtkQjrkEegQIAhAF&ep=6
The Good Nurse, Charles Cullen would put saline into his patients and kill them, moving from hospital to hospital before being caught. Movie on NETFLIX
Time Suck Dan Cummins episodes usually have a timeline of the person's life from birth to death Timesuck with Dan Cummins on Apple Podcasts
podcast with https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-serial-killer-podcast TSK is the podcast dedicated to exploring the serial killer phenomenon. Who the killers were, what they did and how. The show makes a significant effort into exploring the serial killers' background, especially their childhood and youth. It goes into detail in the killers' development and describes the murders in graphic detail to give the listener a truthful understanding of who these killers really were and the extent of their criminal behavior. The show is produced and hosted by Thomas Wiborg-Thune. He is a 37-year-old Norwegian living in the Norwegian capital city of Oslo. The show airs every week and currently has in excess of 17 million downloads. Scroll the episodes to find a particular killer.
Cody Brock was a Bellingham murder case that our prosecutor's worked on https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article231991917.html, https://kpug1170.com/news/007700-court-sentences-brock-for-marine-drive-murder/
Darren Dee O’Neall- Deputy Hindman has him in jail right now, Serial killer Top 10 FBI wanted list, from Bellingham
https://www.kiro7.com/news/north-sound-news/man-killed-woman-hurt-in-shooting-near-bellingham/912672298/
Un(re)soloved podcast on 150 Civil Rights era murders
Trial of Gabriel Fernandez on Netflix
Jamie Biendl murder in Monroe Washington. https://www.seattletimes.com
"Prison Brides" is a show about several women who have found love while using penpal to communicate with prison inmates. It's currently available on Hulu for free with subscription.
Serial Killers Movies and ideas
Murder Mountain — True Crime on a Pot Farm.
Humboldt County was known as a haven for pot smokers long before states started legalizing marijuana left and right, but this series delves into the industry’s dark underbelly. This is one for true crime fans as it follows the disappearance of a young weed farmer.
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EXTRAS
Deviance and Social Control YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90flRr7T7As 28 minutes
Quizlet https://quizlet.com/315974270/pbs-deviance-social-control-flash-cards/
Movie: The Corporation (on white collar-crime)
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Unit 5: Serial Killers
Tells the true story of the Zodiac Killer, who terrorizes the area near San Francisco in the late 1960s and discusses how he was finally captured.
Details the preparations for and attractions of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago including information on the man who ran the World Fair Hotel, a building he used to lure young women to their deaths.
A reconstruction of the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers of the Clutter family.
Provides an account of the shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, focusing on the teenage killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, drawing from interviews, police files, psychological studies, and writings and tapes by the boys to look at the signs they left that disaster was looming.
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EXTRAS
Deviance and Social Control YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90flRr7T7As 28 minutes
Quizlet https://quizlet.com/315974270/pbs-deviance-social-control-flash-cards/
Movie: The Corporation (on white collar-crime)
The Business of Drugs: Netflix
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Describes how John Taliaferro Thompson set out to invent a fast-firing, easy-to-carry submachine gun for the U.S. military but instead empowered a generation of outlaws with a weapon that became an icon of violence. Traces the history of the weapon, including its origins, uses over the years, and current controversies.