RJA#10b) Arguement

Thesis statement: Criminal behavior is most endured by the enviornment (nurture) one is tainted to as a child.

Arguement: That nurture plays a bigger part in determining criminal behavior than nature does.

A) Without a bad enviornment one would not become such a violent person.
B) Criminals even believe if they were to grow up in a better enviornment they wouldnt have so much anger or commit criminal behaviors.
C) Nature/Genes can shape somewhat of who you are but can't explain why you do the things you do, because it is based on what you see and how you live life that determined the choices you make. Not your genes.

RJA#10a)Thesis Statement

Research Question: Is criminal behavior endured more by nature/hereditary or nurture/enviornment?

Thesis Statement: Criminal behavior is most endured by the nurture one is tainted to as a child.

Internet Research Project

The internet research tool I used was CUIL I found it to be very useful. Cuil uses 3x as many information as Google which is alot. Cuil searches results are based on their content and relevance to the keywords or phrases that you put in. This is a good tool because it is not just based on its popularity and you may find information you can use that someone else has not used. It also seperetes different ideas from you and uses images to each of the websites to help you indentify different information. It also uses roll-over defintions that may help you understand other keywords and defintions that may relate to your topic. Also when you type in a keyword you can start your search my tabs because some words have many different meanings such as jaguar, you may mean the car, the animal or a certain term so it gives you different tabs so that you can find exactly what your looking for. It also has blogs that you can apply for and has information from different websites such ask google and yahoo. Some weaknesses is that it also uses wikipedia which isnt very relevant and gives you alot of information such as google does and its hard to look at all of them. All in all I think Cuil is a great source to use and I highly recommond it!

RJA#8c) Multimedia

The resource tool I used was blinxx.com I found a couple of good videos that related to my topic. Some keywords I used were criminal behavior, bad enviornment, pyschology criminal behavior. The number of hits I got were 606 and 793. The relevance of these videos would be a 3 to a 4. Some videos were really good and others werent. The date I searched these videos would be October 19th, 2009. Below are some videos I found that related to my topic.

http://www.blinkx.com/videos/criminal%2Bbehavior/21

http://www.blinkx.com/video/is-there-a-criminal-gene/3-OzIkcOgkFz47b9K5GNTQ

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2008/07/18/seg.gupta.violent.genes.cnn

RJA#8b) Social Media

The social media research tool I used was addictomatic some key words I used were criminal behavior, enviornment, genes, and hereditary. The day I searched it was October 19th, 2009. The number of hits I found were about 7 to 8 per website listed such as google, yahoo, wikipedia, and so on. The relevance of hits would be about a 3 or 4 I found some good blogs that could help me but not that many.

Another social media tool I used was evri the keywords I used were criminal behavior, crimes, psychological crimes, and enviornment. The day I searched it was October 19th, 2009. The number of hits I found was 15 pages with about 10 news articles and blogs per page. The relevance of hits were about a 3 nothing really that I could use in my paper to help it.

RJA#8a) Websites

Resource searched or tool used: Ask.com
Keywords used: criminal behavior
Search strategies used : headlines that went with my topic the most such as genes criminal behavior and influences.
Date of search: October 13th, 2009
Number of hits: 2,280,000
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): Great! 5 all information was useful and I got information that I didn't know before.

This article was about how criminal behavior can and should be considered because of biological influences.



Resource searched or tool used: GigaBlast
Keywords used: biological influences on criminal behavior
Search strategies used: started from the top of the list There wasn't very much websites listed so I used the most relevant one that was related to my topic which was biolgical influences on criminal behavior from the website ww.forensicnetbase.com
Date of search: October 13th, 2009
Number of hits: 585 not very many!
Relevance of hits: Only around 3 or 4

This was also an article that was about how biolgoical influences influenced criminal behavior.


Resource searched or tool used: Turbo 10
Keywords used: criminal behavior nature and nurture
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) : Looked for websites I am most familiar with.
Date of search: October 13th, 2009
Number of hits: Ten pages
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 3

RJA#7c) Field Research Plan

For my field research plan I have decided to do a random survey to people of all ages and backrounds. As well as interview psychology teachers and people who have been to jail for doing a criminal act. I will be beginning this at the end of this week. To do this I will write a letter to a person who has been in jail asking quetions such as:

1. Did you have a bad childhood?
2. Were your parents abusive?
3. Explain what kind of enviornment you lived in.
4. Do you believe your childhood or the enviornment you lived in had anything to do with you commiting your criminal act?
5. Do you think you are a different person from when you were younger to now?


Some quetions I may ask a psychology teacher are:

1. Why do you believe people do crimes?
2. Understanding the psychology part where do you think criminal behavior falls in Nature or Nurture most?
3. Do you think that if you live in a good enviornment that you can still grow up to be a criminal. Explain yes or no.
4. Do you think people can change from being a bad criminal into a good person?
5. Based on certain experiences would you say everybody has a criminal part in them? why or why not?


Some survey queitions I would have are:

1.Define in your own words what is a bad enviornment and what is a good enviornment to grow up in?
2. Do you believe our society plays a role in teaching young kids criminal behavior.
3. Why do you think people commit crimes?
4. Where do you think criminal behaviors are learned from?
5. Do you think peolpe are taught criminal behavior or carry it genetically?