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?

RJA#7b) Internet Research Tool Test

The resource I searched was CUIL.com the search strategies that can be used in Cuil.com are basic keywords, phrases, or sentences, some keywords I used were Nature, nurture, envionment, hereditary, criminal, behavior, and pyschology. Cuil is alot like other resources it gives you list of different websites that fit your keywords or phrases that you put in the search box, that have articles or certain subjects on a certain site. Like others Cuil gives you hundreds and thousands of results (hits) to look from. The date of my search was October 7th, 2009. Based on the internet information I recieved from Cuil I would rate this resource tool a 4 to a 5 because the information given to me was very helpful here were some website pages with information related to my topic that I found.

http://genealogy.about.com/cs/geneticgenealogy/a/nature_nurture_2.htm


http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/jones.html

http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Psychology-and-mental-health/Addiction-risk-and-aggressive-criminal-behavior-in-adolescence-influence-of-family-school-and-peers.html

RJA#7a) Internet Research Tools

The internet research tools I use are mostly Google, Yahoo, and Aol. These are my favorite internet research places because they provide alot of information and these are the sites I know most about because they are very popular. I have an Aol and Yahoo account and I use both of them regulary. Some things I do not like about Google and Yahoo is that it gives you hundreds and hundreds of pages of a particular item it doesn't narrow them down to much. It also goes by the websites that are visited most often which is not a good thing because there could be information on other websites that can be very useful. But other than that these are really good internet research tools that help me almost always find what I'm looking for.

RJA#6c) Protopage

http://www.protopage.com/jazminaragon915

RJA#6b) Search Strings

+criminal-law+behavior+psychology

+criminal+hereditary-parents

+criminal+enviornment-habitat

+criminal+behavior+thoughts+feelings

Criminal and behavior

Criminal or behavior and psychology


Psychology and behavior and criminal actions and enviornment



REVISIONS


Jane Park said:

Your search strings look good, but I think in the second one you dont have to include parents. I also think you should come up with some search strings that use a minus sign so that you can filter out a bunch of things that aren't helpful to you. Overall it looks good though.

September 17, 2009 11:32 AM

RJA #5c) Search String Check

http://janeparksblizog.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4b-writing-search-strings.html#comment-form



http://dominiqueeng1020blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4b-writing-search-strings.html#comment-form

RJA #5a) Finding Reference Articles

I found my first article on Suite101.com on September 16th, 2009: And my keywords were criminal behavior

PAGES 1 & 2

This article was very helpful for me it gave me information on how criminal behavior can be considered nature and nurture. It described how the brain works and how criminal behavior is effected on how the brain is thinking. Which I thought was very useful information and a good point. This article also talked about how living in a certain enviornment can shape a persons feelings and thoughts, and lead them into doing certain actions.

RESOURCES: Yongue, Judith S. (1999). Psychopathology and Violent Crime. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 28, 2145.

Katz, Janet. & Marsh Frank H. (1985). Biology, Crime and Ethics: A Study of Biological Explanations for Criminal Behavior. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Company.
Brain Explorer. (2001) Lundbeck Institute, Denmark Retrieved on March 23, 2002 from http://www.luinst.org/brainexplorer/inde...

Child and Adolescent Violence Research at the NIMH. (2000). National Institute of Mental Health, Retrieved on March 23, 2002 from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/violenc...

The World of Abnormal Psychology: Looking at Abnormal Behavior. (1992) Volume 1., The Annenberg/CPB collection

RJA #4c) Checking Research Quetions

http://narina86.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question.html#comment-form



http://barbaraeng1020blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question_07.html#comment-form

RJA #4b) Writing Search Strings

SEARCH ENGINE MATH & BOOLEAN

Criminal+behavior+environment

criminal+behavior+hereditary+parents+genes

criminal+actions+learn+enviornment




Crime*

AND

Behave* actions


Environment

AND

Crime*


Crime

And

Hereditary

RJA #4a) Generating Key Words

IS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR EFFECTED BY GENES A PERSON INHERITED OR AN ENVIRONMENT A PERSON IS SURROUNDED BY?



FO: crime, crimes, criminally,criminality,
behave, behaves, behavioral,
genetic, genetically, genetics, genesis, genitive
environmental, environment's,

RE: law, judicial, prison,
pyschology, rules, standards, expectations,
DNA, RNA,
bad enviornments vs. good enviornments, child abuse,


ST: caught, corrupt, crooked, wicked, dirty, senseless, wrong, convict, gangster,
act, action, address, attitude, expression, performance, presence,
RNA, chromosone, genetic code, hereditary, traits,
backround, habitat, surroundings, terriotory, turf,


LOG: bad>>law>>crime>>criminal>>murder>>1st degree murder>>
act>>personality>>rules>>behave>>actions>>
science>>herediatary>>genes>>
places>>enviornment>>home>>

RJA #3c) Devolping Research Quetion

Is Criminal behavior passed on through genes from a parent?

Is criminal behavior effected by nurture or nature?

Does drug abuse affect a person into commiting a criminal act?

RJA #3b) Narrowing Research Topic

While going through and seeing the different issues nature vs. nurture has a role in I decided that I want to narrow my topic into choosing that how criminal behavior has more to do with nature vs. nurture. Then I realized that was still broad and can be narrowed down a little bit more I decided I should pick what type of criminal behavior such as seriol killer, child malestation, drug abuse, or even theft. So I know I have to narrow it down to one of them and I was thinking about the child malestation because so many people dont understand why child malesters feel the way they do and it would be a great way to debate whether it is hereditary or enviornmental. It could play a role in both but it will be my job to figure which side is more effective.

RJA #3a) Exploring Research Topic

While exploring my research topic of where nature vs nurture plays a role in different areas such as alcoholism and criminal behavior. I found that there are alot of traits that are hereditary that have been proven. I also found out that physical traits are hereditary. I also found out that both play a role in human devolpment but some believe nature plays more of a role than nurture and vis versa. I learned that personality mostly comes from the enviornment you are raised up in and that intellgience is hereditary and that if your parents are smart you are more than likely to become smart too. Some place I looked at was about.com I also found out that being addicted to alcohol could be hereditary because some peoples stigma is strong enough where a pereson could indure the alcohol into there system. I also found that criminal behavior can be hereditary because if a person is angry the genes can pass on and the baby could feel angry when they are born and go on as they grow up. But criminal behavior can also be enviornmental because if a person is grown up in a violent enviornment they are most likely to become violent themselves. i found this information on suite101.com.

RJA #2c) Delcious Account

http://delicious.com/JazzyWazzy0915

RJA #2a) Possible Topics

• Does Freud's clinical practice really help cure psychopathology.
• Nurture Vs. Nature, which one has to do more with devolpement.
• Did the Milgrim experiment calculate obideince.
• Is the double blind method a fair way to calculate data.
• Hiearchy of Needs, could those be changed.

RJA #1: Academic Interest

Psychology:

• Amount of Medicine given to patients under mental health conditions
• Different mental health procedures which ones are effective which one are not.
• Using the double blind method.
• Determining on mental illnesses.
• Does therapiatic classes or sessions really help a patient.

Nursing:

• Are finincial benifits good enough for patients
• Do patients get the medical help they need