K.Ryan Proctor is a criminologist, researcher and an author, who focuses on developing a transdisciplinary criminology by integrating biological, psychological, and sociological insights.
He earned his degrees in sociology from the University of Washington and the University of California at Riverside and has engaged in diverse research on health, inequality, and criminology.
He is an associate professor at Avila University and published a book on Mechanistic Criminology in 2019.
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Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:15 What is crime?
00:01:54 What is a deviant action?
00:02:25 Hunter gathering society, crime, morality and norms
00:03:17 Why certain actions are considered morally bad?
00:05:08 Why alcohol is considered bad in certain cultures?
00:08:35 Difference between morals and norms?
00:10:30 Do animals have morals?
00:11:56 Can a bad moral action, get you criminal charge
00:13:46 Why certain humans choose to do a criminal act?
00:15:40 Why may not have freewill
00:17:41 Social Control theory
00:18:44 Learning theory
00:19:28 How society influences an individual to commit crime
00:21:57 How society influences law and regulations
00:23:33 Race and crime
00:26:04 Judging people based on their appearance
00:32:12 Business world and judgment based on appearance
00:35:12 Intuition and evolution
00:36:58 Intuition to detect a bad person
00:38:11 Ryan's approach to studying crime
00:44:12 Biggest challenges criminologists facing today
00:47:23 Can we predict a criminal baby
00:49:11 Are morals human construct
00:50:39 Why there's no objective wrong or right
00:52:52 Would we consider present good morals bad in the future?
00:54:47 How governments prevent crime from happening
00:58:17 Effective ways to prevent crime
01:00:13 Reason why Immigrants commit crimes
01:01:46 Criminal mafia having trouble recruiting people
01:02:12 How lack of money breeds crime
01:04:08 Solution to lack of money
01:05:33 Gangs and violence
01:07:37 How citizens & society can help reduce crime
01:08:52 Why certain countries have lower crime rate
01:10:35 Example of a country dealing with immigration and crime successfully
01:12:23 How weather may affect crime rates
01:13:18 How video games reduced crime
01:17:12 Routine activities theory
01:18:47 Future of criminilogy
01:21:18 Why criminology discipline sticking to policy side
01:24:09 How sociologists are amazing at logically arguing
01:25:27 End
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