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Criminal Behaviorology The Exploitation of Crime: Crimesploitation and the Media Misuse of Reality Crime Stories Paul Kaplan, PhD and Daniel La Chance, PhD, two experts on cultural criminology, have written on Crimesploitation, where reality programs create a kind of folk wisdom about crime, addictions and correctional work. The dangers of this kind of portrayal, the popularity of these shows and the possible hidden agenda in the development of such entertainment form the basis of this episode. I interview Paul Kaplan to discuss his work on crimesploitation, and cover the different forms of this intriguing phenomenon being broadcast on television programs and internet podcasts. Show Highlights: - What is crimesploitation and how can we distinguish it from other kinds of educational programs on crime, corrections and addiction? Is the nightly news an example? What about this podcast!? - The two likely target audiences of crimesploitation. - The irony of Neoliberalism and Law and Order Punitivism. - The “Addiction Industrial Complex.” - Does crimesploitation subtly justify police misconduct, aggressive law enforcement tactics and even vigilante justice? - How the program To Catch a Predator, a popular show nationwide, came to its own abrupt end in a case of “punitive burnout.” - How such voyeuristic broadcasts may promote an escape from social responsibilities in our modern world. - When discussing cases of the wrongly convicted, how the emphasis should be on more than just finding out who is innocent, but instead on the preservation of the rights of criminal defendants. - Death as a taboo topic and why it is a factor in our interest in the macabre. Crimesploitation article by Kaplan and La Chance (2017) https://oxfordre.com/criminology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264079-e-34 Dr. Kaplan’s page – San Diego University: https://spa.sdsu.edu/people/spa_profiles/paul-kaplan The Prison in Twelve Landscapes: https://www.prisonlandscapes.com/ Op Ed on the Addiction Industrial Complex: https://www.njspotlight.com/2017/05/17-05-23-op-ed-the-opioid-addiction-industrial-complex-america-s-dirty-secret/ Look up CrimBehav on Facebook: facebook.com/CrimBehav Criminal Behaviorology on Blogger. CB Podcast Sites: https://criminalbehaviorology.podomatic.com https://anchor.fm/criminalbehaviorology https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/criminal-behaviorology/id1441879795?mt=2&uo=4 https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83MzY4OWFjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz https://open.spotify.com/show/5VM7Sjv762u7nb91YWGczZ https://www.breaker.audio/criminal-behaviorology https://overcast.fm/itunes1441879795/criminal-behaviorology https://pca.st/Q38w https://radiopublic.com/criminal-behaviorology-GEv2AZ https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/criminal-behaviorology Please write a review on any of our podcast sites listed above. Questions, comments, and requests for transcripts to: criminalbehaviorology@gmail.com Thank you for listening.
Criminal Behaviorology
Night of the Shaping Dead: Zombie Behavior, Shaping, and Resurgence
Being as it is the Halloween season, we can have some fun, right? Dr. Kennon Lattal wrote two blogs for the Aubrey Daniels Institute about zombies from a behavior analytic perspective. Why not? Dr. Lattal is on sabbatical currently, but was gracious enough to respond to my email questions. Let’s suspend the “dead man rule” in behavior analysis (where we say that if a dead man can do it we do not accept it as an intervention, i.e., “stay in one place,” “don’t make any noise,” etc.) and instead apply an undead rule as we seek to understand how to deal with zombies through behavior analysis.
Show Highlights:
- Why is shaping as a concept so important, and is it misunderstood – or just NOT understood at all?
- What makes social relevance important and how do we determine what might be socially relevant in one instance or another?
- How does one go about deciding where to start in terms of shaping behavior and how fast one should proceed from one step to the next? Do you find people are frustrated in the success of shaping because, with zombies or people, the progress can be quite slow?
- What is resurgence, and how can it serve as an explanation for societal problems such as addiction or criminal recidivism?
- How can resurgence result in behavior generally seen as positive (unlike what we usually see out of zombies)?
Dr. Lattal’s page on West Virginia University:
https://psychology.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-directory/kennon-lattal
How to Shape a Zombie
https://www.aubreydaniels.com/blog/how-shape-zombie
Zombies and Resurgence: A Halloween Analysis
https://www.aubreydaniels.com/blog/zombies-and-resurgence-halloween-analysis
Article on Shaping (Ekerman, et al., 1980):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1332956/pdf/jeabehav00082-0006.pdf
Article on Resurgence in the Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis:
http://rmac-mx.org/category/vol-41-no-2-numero-monografico-2015/
Day of the Dead (1985)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
Zombie (1979)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080057/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
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Criminal Behaviorology
Pirates! Behavior Analysis and Maritime Crime from the Great Lakes to Modern Day Somalia
Timothy reads from two books on pirates in the great lakes as well as a Todd A. Ward article on piracy in the coastal waters of Somalia. Behavior analysts, rogues that we are, might have role in resolving piracy in the modern age.
Show Highlights:
- James Strang (“The King if Beaver Island”) and his pursuit of “Prophet,” as in his followers overtaking of the largest island in Lake Michigan. How Strang is viewed as a pirate by many, and why his rule over “St. James Island” led to his own violent end.
- “Dangerous” Dan Seavey. Lawman, brawler, poacher and the last of the Great Lakes pirates.
- Why piracy is an interesting subject matter in regards to criminology and behavior analysis. Once ubiquitous in the waterways, it is now localized to key parts of the world. What can this sea change in delinquency tell us about how crime originates?
- Todd A. Ward on Kantor’s Interbehaviorism in regards to piracy in Somalia.
- How a sociological problem could be ameliorated by psychological interventions. Communication networks in crisis situations are relevant to the threats ship crews face. What factors within the country itself are most relevant?
- Explicit, implicit and heuristic rules in regards to maritime crime and other problems.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day
Frederick Stonehouse’s Book “Pirates, Crooks and Killers: The Dark Side of the Great Lakes”
http://www.averycolorstudios.com/Books/Fred-Stonehouse.html
“Michigan Rogues, Desperadoes and Cut-throats” by Tom Powers
https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/2497
Todd A. Ward’s Article on Piracy:
https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/2497
Kantor’s Interbehaviorism:
https://kantor.weebly.com/
The First Barbary Wars (1801 – 1805)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
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Criminal Behaviorology
Preventing Suicide in the Military and Among Veterans
Kent Corso is a psychologist, behavior analyst and Air Force veteran. In his many writings and presentations he has provided valuable information on what is known, and what is not, about suicide among veterans and active-duty military. In this podcast we cover the problem of suicide in the military and how behavior analysis may have a role to play.
Show Highlights:
- Why the term “commit” in regards to suicide is loaded language with a very negative connotation. Saying “took his own life” or similar phrase is more sensitive to those close to the event.
- The fact that suicide, as a phenomenon, has never been known to reduce in the number of deaths per year, as long as it has been studied.
- The extensive amount of literature on suicide, and why much of it provides very limited actionable information regarding prevention.
- How suicide, like other severe behavior problems, can be understood as something shaped over time and our focus should be on all significant factors that precede it.
Xcelerate Innovations Website:
https://www.xcelerateinnovations.com/
Air Force Magazine August 2019 article on suicide:
ABAI Special Interest Groups:
https://www.abainternational.org/constituents/special-interests/special-interest-groups.aspx
ABAI SIG on Military and Veterans Affairs Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/791636850870934/
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Criminal Behaviorology
Title: Right Off the BAT: The Operant Conditioning Theory Regarding Domestic Violence
Dr. Marilyn Bonem is a professor at Eastern Michigan University. In 2008, she co-wrote a study on domestic violence using the Battering Assessment Tool (BAT). In this interview we discuss with Dr. Bonem the results of her study of batterers and how we should think of domestic violence in behavioral terms as opposed to placing the offenders in vague psychological categories.
Show Highlights:
- The intervention programs for domestic violence often used, including the Duluth and CBT models.
- Viewing domestic violence from a behavioral point of view. What are the advantages to treating domestic violence as an operant behavior?
- Dr. Bonem’s work on the Battering Assessment Tool (BAT).
- The lack of a specific “personality” type for batterers, and how an improved understanding of antecedents and consequences may serve as an explanation for the phenomenon of domestic violence.
- What are the reactions of domestic violence victims to the results of BAT research? How these findings can help victims.
- Concerns about how this information is received. Is there a risk of excusing batterers or blaming the victim?
Dr. Bonem’s page with Eastern Michigan University:
https://www.emich.edu/psychology/faculty/mbonem.php
Link to the 2008 article on the BAT:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2014-55088-006.html
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Criminal Behaviorology
Title: 51 School Attacks Averted!
Frank Straub has been in law enforcement for decades. He has been an advisor to West Point, Indianapolis Chief of Police, a White Plains, NY, Public Safety Director, an Executive Deputy Inspector General for the Office of the New York State Inspector General, among other things. He is now the Director of Strategic Studies & Center for Mass Violence Response Studies. He has a PhD in Criminal Justice and is now interested in becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). He recently wrote “A Comparison of Averted and Completed School Attacks from the Police Foundation Averted School Violence Database,” with psychologist Peter Langman. In this interview Frank discusses the comparison of 51 school attacks averted to those completed.
Show Highlights:
- Frank Straub’s extensive career in law enforcement and his path to an interest in behavior analysis.
- The research that has been done on thwarting school attacks. The distinctions found between the 51 school attacks prevented, and those that were tragically completed.
- How reporting on these stories matters and why the focus on victims can be beneficial.
- How the monitoring of social media has made a difference.
- Operational definition of a school attack and why they are similar to incidents of workplace violence.
- Of course, not all school attacks can be prevented. Nonetheless, we look for opportunities to intervene, which can be so important.
The 2019 report by Straub and Langman:
BARK – Social media monitoring system for parents:
Link to Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE)
https://www.cityofmadison.com/police/safety/commTrainings/crase.cfm
https://www.bark.us/blog/active-shooter-situation-frank-straub/
Webinar on 51 School Attacks Averted Compared to Those Completed (1/22/2019):
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Show Highlights:
- How Tobin Buhk became involved with true crime writing and his many books on the topic.
- Why we tend to look for a single explanation for why crime occurs, and how a multi-factorial approach is often rejected in favor of more peculiar theories.
- Strang Circumstances covers the assassination of the “King of Beaver Island” in 1856. The leader of a Mormon sect comes to an untimely end at the hands of his enemies.
- Andrew Kehoe, the “Dynamite Farmer,” becomes the perpetrator of the worst school massacre in history, in the year 1927.
- The diabolical mind of Arthur Waite, a chronic liar and “Heiress Hunter” who hatches a plot to poison an entire family and inherit their fortune.
- Why the true crime genre remains such a popular subject for writers, and how the “gapers block” is one explanation of our ongoing fascination with the macabre.
True Crime: Michigan by Tobin Buhk:
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His latest book Pardonable Matricide: Robert Irving Latimer, from Michigan's "Most Dangerous Inmate" to Free Man:
https://www.amazon.com/Pardonable-Matricide-Latimer-Michigans-Dangerous/dp/1476676348/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=Tobin+T.+Buhk&qid=1554073136&s=gateway&sr=8-6-spell
Tobin Buhk’s blog on true crime:
darkcornersofhistory.com
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In this interview we cover Dr. Wyatt’s work as an expert witness and how his interest in behavior analysis developed into a unique perspective on crime, forensic psychology and modern mental health care.
Show Highlights:
- The title case describes how bullying ultimately culminated into a lethal event. How a behavior analytic view differs from the way traditional psychology might conceptualize such a case.
- A private life made public, mental deterioration and a tragic act result in the aftermath of an overseas scam, in “He Murdered His Gay Partner.”
- Some of the limitations in our standard methods for treating mental illness, and especially psychiatry’s intriguing recent history. Ways that a behavior analytic viewpoint could be of benefit in the future for those in need of care.
- The real-life work of a forensic psychologist as an expert witness and how Dr. Wyatt has navigated through our adversarial legal system by offering critical testimony in numerous cases.
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Point-Killing-Murder-Malice-ebook/dp/B01BN54GNC/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1551267087&refinements=p_27%3AW.+Joseph+Wyatt&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=W.+Joseph+Wyatt
Dr.Wyatt’s Amazon Page:
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This film covers the surprising and unique story of Darius McCollum, who has stolen numerous New York City subway trains and buses to simply run their usual routes and drop passengers off at their desired destinations. He has been charged with felonies after over thirty arrests. This interview will be of interest to those intrigued by crime, the justice system, mental illness and Criminal Behaviorology.
Show highlights:
- Adam’s work as a filmmaker and the pros and cons of making documentaries.
- Why the Darius McCollum case is unique and how his story is known worldwide.
- How Autism Spectrum Disorder is more well known than when Darius was first arrested.
- The early life experiences Darius had and the possible functions of his unusual behavior.
- How Darius got away with illegally operating public transportation vehicles and his own views on why he did it.
- Why the criminal justice system may need to reconsider how they process mentally ill defendants.
- An update on a major motion film about Darius and where he is today.
Website for the film Off the Rails:
http://www.offtherailsmovie.com/
Off the Rails Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaJKDQZMW4c
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