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Bonn, S. (2014). Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World’s Most Savage Murderers. New York: Skyhorse. Dr. Bonn’s presents an analysis on why the public is fascinated by deviants and criminals of the most serious kind.
Wiley, S.A., & Esbensen, F.-A. (2016). The Effect of Police Contact: Does Official Intervention Result in Deviance Amplification? Crime and Delinquency, 62(3). An analysis testing labelling theory’s hypothesis that youth stopped by police will, in turn, engage in more delinquent behaviour.
Rowan, Z.R. (2016). Social Risk Factors of Black and White Adolescents’ Substance Use: The Differential Role of Siblings and Best Friends. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(7). An analysis of the role friends and siblings play in influencing deviance in the form of adolescents’ substance use.
Recommended videos
Almereyda, M. (2015). Experimenter. Magnolia Pictures. A feature film about Stanley Milgram, the researcher who ran tests to see what lengths people would go to for authority’s sake.
Milgram, S. (1962). Obedience. Stanley Milgram. A documentary about the Milgram experiment using actual footage of the experiment as shot by Stanley Milgram.
McKay, A. (2015). The Big Short. Regency Films. A film about the true story of white-collar crime set during 2008’s global financial meltdown.
Recommended websites
https://icclr.org/ The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, an independent United Nations-affiliated research institute for crime prevention.
https://www.ccja-acjp.ca/pub/en/ Website for the Canadian Criminal Justice Association, an independent, voluntary association devoted to improving the Canadian justice system.
http://www.caefs.ca/ Website for the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, an association of self-governing, community-based Elizabeth Fry Societies that support women in the justice system.