SAGE Podcast

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Crime in the United States, more than 11 million crimes were reported to law enforcement agencies within the United States in 2008 (FBI, 2009). Across broad categories of violent and property offenses, crimes are likely to share some commonalities, and criminological theories suggest that offenders and offenses are predictable

substantial critical literature on the positioning and treatment of women in pornography, the connection between the consumption of pornographic images and the social construction of hegemonic masculinity has been more often presumed than examined. This lacuna becomes more apparent when juxtaposed with the profusion and proliferation of Internet porn in recent years. Rather than enter into existing antiporn or proporn debates, this article seeks to pose a different set of questions about the relationship between masculinity, technology, and pornography. It suggests that the Internet produces a qualitative change in the way in which viewers are affected by pornography and that this has implications for contemporary gender relations. Beyond men's control over women's bodies, Internet porn participates in the larger drama of a technological confrontation between men and nature-one in which control and the meaning of masculinity is perpetually at stake.

Students in an evening MBA program were given the opportunity to respond to the following four questions: (a) Have you ever had the feeling that a faculty member or instructor had “given up” on you and your learning in a course? (b) What did the faculty member or instructor do or not do to give you that feeling? (d) What did you do as a result of that feeling, perception? and (d) What are ways that a faculty member or instructor can communicate to you that he or she has not given up on his or her commitment to you and your learning in a course? The authors examine the student responses in the context of an ethic of care, pedagogical caring, and pedagogical respect.

A growing proportion of students are participating in short-term study abroad programs. Despite the large number of students in these programs, there are relatively few articles that describe how to start or manage a short-term, business-related, study abroad program. With this in mind, this podcast discusses the three examples of short-term study abroad programs described in the article: the summer semester abroad, the study tour, and the service-learning trip.

Social scientists implicate high-status men as sexually objectifying women. Yet, few have investigated these men's perceptions and accounts of their own experiences. Racial variation in gender relations in college has also received little scholarly attention. Analyzing 30 in-depth, individual interviews and surveys and two focus group interviews from Black and White men at a large university, we find racial differences in approaches toward women.

This article discusses engagement, complexity, and contradiction as resources for, rather than simply impediments to, good research. Drawing on examples from her own work of the past three decades on body image, commercial sex, and the medical use of marijuana, the author examines the benefits of, as well as some of the challenges presented by, this approach to scholarly practice.

Dave Cupp sits down with Charlie Tuggle to discuss his article "Hey NBC, You Need to Use MPC In Your Olympic Coverage," in Electronic News 4.2. Charlie Tuggle of UNC, Chapel Hill discusses his method of Medal Premium Calculations (MPC) to standardized the way networks and journalists report outcomes in the Olympic

Dave Cupp sits down with Tom Linden, M.D. to discuss his article "Reporting by TV Docs in Haiti Raises Ethical Issues," in Electronic News 4.2.

Dr Xiaoming Xi talks about why the automated scoring of speaking and writing tests is such a hot topic, and explains the possibilities, limitations and current research issues in the field.

Editor Carla Peterson and author Paddy Favazza interview the adoptive parent of a 19 year-old with special needs about the losses experienced by his son, and how educators can help.

Special issue guest editor Na'im Madyun interviews three authors about tools for helping students tap their cultural capital and succeed in the evolving multicultural context of American schools.

Researchers typically label acts as "white-collar" based on the respectable status of the offender (populist perspective) or on the characteristics of the offense (patrician perspective). However, some crimes, such as identity theft are not easily classified into either of these categories. The current study is designed to contextualize previous research and to situate the crime of identity theft within these two broad perspectives of white-collar crime. To do this, 59 identity thieves incarcerated in federal prisons were interviewed to offer the offenders' perspectives on existing research describing characteristics of thieves and the techniques they employ to complete their crimes. Results show that identity thieves are a diverse group in terms of demographic characteristics (age, race, gender, and social class), employment, and criminal histories. They employed a variety of methods to both acquire information and convert it to cash. The most common methods of acquiring information were to buy it from others or to steal it from mailboxes or trashcans. They also used numerous methods to convert these identities into valuable goods, which included accessing existing accounts, applying for new credit, and obtaining loans. Thus, the findings show that identity theft is difficult to classify as white-collar crime.

African American men experience an increased incidence of prostate cancer. This podcast presents barriers to prostate cancer screening and information on a community based barber health advisor intervention to increase knowledge and awareness regarding prostate cancer and screening measures in the African American community.

Mike Kane talks to Glenn Fulcher about an argument based approach to test validation, in which he explains the concept of the 'interpretive argument', and how the notions of constructs, content and consequences fit into the picture.

The podcasts has interviews with Dr. Tom Bradbury on how stress and anger are connected within relationships and with Dr. Shannon Weaver on the role of step-mothers in modern families.