Misha Glenny speaks on his investigation of organized crime networks worldwide.
Organized crime has become way more expanded, becoming 15% of the world's GDP. I am surprised by how much money and education affects the amount of crime around the world. I used to think that the more knowledge you have, the better you are to get away with crimes, which could be an initiative to become a criminal. Even though that may be true, the LACK of education may also cause one to become a criminal. They do not have the education to have a good job causing them to (most likely) have little to no money, which is an initiative to become a criminal for money. They also are (most likely) not educated enough to realize how terrible it is the crime they are doing because they think that the only way for them to survive is to live a life of crime. It is the sad truth behind many criminal's minds. The history of one's childhood may also be a huge effect upon them becoming a criminal... The area where they are living can have a HUGE effect upon their criminal acts, the higher the crime surrounding them can influence them to become criminals as well.
My learning goal for this talk is: I will learn about the history of global crime and the influences for said crimes.
To help ensure that you can complete this learning goal, here are some questions that you should be able to answer at the end of this talk:
What triggered the expansion in organized crime?
Who (mainly) greatly influenced what was going on in Europe?
When Europe's communism collapsed, causing the state to collapse, what did that also cause to collapse?
What are smugglers sending down south to the United States?
What does organized crime operate similar to?
Philip Zimbardo speaks on how easy it is to become "bad" or "evil" and why it is that they do.
The picture Zimbardo showed that looks like angels but when you looked closer you also see devils is very interesting to me. The world will always have goodness and (sadly) the world will always have evil as well. Many people want power and when that power is achieved it is sometimes used in negative ways. That usually categorizes them as evil for using their power to hurt people physically and mentally. How do you know when people are evil and/or when they are good? Is there a strong line that divides good between evil?
And what makes us kind or cruel, heroes or villains? How exactly can you determine when someone is one of those things? It is more of a opinion than a fact.
My learning goal for this talk is: I will learn what exactly it is that causes one to become "bad" or "evil".
To help ensure that you can complete this learning goal, here are some questions that you should be able to answer at the end of this talk:
What did Lucifer do that caused him to go from being an angel to a devil?
What is the key to evil?
How do pyschologists understand transformations of human character?
What is the "Lucifer Effect"
What were the results for the Stanford Prison Experiment?
