http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 04:35:14 PDT Sun, 19 May 2013 04:35:14 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78203 What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University. Welcome to the Stanford Prison Experiment web site, which features an extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=384148 This site contains information about the problems related to the release of the mentally ill from correctional facilities into our communities. Included on this site are links to the actual program, videos containing updates, discussion boards, information about a model facility that one community is using to combat the cycle of release/re-arrest, along with additional readings on this issue. According to the authors of this site, 2/3 of the mentally ill who are released from our jails and prisons will be re-arrested within 18 months. This program is related to and follows some of the mentally ill offenders who were interviewed for the previous program produced by Frontline, "The New Asylums.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=291854 Enter your zip code for an in-depth pollution report for your community. This is an excellent resource exercise you can use in your courses to stimulate discussions concerning environmental issues. I use this in my sociology courses; however, it can be applied in almost all disciplines. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=291852 This web site is from the Southern Poverty Law Center. It chronicles various types of hate crimes and a community response guide. I use this site for discussion each term in my sociology courses. This site can also be used in any discipline. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=384340 This site contains materials related to a PBS documentary, "The First Measured Century," that examines trends over time from the perspective of the people who collect and interpret the data. This segment investigates the reasons behind the changes in crime trends we've seen over the last century. It contains links to experts who attempt to explain the trends and a link to the relevant chapter of the book from which the documentary is based. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=383570 Currently, 1/3 of women in the military say they have experienced sexual harassment. Many women in the military have experienced what we've come to call Military Sexual Trauma (MST). This site provides video, statistics, as well as other types of information about the problem of rape in the military. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=361559 "In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. Although his killers were arrested and charged with murder, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white, all-male jury." This site was designed to supplement a PBS film by the same title. Included here are supplementary materials including a synopsis of the film, transcripts, interviews, links to biographies of people involved, and teacher's guide.