K. Ryan Proctor is a criminologist and sociologist who focuses on developing a transdisciplinary criminology by integrating biological, psychological, and sociological insights.

He earned his degrees in sociology from the University of Washington and the University of California at Riverside and has engaged in diverse research on health, inequality, and criminology. He is an associate professor at Avila University and published a book on Mechanistic Criminology in 2019.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:15 What is crime?

00:01:54 What is a deviant action?

00:02:25 Hunter gathering society, crime, morality and norms

00:03:17 Why certain actions are considered morally bad?

00:05:08 Why alcohol is considered bad in certain cultures?

00:08:35 Difference between morals and norms?

00:10:30 Do animals have morals?

00:11:56 Can a bad moral action, get you criminal charge

00:13:46 Why certain humans choose to do a criminal act?

00:15:40 Why may not have freewill

00:17:41 Social Control theory

00:18:44 Learning theory

00:19:28 How society influences an individual to commit crime

00:21:57 How society influences law and regulations

00:23:33 Race and crime

00:26:04 Judging people based on their appearance

00:32:12 Business world and judgment based on appearance

00:35:12 Intuition and evolution

00:36:58 Intuition to detect a bad person

00:38:11 Ryan's approach to studying crime

00:44:12 Biggest challenges criminologists facing today

00:47:23 Can we predict a criminal baby

00:49:11 Are morals human construct

00:50:39 Why there's no objective wrong or right

00:52:52 Would we consider present good morals bad in the future?

00:54:47 How governments prevent crime from happening

00:58:17 Effective ways to prevent crime

01:00:13 Reason why Immigrants commit crimes

01:01:46 Criminal mafia having trouble recruiting people

01:02:12 How lack of money breeds crime

01:04:08 Solution to lack of money

01:05:33 Gangs and violence

01:07:37 How citizens & society can help reduce crime

01:08:52 Why certain countries have lower crime rate

01:10:35 Example of a country dealing with immigration and crime successfully

01:12:23 How weather may affect crime rates

01:13:18 How video games reduced crime

01:17:12 Routine activities theory

01:18:47 Future of criminilogy

01:21:18 Why criminology discipline sticking to policy side

01:24:09 How sociologists are amazing at logically arguing

01:25:27 End