I have completed the magnum opus of my Associate's Degree. My paper on reducing inmate recidivism through high school and post secondary education is finished and ready to be submitted to the Beacon competition.

This is far and away a better paper than the extended breastfeeding paper that won last year.

I have hope.

Anyone who wants to read it may. Comment with your email if I don't have it and I'll send you a copy.

I. Am. Done.

Thus concludes my foray into the subject of inmate education and recidivism.

For anyone who is interested, educating inmates on average leads to a 37+% less recidivism rate than inmates who recieve no education. Those who earn Bachelor's Degrees re-offend 7.8% and those who have recieved Master's Degrees re-offend ZERO percent (this is compared to the national average of about 46% rate of recidivism).

Let's educate them, release them and get them into society where they can earn money, invest in the economy and become tax payers.

It is the single most effective way, to date, to prevent recidivism.

...for the next six weeks. The professor loaded the Criminology content today. Squeeee! There are two tests and one term paper. We get to choose our topic but she hasn't loaded the parameters yet.

::squinshes eyes tight::
Please let me do a paper on serial killers! Please let me do a paper on serial killers!.

Now, it's the sociological study of Criminology so I won't be able to do psychological profiles or anything like that (that would have been more acceptable in my Abnormal Psych class)....BUT I was thinking about doing a paper on the fact that serial killers don't follow the sociological parameters of violent criminals...i.e. they are usually middle class, intelligent, educated, etc... (not all of them, mind you but enough to buck the model).

Sooooo...we'll see what she lets me do. Any other ideas for sociological concepts in regards to serial killers?