A Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Criminological Theory: The Nacirema Revisited
Frank Hagan, Mercyhurst College
Peter J. Benekos, Mercyhurst College
ABSTRACT
Horace Miner's classic article "The Body Ritual of the Nacirema" is revisited, updated and used as a tool with which to examine Criminological theories by applying these theories not to criminals, but to undergraduates.