Andrea Peralta-Villa, Criminology, Week 6 (Final)
Last week of my internship, I gave a presentation to some undergraduate students as well as some doctoral students to show them my research methods and the process before handing the project over to them. The presentation was moved up to Monday when is supposed to be due on Friday, which made me anxious, luckily […]
Andrea Peralta-Villa, Criminology, Week 5
This week, I spent my time working on a presentation that I am supposed to give to a group of undergraduates before handing my research over to them. While researching, I have had to think about the reproducibility of my work, patterns, and methodology. I am extremely nervous about my presentation, but I have put […]
Andrea Peralta-Villa, Criminology, Week 4
This week was great! It was extremely productive and I got to break out of my usual work routine. To start of the week, I attended a meeting at the Institute of Behavioral Science, then in the middle of the week I attended another meeting with the librarian at CU Law to help us navigate […]
Andrea Peralta-Villa, Criminology, Week 3
As the title states, it’s been three weeks since I arrived in Boulder for my internship. It has felt a lot shorter than I anticipated, even so, I have learned much more than I could have imagined. I followed the same routine, as usual, I went to the IBS (Institute of Behavioral Science), I did […]
Andrea Peralta-Villa, Criminology, Week 2
It’s my second week on the internship, yet I have started to grow accustomed to the workload, and I have begun to understand the criminal cases a lot more than when I originally started. Every time I use Bloomberg Law, I make sure to pull up a google document to write down patterns that I […]
Andrea Peralta-Villa, Criminology at the Institute of Behavioral Science, Week 1
Hello and welcome to my Pintern Blog! My name is Andrea Peralta-Villa, and I currently attending the Colorado University of Boulder for an internship on federal persecution of criminal enterprises. I am studying under professor David Pyrooz, an assistant professor in the Sociology Department. David has been working on several research projects to improve gang […]