{"id":105021,"date":"2026-02-04T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:25:07","slug":"drexel-professor-teaches-real-housewives-in-criminal-justice-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105021\/","title":{"rendered":"Drexel Professor Teaches &#8216;Real Housewives&#8217; in Criminal Justice Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since its debut,\u00a0The Real Housewives\u00a0has given audiences an up-close view of wealthy women in 11 U.S. cities and other countries. Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphianewsroom.com\/tag\/drexel-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Drexel University<\/a> professor has used\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/the-real-housewives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Real Housewives<\/a>\u00a0to illustrate criminology ideas, melding entertainment with real-world justice issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/life-isn-t-diamonds-money-140436151.html?guccounter=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Writing for The Conversation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/drexel.edu\/coas\/faculty-research\/faculty-directory\/criminology-justice-studies\/strange-clare\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">C. Clare Strange<\/a>, assistant research professor of criminology and justice studies, said her Real Housewives of Criminology course examines the criminal cases of the Housewives celebrities and compares them to those of the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Local Story: Former Cherry Hill Home of Muhammad Ali On Sale<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people who appear on Housewives share a real-life penchant for crime, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/rhoc-star-shannon-storms-beador-pulled-over-by-police-amid-dui-probation-11767848#:%7E:text=Shannon%20Storms%20Beador%20Pulled%20Over%20by%20Police%20in%20May%20amid%20DUI%20Probation.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">from driving-under-the-influence charges<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/real-housewives-potomac-mia-thornton-arrested-allegedly-stealing-11k-f-rcna244934\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">and theft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/real-housewives-arrest-charges-what-happened.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to fraud<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/real-housewives-kelly-bensimon-arrested-for-punching-boyfriend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">and assault<\/a>,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I believe that this course is especially relevant now, because it is increasingly common for undergraduate students to consume news about crime and punishment from streaming platforms and social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the course, students explore how factors such as social class, age, and race can impact people&#8217;s experiences with the criminal justice system. They learn how serious a crime is, a person&#8217;s criminal history, and the harm done to victims, which advance case outcomes more than any other factor.<\/p>\n<p>According to Strange, students in the course view footage from The Real Housewives, read peer-reviewed criminological research, and listen to podcast episodes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebravodocket.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Bravo Docket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We even read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Turning-the-Tables\/Teresa-Giudice\/9781501135118#:%7E:text=About%20The%20Book&amp;text=In%20her%20very%20first%20tell,entertaining%20and%20ultimately%20heartwarming%20memoir.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">book chapters<\/a> straight from some of the Housewives&#8217; memoirs,&#8221; she added. &#8220;All of this culminates in a &#8216;Final Reunion,&#8217; meaning a final verbal exam for students, in which they embody one of the Housewives cast members and answer questions from me, dressed as host Andy Cohen, about their criminal cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since its debut,\u00a0The Real Housewives\u00a0has given audiences an up-close view of wealthy women in 11 U.S. cities and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8055,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-105021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-drexel-university","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}