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Created: December 24, 2000
Latest Update: January 22, 2001
Curran or Takata.

Required Texts:

Constitutive Criminology at Work: Applications to Crime and Justice. Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic, editors. Suny Press. 1999. ISBN:0-7914-4194-6 (pbk.)
Suny Press Review of Text Ordered at campus bookstore.

Social Justice/Criminal Justice: The maturation of Critical Theory in Law, Crime, and Deviance. Bruce A. Arrigo, editor. West/Wadsworth. 1999 ISBN: 0-534-54558-0. Ordered at campus bookstore.

Recommended Texts:

Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society. Kevin Anderson and Richard Quinney, Editors. University of Illinois Press, 2000. Ordered at campus bookstore.

Readings in Criminology Theory. Ordered at campus bookstore.

Lecture Guides:

• Lecture Index
• Lecture Topics By Week
• Basic Criminology Concepts
• Issues in Criminology
• Critical Thinking in Criminology

Study Aids:

• Self-Test Quizzes
• Discussion Questions

Participation:

• Academic Discourse Forum
• Who's Who in Academic Discourse

Reference Section:

• Articles
• Data
• Dictionaries

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Lecture Guides:

Lecture Topics:

• Lecture Index
• Week 1:
  • Criminology, Public Administration, Criminal Justice, Sociology and Psychology. Our emphasis will be sociological, befitting a Department of Sociology.
  • Dear Habermas, an Internet Site, open to all, providing a forum for your work, and preparatory materials to supplement your texts.

  • Frameworks for understanding criminology theory:
    • Habermas, critical theory, and postmodernism.
      Why Habermas? Who Is Habermas? Online.
    • Fellman, adversarialism and mutuality. Online.
    • Henry and Milovanovic, agency and structural context Online.

• Week 2:
  • Respect for learning: and "Rights Discourse" Online.
• Week 3:
  • Theories of Crime
• Week 4:
• Week 5:
  • Youth Violence Protection Directory of Topics. Assignment: Select topic - annotate for site.
  • Youth at Risk
  • Youth Suicide
• Week 6:
  • Correctional Privatization Dr. Charles W. Thomas, Center for Studies in Criminology and Law.
• Week 7:
  • Toward a New Paradigm for Policing in America by Ron Daniels. Ron Daniels is Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a long-time leading activist in the African American and progressive movement. "Left" perspective.
• Week 8:
• Week 9:
  • Self Defense: Mutuality AND Adversarialism in Avoiding Victimization
    Problems of Interpretation with Personal Experience
  • Mentors in Violence Prevention Site Northeastern University.
  • Athletes in Service to America (AIS)
  • The White Ribbon Campaign: Men Working To End Men's Violence Against Women
  • The National Coalition Against Violent Athletes "formed in 1997 in response to the growing number of violent crimes committed by athletes in all areas of the sports world." Notice that there is no identification of who owns and posts this site, at least none that I could find quickly. I found it in the LA Times in Parade. Do check it out before you rely on or cite any of the data. jeanne, january 22, 2001.
• Week 10:
• Week 11:
• Week 12:
• Week 13:
• Week 14:
• Week 15:
• Week 16: Exam Week

Basic Criminology Concepts Theories, People:

• Black Homicide:
  • Multiple Approaches to a Complex Issue
  • Links to Qualitative Data
  • Links to Quantitative Data

  • Young Africn-American Males: Continuing Victims of High Homicide Rates in Urban Communities by Gareth G. Davis and David B. Mulhausen> Heritage Foundation Data Analysis. "Right" perspective. Notes on this article not up yet. January 21, 2001.
  • Homicide in California 1995 California Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Justice Information Services.
  • Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community An African American Perspective on Community and Family Violence.
  • Dissecting Homicide: Re-thinking the Relationship Between Race and Violence Karen Parker Criminology and Law. See also Outline for Final Research Paper Karen Parker's Method's research paper guide, with examples of tables.
    Link in left-most frame to research paper guideline.
  • THE TWO NATIONS OF BLACK AMERICA: The best of times, the worst of times An essay by HENRY LOUIS GATES, Jr..
• Constitutive Theory:
  • Defined in the Dictionary of Critical Sociology Robert E. Mazur.
  • Agency and Structural Context Henry and Milovanovic.
  • Joanne Carillo's definition of agency and structural context.
• Crime, Perspectives of:
  • Quinney's Dynamic View of Crime from Williams and McShane.
  • Spitzer's Social Junk and Social Dynamite A Marxian View of Crime from Williams and McShane.
  • Military Action to Police Action Information on this concept was taken from pp. 243 ff. of Williams III and McShane's Criminology Theory, Austin T. Turk's "Political Criminality."
  • Public Order Crimes Information on this concept was taken from Chapter 14 Adler, et al., Criminology: The Shorter Version.
• Death Penalty:
  
  • Fear and Loathing in an Age of Show Business: Reflections on Televised Executions
    Paul Leighton, Dept of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University.
    www.paulsjusticepage.com
• Habermas:
  
  Why Habermas? Who is Habermas?
• Hierarchy and Dominance:
  
  • Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System
    Duncan Kennedy, (Cambridge: Afar, 1983) Online.
  • Law School as A Socially Constructed Reality
• Preventing Crime:
  • Preventing Crime A Report to the United States Congress Prepared for the National Institute of Justice by Lawrence W. Sherman, Denise Gottfredson, Doris MacKenzie, John Eck, Peter Reuter, and Shawn Bushway, in collaboration with members of the Graduate Program, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland. Online.
• Restorative Justice:
  • The Core Values of Restorative Justice: An Invitation to Join in the Dialogue Tom Cavanagh, Facilitator.
• Secondary Deviance:
  • Edwin Lemert's Secondary Deviance
    from Criminology Theory, pp. 200-201, hardcopy and online.
• Structural Violence:
  • Structural Violence Online.
    • Self Test on Secondary Deviance
    • Discussion Questions

Issues in Criminology:

• Women's Issues
• Prison Issues
• Death Penalty Issues
  • Juveniles and the Death Penalty by Lynn Cothern, OJJDP.
• Racial and Ethnic Issues
• Peacemaking Issues
• Restorative Justice Issues
  • Balanced and Restorative Justice OJJDP
• Critical Theory and Postmodern Theory
• Social Justice Issues
• Criminal Justice Data
• Quantitative and Qualitative Data
• Dummy Tables
• Issues in Inference
• Criminal Justice Careers

Critical Thinking in Criminology:

Study Aids:

Self-Test Quizzes:

• Lemert's Secondary Deviance
• Duncan Kennedy's Dominance of Hierarchy

Discussion Questions:

• On Lemert's Secondary Deviance
• On Hierarchy and "Rights Discourse"

Participation:

Academic Discourse Forum:

• Sample Discourse

Who's Who in Academic Discourse:

• Proud of Us

Reference Section:

Articles:

• Homicide:
  • Juvenile Arrests, 1999 by Howard Snyder. Includes murder statistics.
  • Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report by Howard N. Snyder and Melissa Sickmund, National Center for Juvenile Justice, September 1999. Online.
  • Variations for firearm use between juveniles and adults Online.

• Homicide and Race:
  • Young African-American Males: Continuing Victims of High Homicide Rates in Urban Communities
    The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Link added Janurary 11, 2001. Online. Gareth G. Davis and David B. Mulhausen
  • Between 1980 and 1986, there were roughly equal numbers of white and black juvenile homicide offenders; but after 1986, blacks have outnumbered whites. Online.

• Indigent Defense:
  • Indigent Defense Services in Large Counties, 1999 Bureau of Justice Statistics. Online.

• Law and Justice:
  • Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System
    Duncan Kennedy, (Cambridge: Afar, 1983) Online.

• Punishment:
  • Should the Characteristics of Victims and Criminals Count? Payne v Tennessee and Two Views of Efficient Punishment
    Boston College Law Review, XXXIV No.4, pp.731-769, (July 1993), David D. Friedman, Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Online.

• Anxiety in Context of Violence:
  • Young Adults and Anxiety Article by a Post-Doc at Case Western Reserve. Online.

  Books:

  • Constitutive Criminology at Work: Applications to Crime and Justice Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic, editors. Suny Press. 1999.

  Statistical Data Sources:

  • FedStats The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

  Dictionaries:

  • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
    
  • TR Young's Dictionary of Critical Sociology
    Mazur's Dictionary of Critical Sociology
    
  • Landow's Postcolonial Terms
    
  • Netlingo
    Explanations of terms and information that will help you with surviving on the Net. This is a little like the codebook we need to get a since of the "situatedness" on the Internet. (Hockenberry)
  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online Free.

  Sites waiting to go up onto reference pages: January 8, 2001. jeanne

  • Criminology courseSociology of Law, Distance Education Course,
  • Democracy Now!

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