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Media, Crime and Criminal Justice Preparations
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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: December 4, 2003
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CRMJ 490-01: Media, Crime, and Criminal JusticeYou will be held accountable for purposes of grading for the readings and exercises listed here. There will be no "testing." That means that you will not have to live in anxious anticipation of what we will ask and how much you will have to know. Instead, we will provide weekly discussion questions, lectures, essays, and concepts we feel that you should know as a result of having taken this course. You will assure us of that learning and receive your grade for the questions and concepts about which you choose to write and talk with us. In addition you will find detailed explanations and examples on our grading policies in the first week's reading.* * * * * Week 16: Week of December 14, 2003
Topic: Media, Crime and Criminal Justice: Teaching/Learning Revisited
Preparatory Readings:
- Surette. Media, crime, and criminal justice.
- Merlo and Benekos. What's wrong with the criminal justice system: Ideology, Politics and the Media.
- Potter and Kappeler. Constructing crime.
Lecture related links:
--- Sociology of Knowledge Files . --- Check out this link -- Ray Surette's website ( found by Bettie Poole).
Concepts to be covered:
- aesthetics of answerability
- taxonomy of learning
- external motivation vs. internal motivation
Discussion Questions:
- What was the most interesting creative measure that you worked on this semester? Why.
- What is the most important thing you learned in this course? Why.
- What advice would you give to students new to this teaching/learning approach? Why.
- What ideas and suggestions do you have to improve on this teaching/learning approach? Why.
Suggested Creative Activities:
- Show and Tell: Find an imaginative approach to presenting one of your most interesting creative measures.
- Explore one of these topics:
--- the relationship of Alfie Kohn to this teaching/learning approach.
--- improvements to this teaching/learning model.
Recommended Readings:
Alfie Kohn.Beyond Discipline.
Alfie Kohn. No Contest.
Alfie Kohn. Punished by Reward.
Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of Freedom.
Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of Hope.
Peter McLaren. Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution.
Media Sources:
Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor - New York Times
Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Guardian
Wall Street Journal -The Weekly Standard - The Nation
Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune - The Washington Post
Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor
Indymedia - BBC News - New Profile - Progressive Sociologists Network