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Prof. Takata.
Department of Criminal Justice
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest Update: September 17, 2002
Newsflash!
UWP Lecture Commentaries are now up. They will be weekly files, but hopefully updated daily. You can add your own comments to some of the fascinating discussions by emailing me. CSUDH students are welcome to participate! You can find the links here: Lecture Commentaries - Week of September 15th and Lecture Commentaries - Week of September 8th . In the future, these commentaries will be linked below.
"Of all the human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
This local hub site will serve as a forum for messages about:
- Latest UWP Lecture Commentaries
- Site Additions
- Report of Learning, Fall 2002
- Archives
- Field Trips
- To submit a message,
All UWP Classes, Announcements
- Friday, September 27th - First ROL and grid form due.
- Friday, October 25th - Last Day to Drop Class
- Friday, December 6th, beginning of class - FINAL ABSOLUTE DEADLINE
- Monday, December 16th - Last Day of Class
Criminal Justice Association News
Check the Criminal Justice Department web page for future club announcement.
All UWP Classes, Fall 2002 Report of Learning (ROL)
All UWP Classes, web assigned readings:
- Keep in mind:
** the 5Cs: competency, consistency, cooperation, communication, and creativity.
** Bloom and Krathwohl's Taxonomy of Learning: latent learning, recognition, recall, application, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.Reports of Learning (ROL) must be interactive and interdependent. You are responsible for telling me what you have accomplished, verifying it with your journal, and then emailing me a brief ROL. A ROL must be interactive to be effective. By writing your own ROL and negotiating it with me, means that you must assume responsibility for your learning by giving me detailed evidence of your learning. Link to UWP Grade Form and for an explanation of the grade form link to Choosing Measures for Grading and Measures of Learning
Race, Crime and Law Fall 2002 Report of Learning Page
All UWP Classes, field trips:
- Cooperative Learning
- Preface
- Keeping a Class Journal
- Listening in Good Faith to Hear Myself
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- "Who's Habermas? Why Habermas?"
- Interactive Discourse
- "The Case Against Gold Stars" by Alfie Kohn.
- Grid Form
- Grade Form
- Debriefing Form
- Guided Essay Form
- Evaluating Web Resources
Criminology (CRMJ/SOCA 233)
TBA
Corrections (CRMJ/SOCA 363)
- Course Syllabus
Class Discussion Questions
- Learning/Teaching (due Monday, September 16th) .
- Theory, Policy, Practice ( due Friday, September 20th). Link to: Theory, Policy, Practice lecture notes . Also refer to Preventing Crime.
- Measuring Crime (due Monday, September 23rd). 1) Which method -- Uniform Crime Reports, National Crime Victimization Surveys, self-reports -- would you rely on most in measuring how much crime there is? Why. 2) How do these three methods influence crime control policies? Why. Related lecture notes on Measuring Crime
- Classical School (due Wednesday, September 25th). 1) What was the essence of the Classical School? 2) According to Beccaria, what is the purpose of punishment? 3) What does Bentham mean by "the principle of utility?" 4) What are some present-day examples of the Classical School?
- NEW
- Special Announcement
Friday, September 27th - First ROL and grid form due.
- Recommended Readings
--- Howard Becker. Outsiders. (labeling theory)
--- Jeffrey Reiman. The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Prison. (Marxism)- Important Class Related Links
-- What is Theory?
-- Definitions of Crime
-- Crime and Criminal Law
- Course Syllabus
Class Discussion Questions
- Learning/Teaching (due Monday, September 16th) .
- Theory, Policy, Practice ( due Friday, September 20th). Link to: Theory, Policy, Practice lecture notes
- Who Goes to Prison? (due Monday, September 23rd ) 1) Who goes to prison? Why. 2) Is the selection process discriminatory? Why or why not. 3) Who "belongs" in prison? Why.
- Hassine pt. 1 (due Wednesday, September 25th) 1) What are your reactions (i.e., thoughts, impressions) to the first eight chapters of Life Without Parole? What surprised you the most? Why. 2) In terms of theory, policy, practice, what do Hassine's experiences and observations tell us about today's prison?
- NEW Hassine Interviews (due Monday, September 30th). 1) In Part 2 Interviews in the Hassine book, what is the most pressing problem in today's prison? Why. 2) If the prison experiment has failed miserably, then why do we keep building more prisons? Relate this to the readings as well as to "theory, policy, practice?"
- NEW Prison Violence (due Wednesday, October 2nd). 1) Some people believe that the history of corrections shows a continuous movement toward more humane treatment in prisons as society, in general, has progressed. What would Hassine say? Why. What is your view? Why. 2) Compare and contrast Hassine's book with the Haas & Alpert readings on prison violence. Which came first -- the violent person creating the violent prisons or prisons as a violent environment creating the violent person (or creating a more violent person)? Wny.
- NEW
- Special Announcement
Friday, September 27th - First ROL and grid form due.
- Recommended Readings
--- James Austin & John Irwin. It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge
--- Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer. Punishment and Social Structure.
--- Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish.
--- David Rothman. Discovery of the Asylum.
- Interesting Links
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Jail Cam Link. Link found by Mary Frances Chachula.
Wisconsin Department of Corrections
Virtual Prison Tour
Race, Crime and Law (CRMJ/SOCA 365)
- Course Syllabus
Class Discussion Questions
- Learning/Teaching (due Monday, September 16th) .
- Fellman, part 1 & 2 (due Wednesday, September 18th ) -- 1) Which -- competition or cooperation -- is more characteristic of contemporary American society? Why. 2) What is meant by "paradigm shift?" 3) Compare and contrast the main idea in Dr. Seuss' "Butter Battle Book" (book and/or video) with Rambo and the Dalai Lama? (Video to be shown on Friday, September 13th). Why. 4) How does Fellman's book relate to September 11, 2002 and the war ? Why. Also refer to: Neither Adversarialism nor Mutuality Espouse, But a Cautious Balancing of Both
- Theory, Policy, Practice ( due Friday, September 20th). Link to Theory, Policy, Practice lecture notes .
- What is Race? (due Wednesday, September 25th) 1) Summarize the arguments between the biologic/genetic vs. the socio-political concept of race. Which perspective do you agree with the most? Why. 2) Does race matter? Why or why not. 3) The descriptive information in UCR arrest data depicts an overrepresentation of African American offenders for most violent and property crimes. What are the possible explanations for such disparity? [question from page 55 in Color of Justice].
- NEW
- Special Announcements
Friday, September 27th - First ROL and grid form due.
Wednesday, October 9th, Noon to 1 p.m. -- Dialogue on "LA RAZA" Culture. Moln 107
- Links to Lecture Notes and Other Things
NEW Continuation of Bell Curve Genetics Arguments
"Who's Habermas? Why Habermas?"
Gordon Fellman related materials on the Dear Habermas site.- Other Recommended Readings
--- Alfie Kohn. No Contest. The Case Against Competition.
--- Spencer Johnson. Who Moved My Cheese?
--- Thomas Kuhn. Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
--- Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
--- Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law. Check out this link Martha Minow on the Dear Habermas site.- Links to the Sociology of Law Handbook readings -- Introduction
-- Chapter 1, part 1
-- Chapter 1, part 2
-- Chapter 2
NEW Past Weekly Hubpages - Fall 2002
All UWP Classes, Spring 2002 Report of Learning (ROL)
- Sociology of Law Spring 2002 Report of Learning Page
- Corrections Spring 2002 of Learning Page
- Law and Social Change Spring 2002 Report of Learning Page