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All Classes -- First ROL and grid forms due beginning of class on Friday, September 27, 2002.




"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- John F. Kennedy.





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  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)
  

  • 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

  • Criminology Fall 2002 Report of Learning Page

  • Corrections Fall 2002 Report of Learning Page

  • Race, Crime and Law Fall 2002 Report of Learning Page

    
    
  Forms for All UWP Classes:

  • Grid Form
  • Grade Form
  • Debriefing Form
  • Guided Essay Form
  • Evaluating Web Resources for web site reviews.

  All UWP Classes, field trips:

  TBA

  Criminology (CRMJ/SOCA 233)
  

  • Course Syllabus

  • Class Discussion Questions

    • 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 Positivist and Psychological Theories (due Friday, October 4th). 1) How did the Classical School and the Positivist School differ? In other words, how did Lombroso's work and theory differ from the theorists who came before? 2) What is Pollock's critique of the Classical School, the Positivist School and the psychological theories? Why. Do you agree with her critique of these theories? Why.

    
    
  • Special Announcement

    Friday, September 27th - First ROL and grid form due.

  • Recommended Readings
    

    --- Richard Herrnstein and James Q. Wilson. Crime and Human Nature.
    --- Richard Herrnstein and ____ Murray . The Bell Curve.

  • Important Class Related Links

    -- NEW Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
    

    
    
    
  Corrections (CRMJ/SOCA 363)
  
  
  
  • Course Syllabus

  • Class Discussion Questions

    • Theory, Policy, Practice ( due Friday, September 20th). Link to: Theory, Policy, Practice lecture notes
      

    • revised due date Who Goes to Prison? (due Wednesday, September 25th ) 1) Who goes to prison? Why. 2) Is the selection process discriminatory? Why or why not. 3) Who "belongs" in prison? Why.
      

    • revised due date Hassine pt. 1 (due Friday, September 27th) 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?

    • 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?"

    • 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

    --- NEW Alfie Kohn. Beyond Discipline.
    

    --- 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

    • Theory, Policy, Practice ( due Friday, September 20th). Link to Theory, Policy, Practice lecture notes .
      

    • revised due date What is Race? (due Friday, September 27th) 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 Fellman pt. 3 (due Wednesday, October 2nd). 1) Covering chapters 7 through 10 in the Fellman book, what are "adversary rituals of coercion." Provide at least 3 different examples of adversary rituals of coercion. 2) Given recent events, what does Fellman tell us about the future of war? Do you agree or disagree with Fellman? Why. 3) What does "Rambo" symbolize, according to Fellman?

  • 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

    Continuation of Bell Curve Genetics Arguments
    

    Social Solidarity - Bogardus' Social Distance Scale

    Transforming Discourse: Teaching Tolerance
    Gordon Fellman related materials on the Dear Habermas site.

  • NEW Other Recommended Readings

    --- Sidney Lens.. The Day Before Doomsday.
    --- Paul Ehrlich. The Race Bomb
    --- Richard Goldsby. Race and Races.
    --- Robert Blauner. Racial Oppression in America.
    --- Cornel West. Race Matters.
    --- William Julius Wilson. The Declining Significance of Race.
    

    
    

    --- 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
  
  

  Past Weekly Hubpages - Fall 2002

  • Number 1: Week of September 1, 2002
  • Number 2: Week of September 8, 2002
    
  • Number 3: Week of September 15, 2002
  
  

  NEW Past Lecture Commentaries - Fall 2002

  • Lecture Commentaries for the Week of September 8, 2002
    
  • Lecture Commentaries for the Week of September 15, 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
    
    
  
  

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