Newsflash!

All Classes -- Last Day to Drop Class is Friday, October 25, 2002.




"If not me, who? If not now, when?" (quote provided by Tom Durgom). If you find a quote that you think should be up on the weekly class page, email me (susan).





• This local hub site will serve as a forum for messages about:

  • Latest UWP Lecture Commentaries
  • Previous Week's UWP Lecture Commentaries
  • Site Additions
  • Report of Learning, Fall 2002
  • Archives
  • Site Visits and Field Trips

  • To submit a message, Prof. Takata at takata@uwp.edu
  
  All UWP Classes, Announcements
  
  • NEW Monday, October 21st, 1-4:30 p.m. - Racine County Citizens Criminal Justice Advisory Task Force meeting in the Auditorium of the County's Ives Groves Complex, located on Washington Avenue, just west of 1-94.
  • Friday, October 25th - Last Day to Drop Class (After this date, you will need the signatures of the instructor, department chair and dean, and an "extraordinary circumstance." Getting a bad grade in my class is not an "extraordinary circumstance.")
  • Friday, November 1st - 2nd ROL due
  • NEW Thursday, November 14th and Saturday, November 16th - American Society of Criminology meetings in Chicago.
  • 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.
  • Site Teaching Modules
  
  All UWP Classes, site visits and field trips:

  NEW Monday, October 21st, 1-4:30 p.m. - Racine County Citizens Criminal Justice Advisory Task Force meeting in the Auditorium of the County's Ives Groves Complex, located on Washington Avenue, just west of 1-94.

  Thursday, October 24th, 1 p.m. - Kenosha County Detention Center - filled

  NEW Tuesday, November 5th, 8:30 a.m. - Racine Correctional Institution - not filled

  NEW Thursday, November 14th and Saturday, November 16th - American Society of Criminology meetings in Chicago.

  Tuesday, October 22nd, 9 a.m. - Racine County Jail - filled

  Criminology (CRMJ/SOCA 233)
  

  • Course Syllabus

  • Class Discussion Questions

    • Culture Conflict and Subcultural Theories (due Wednesday, October 23rd). 1) Sellin describes culture conflict as conflicts of conduct norms. Explain what this means for the study of criminality and the prevention of criminal behavior. 2) Explain Sellin's theory of culture conflict. 3) What are the major differences between the three subcultural theories of Cohen, Cloward & Ohlin, and Miller? 4) Which of these four theories best explains today's gangs? Why.

    • NEW Social Control Theories (due Wednesday, October 30th). 1) What makes social control theories different from other types of theories? Why. 2) Looking at the three selections in this section of Williams & McShane, what do you think are the common elements? 3) Which of these theories best explains delinquent behavior today? Why.
    
    
    
  • Special Announcement

    Friday, November 1st - 2nd ROL due
    
    

  • Exam 2 Study Questions ( to be up in a few weeks)

    For those opting to take Exam 2, your essay will be written on a Guided Essay Form . The exam is scheduled for _____.
    
    

  • Recommended Readings
    

    --- Frederick Thrasher. The Gang.
    --- Albert Cohen. Delinquent Boys.
    --- Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin. Delinquency and Opportunity. --- David Matza & Gresham Sykes. Delinquency and Drift.
    --- Travis Hirschi. Causes of Delinquency.
    

  • Important Class Related Links

    -- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
    

    
    
    
  Corrections (CRMJ/SOCA 363)
  
  
  
  • Course Syllabus

  • Class Discussion Questions

    • The Rehabilitation Debate (due Monday, October 21st). Note: Relate your answers to the documentary, "Prison Gangs and Racism" to be shown in class. 1) Who is the typical inmate in supermax prisons? 2) Why does the supermax prison provide the best metaphor for moral bankruptcy when it comes to crime and corrections? 3) Based on the readings and other materials, does rehabilitation work? Why. 4) What are the arguments on both sides of the rehabilitation debate? Which side do you take? Why?

    • NEW Jails (due Monday October 28th). Note: Relate your answers to the documentaries, "Second City," and "Presumed Innocent" to be shown in class. 1) What are the similarities and differences between jails and prisons? Why do some people use the terms interchangeably? 2) Why are county jails considered the "bottom of the correctional barrel?" 3) What are some problems you would expect to counter if you were in charge of providing rehabilitation programs in a county jail? Why.
    
    
  • Special Announcement

    Friday, November 1st - Second ROL due
    

  • Exam 2 Study Questions (to be up in a few weeks)
    

    For those opting to take Exam 2, your essay will be written on a Guided Essay Form . The exam is scheduled for _________.
    
    

  • Recommended Readings

    --- J. F. Fishman. Crucibles of Crime: The Shocking Story of the American Jail. .
    --- D. Danto. Jail House Blues.
    --- John Irwin. The Jails: Managing the Underclass in American Society .
    
    

  • 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

    • Justice on the Bench? (due Friday, October 25th). 1) In Chapter 5, "Race and the Composition of Juries: Setting the Ground Rules," what are the three main issues discussed by Kennedy? 2) . . . Some have suggested that the names of majority race jurors be removed from the jury list (thus ensuring a larger proportion of racial minorities); others have suggested that a certain number of seats on each jury be set aside for racial minorities. How would you justify these reforms to a state legislature? How would an opponent of these reforms respond? Overall, are these good ideas or bad ideas? Why. [the complete question can be found in Walker, page 176].

    • NEW Juries and Race (due Wednesday, October 30th). 1) One of the opening quotes in Chapter 7 of the Kennedy book notes: "Balancing group bias on the jury is an invitation to jurors to abandon even the attempt to approach the evidence from a disinterested point of view." (Jeffrey Abramson). Why do you think Kennedy included this quote? What is your reaction to this quote? Why. What would Fellman's reaction be? Why. 2) What is meant by "playing the race card?" Did Johnnie Cochran use the "race card"? Why or why not.
    
    
  • Special Announcements

    Friday, November 1st - Second ROL due

    
    
    

  • Exam 2 Study Questions (to be up in a few weeks)

    For those opting to take Exam 2, your essay will be written on a Guided Essay Form . The exam is scheduled for _______.
    
    

  • Links to Lecture Notes and Other Things

    War with Iraq on the Dear Habermas site.

  • Recommended Readings

    --- Paula DiPerna. Juries on Trial.
    --- Dan T. Carter. Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South.
    --- Anthony Lewis. Gideon's Trumpet.
    --- Harriet Ziskin. The Blind Eagle.
    --- Jonathan Casper. Criminal Courts: The Defendant's Perspective.
    --- Samuel Walker. Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in the Criminal Justice System.
    --- Kenneth Culp Davis. Discretionary Justice.
    --- James P. Levine. Juries and Politics.
    
    

    --- 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
  • Number 4: Week of September 22, 2002
  • Number 5: Week of September 29, 2002
  • Number 6: Week of October 6, 2002
  • Number 7: Week of October 13, 2002
  
  

  Past Lecture Commentaries - Fall 2002

  • Lecture Commentaries for the Week of September 8, 2002
    
  • Lecture Commentaries for the Week of September 15, 2002
    
  • Lecture Commentaries for the Week of September 22, 2002
    
  • Lecture Commentaries for the Week of September 29, 2002
  • Lecture Commentaries for the Week of October 6, 2002
  • Lecture Commentaries for the Week of October 13, 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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