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Department of Criminal Justice
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest Update: October 27, 2002
Newsflash!
2nd ROLs and green grid forms are due beginning of classtime on Friday, November 1, 2002.
"The right to liberty is fundamental. But it is what a person or a people does with it that tells their caliber and their fiber, and that decides whether they will continue to be free, and whether their nation will be prosperous." - Margaret Thatcher. (quote provided by Bettie Poole). 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
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- Site Additions
- Report of Learning, Fall 2002
- Archives
- Site Visits and Field Trips
- To submit a message,
All UWP Classes, Announcements
- NEW Wednesday, November 27th - Exam 2
- 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)
Forms for All UWP Classes:
- 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
- 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:Criminology (CRMJ/SOCA 233)
Tuesday, November 5th, 8:30 a.m. - Racine Correctional Institution - filled
NEW Thursday, November 7th, 1:30-5 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, November 14th and Saturday, November 16th - American Society of Criminology meetings in Chicago.
NEW Thursday, November 21st, 1:30-5 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.
NEW Thursday, December 5th, 1:30-5 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.
Corrections (CRMJ/SOCA 363)
- Course Syllabus
Class Discussion Questions
- 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.
- NEW Target/Victim (due Wednesday, November 6th). Note: Incorporate in your answers, the documentary, "Aurora Colors." 1) According to routine activities theory, what three elements are needed for a crime to occur? Provide an example to illustrate each element. 2) What is the major underlying assumption of the rational choice perspective? 3) Joel Best's article opens with "victimization has become fasionable." Why does he say this? 4) Which of the two theories -- rational choice or routine activities -- best explains "Aurora Colors?" Why. What are the implications for "theory, policy, practice?" Why.
- Special Announcement
NEW Wednesday, November 27th - Exam 2
- Exam 2 Study Questions ( to be up next week)
For those opting to take Exam 2, your essay will be written on a Guided Essay Form . The exam is scheduled for Wednesday, November 27th.
- Recommended Readings
--- Frederick Thrasher. The Gang.
--- David Matza & Gresham Sykes. Delinquency and Drift.
--- Travis Hirschi. Causes of Delinquency.
--- Joan Moore. Going down to the Barrio: Homeboys and Homegirls in Change .
--- Anne Campbell. Girls in the Gang.
--- John Hagedorn. People and Folks: Gangs, Crime and the Underclass in a Rust Belt City.
--- James Virgil. Barrio Gangs
--- Ko-lin Chin. Chinese Subculture and Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups in America.
--- Malcolm Klein. The American Street Gang.
- Important Class Related Links
-- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- Course Syllabus
Class Discussion Questions
- 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.
- NEW Community Corrections (due Monday, November 4th). 1) What are the differences and similarities between probation and parole? 2) What is the purpose of probation? What is the purpose of parole? 3) How does the use of probation effect the correctional system? Why is it used so extensively? 4) How could the investigative and supervisory function of probation be most effectively organized? Given these two organizational tasks, how should a probation officer parcel his/her time and effort? Why.
- Special Announcement
NEW Wednesday, November 27th - Exam 2
- Exam 2 Study Questions (to be up next week)
For those opting to take Exam 2, your essay will be written on a Guided Essay Form . The exam is scheduled for Wednesday, November 27th.
- Recommended Readings
--- H. Abadinsky. Probation and Parole: Theory and practice. .
--- J. Augustus. John Augustus: First Probation Officer.
--- D.J. Champion. Probation and Parole in the United States .
--- Peggy Burke. Abolishing Parole.
--- Richard McCleary. Dangerous Men: The Sociology of Parole
--- Jonathon Simon. Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990
- 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
- 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.
- NEW Race and Sentencing (due Wednesday, November 6th). 1) How would you answer the question, "When does race make a difference in sentencing?" Why. How would Randall Kennedy answer this question? Why. 2) Some researchers argue that racial stereotypes affect the ways in which decision makers, including criminal justice officials, evaluate the behavior of minorities. What are the stereotypes associated with African Americans? Latinos/as? Native Americans? Asian Americans? How might these stereotypes affect judges' sentencing decisions? What would Fellman say? Why. 3) What type of sentencing reforms could be implemented to eliminate racial disparities? What does Randall Kennedy advocate when it comes to this issue? Why.
- Special Announcements
NEW Wednesday, November 27th - Exam 2
- Exam 2 Study Questions (will be up next week)
For those opting to take Exam 2, your essay will be written on a Guided Essay Form . The exam is scheduled for Wednesday, November 27th .
- Links to Lecture Notes and Other Things
- Recommended Readings
--- Harriet Ziskin. The Blind Eagle.
--- Kenneth Culp Davis. Discretionary Justice.
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--- 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
- Number 8: Week of October 20, 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
- Lecture Commentaries for the Week of October 20, 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