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  All UWP Classes, Announcements
  
  • Friday, February 15th, beginning of class - First ROL and grid form due
  • Friday, March 15th - Last Day to Drop Class
  • March 17-23 - Spring Break
  • Friday, May 3rd, beginning of class - FINAL ABSOLUTE DEADLINE
  • Friday, May 10th - Last Day of Class
    

  • Criminal Justice Association News

    Check the Criminal Justice Department web page for future club announcement.

  All UWP Classes, Spring 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

  • Sociology of Law Spring 2002 Report of Learning Page

  • Corrections Spring 2002 Report of Learning Page

  • Law and Social Change Spring 2002 Report of Learning Page

    
    
  All UWP Classes, web assigned readings:
  • Keeping a Class Journal
  • Listening in Good Faith to Hear Myself
  • Avoiding Plagiarism
  • "Who's Habermas? Why Habermas?"
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Preface
  • Interactive Discourse
  • "The Case Against Gold Stars" by Alfie Kohn.
    

  • Grid Form
  • Grade Form
  • Debriefing Form
  • Guided Essay Form
  • Evaluating Web Resources

  All UWP Classes, field trips:

  TBA

  Sociology of Law (SOCA 359)
  
  • Course Syllabus

  • Self-Tests/Pass-Prepared Exercises (all exercises are due no later than 10 a.m. central time on the date noted)

    • Final Evaluation of Learning (due Monday, February 4th).

    • Learning to Communicate Learning (due Monday, February 4th) . Links to UWP Fall 2001 Reports of Learning (ROL) can be found at the very end of this class page

    • Theory, Policy, Practice ( due Wednesday, February 6th). Link to: Theory, Policy, Practice lecture notes

    • new Lawmaking and Precedent (due Friday, February 8th). 1) The doctrine of stare decisis means that courts will decide like cases in like manner, or that past decisions will be followed. Is there a theory of justice implicit in this doctrine? What are the sources of injustices in such a system? (Bonsignore, p.6, Q.1). 2) Do you use a precedent system in making personal decisions? Does a precedent system operate in your home, in the various classes you attend, at work, in social groups, and so on? (Bonsignore, p. 6, Q.5). 3) The court cites the Pendergrass and Joyner cases as precedent. What are the similarities between these cases and the facts of the Black case? The differences? (Bonsignore, p. 11, Q. 1). 4) What do you now see as the essential strengths and weaknesses in legal reasoning? When is legal reasoning preferable to nonlegal reasoning? If thinking like a lawyer involves careful reading of cases and legal reasoning, do you want to think like one?

    • new Law and Discretion (due Wednesday, February 13th) 1) Frank himself notes that in addition to psychological determinants there are other forces affecting judgment -- political, economic and moral biases. He thought these "environmental forces" less important. Do you agree? (from Bonsignore, p. 27. Q.3) 2) ...What role should intuition play? Can intuition be cultivated and improved, or is intuition "just there"? Can intuition peacefully co-exist with professionalism and "objectivity" or are they irreversibly opposed? If any of these elements can be controlled, i.e., rules or intuition, objectivity or subjectivity, which one ought to be? (from Bonsignore, p. 27, Q.5). 3) As a member of the general public, what judge would you want to decide the case? What does your preference tell you about yourself? About professional perspectives as compared to public perspectives? (Bonsignore, p. 32. Q.2) 4) If you or a member of your family were convicted of a forgery-type offense, which judge would you prefer? ( Bonsignore, p. 32. Q.3)

  • Special Announcement

  • new Friday, February 15th -- First Grid and ROL due

  • Recommended Readings
    

    --- 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.

  • Important Class Related Links
    

  • Links to the Sociology of Law Handbook readings -- Introduction
    -- Chapter 1, part 1
    -- Chapter 1, part 2
    -- Chapter 2
    
    
  Corrections (CRMJ/SOCA 363)
  
  
  
  • Course Syllabus

  • Self-Tests/Pass-Prepared Exercises (all exercises are due no later than 11 a.m. central time on the date noted)

    • Final Evaluation of Learning (due Monday, February 4th).
    • Learning to Communicate Learning (due Monday, February 4th) . Links to UWP Fall 2001 Reports of Learning (ROL) can be found at the very end of this class page
    • Theory, Policy, Practice ( due Wednesday, February 6th). Link to: Theory, Policy, Practice lecture notes
    • Who Goes to Prison? (due Monday, February 11th ) 1) Who goes to prison? Why. 2) Is the selection process discriminatory? Why or why not. 3) Who "belongs" in prison? Why.

    • new Hassine, pt. 1 (due Wednesday, February 13th). 1) What are your reactioins (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 observartions tell us about today's prison?

  • Special Announcement

  • new Friday, February 15th -- First Grid and ROL 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

  
  
  
  

  Law and Social Change (CRMJ/SOCA 352)

  • Revised Course Syllabus

  • Self-Tests/Pass-Prepared Exercises (all exercises are due no later than 1 p.m. central time on the date noted)

    • Final Evaluation of Learning (due Monday, February 4th).
    • Learning to Communicate Learning (due Monday, February 4th) . Links to UWP Fall 2001 Reports of Learning (ROL) can be found at the very end of this class page
    • Theory, Policy, Practice ( due Wednesday, February 6th). Link to: Theory, Policy, Practice lecture notes
    • Habermas (due Monday, February 11th). 1) According to Habemas, what is a fact? What is a norm? 2) What is the tension between facts and norms? Provide your own example of this tension.
    • new Arrigo Introduction (due Wednesday, February 13th). 1) Summarize the Arrigo Introduction. What was the main point in his introduction? 2) Why does Arrigo link critical criminology to social justice? 3) Why choose the Arrigo book for this class?

    • new Radical Criminology and Socialist Feminism (due Friday, February 15th) 1) According to a radical criminologist, what is social justice? Is there a connection between criminal justice and social justice? (from Arrigo, p. 27, Q.1) 2) Imagine some of the things you have witnessed in your life that violate your sense of social justice. Discuss these with your classmates in an open forum. (from Arrigo, p. 28, Q.9). 3) How do socialist feminists explain the criminality of women? (Arrigo, p. 47, Q.4) 4) What insights about social justice does a socialist feminist perspective offer? (Arrigo, p. 27, Q.6).

  • Special Announcements

  • new Friday, February 15th -- First Grid and ROL due

  • Links to Lecture Notes and Other Things

    "Who's Habermas? Why Habermas?"
    Gordon Fellman related materials on the Dear Habermas site.

  • Other Recommended Readings

    --- 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

    
    All UWP Classes, Fall 2001 Report of Learning (ROL)
    

    • Criminology Fall 2001 Report of Learning Page

    • Corrections Fall 2001 Report of Learning Page

    • Race, Crime & Law Fall 2001 Report of Learning Page

      
      
    
    

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