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Latest update: November 12, 2000

Theory Class:

Fellman, Gordon. Rambo and the Dalai Lama

Used in Fall 2000. This proved to be a useful text for all of us. And it proved to be both readable and well-grounded in theory in ways that we could grasp.

Farganis, James. Readings in Social Theory

Used in Fall 2000 as optional in theory and distributive justice. Together, we chose to use this text next semester because we enjoyed the writing, liked the coverage, and students found it helpful. We are not happy that there is no index, but the site will help make up for that.

Criminology Class:

Arrigo, Bruce. Social Justice, Criminal Justice: The Maturation of Critical Theory in Law, Crime and, Deviance.

Used in Fall 1999 as required text in Sociology of Law and in Spring 2000 as optional text in Distributive Justice. Investigates many approaches to transforming the dominant discourse in criminology.

Henry, Stuart and Milovanovic, Dragan. Constitutive Criminology

Used in Fall 2000 as optional in distributive justice.

The New Primer in Radical Criminology: Critical Perspectives on Crime, Power and Identity (third edition) by: Michael J. Lynch, Raymond Michalowski, W. Groves

Criminal Justice Press: August 2000. ISBN: 1-881798-21-6 $25 (paper)

Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: edited by Kevin Anderson and Richard Quinney.

University of Illinois Press: 2000. ISBN: 0-252-06830-0 $15.95 (paper)
Barnes and Noble

Geoffrey Canada, Fist Stick Knife Gun

Beacon Press, Boston. 1995. ISBN 0-8070-0423-5 (ppr). $12.00 at Vroman's. This is another coming of age text, but this one is real life memories. Well-written and unflinching. "Here is the role model, the griot, the nurturer, the brother who never left the 'hood because he keeps looking into the faces of the children and seeing himself there." Patricia Smith, on the cover.

Richard Rhodes, Why They Kill

Vintage Books. 1999. ISBN: 0-375-70248-2 $14 in paperback at Vroman's. The subtitle is The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist. "I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return." W.H. Auden.
New text for us. Rhodes is a journalist, but writing the story and findings of criminologist, Dr. Lonnie Athens, of Seton Hall. Index and extensive endnotes. Both Rhodes and Athens are narrating the perspective of one has been harmed. This relates to our understanding of personal experience as a methodological approach. See Salon Review of Why They Kill.

Traditional criminology online

But will order a book of readings as optional for those who prefer hardcopy.

Dilemmas of Peacemaking Class (Third course in Love and Peace series, also called Peace and Conflict):

Martha Minow's Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence

Available in paperback. Beacon Pr; ISBN: 0807045071 (November 1999) $11.20 at Amazon.com.

Tutu, Archbishop Desmond. No Future Without Forgiveness

An Image Book, published by Doubleday, 1999. ISBN: 0-385-49690-7 $14.95 in paperback at Vroman's. The story of the need for Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa. Index. But not footnoted. We will need to cross-reference to theory and policy pieces ourselves. This is a new text for us, but one that follows well our work with Leo Buscaglia and Gordon Fellman. We will link conceptually with these earlier books in the series.

Belgrad, Daniel. The Culture of Spontaneity

The University of Chicago Press. 1998. ISBN: 0-226-04188-3 (cloth). But available now in paperpack. $17 at Vroman's.
New text for us. Chosen for the way in which it links conceptually the avant-garde period in American art (which confuses folks who prefer the Norman Rockwell approach), with social theory. I was particularly pleased that Belgrad links both art and music, and focuses the second chapter on American Indian art and its influence on abstract expressionism.
There is no way I can cover the book in great detail, but there will be enough Recognition and Recall practices for you to make the connection between this intense period of spontaneity in art and the importance of the imaginary in discovering new ways to transform the dominant discourse.

Moot Court: Democracy and Justice in the 21st Century

Philip Gourevitch. We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda.

Picador, USA. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York. ISBN: 0-312-24335-9 Paperback $15 at Vroman's.
New text for us. Chosen because of our need to understand up close and personal what the "little wars" all over our globe are about.

Frantz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth.

New text for moot court. Grove Press, 1963. 39th printing. ISBN: 0-8021-5083-7. $12 at Vroman's. Fanon and Sartre provide a solid theoretical background to which those in colonial studies turn. And it is this text of Fanon's to which most turn. We will look closely at the arguments that Fanon constructs.

Patrick Tierney. Darkness in El Dorado.

New text for Moot Court, but not for theory. We have discussed the Yanomami all Fall semester. Now the book is out. I believe that everyone who plans to do social research or work with social agencies should feel an obligation to read and discuss this book. It raises major ethical issues that affect all our disciplines.

Just came out: Noveber 16, 2000. Should be available at most bookstores.

Legal concepts and methods of argument online

Graduate Research Methods in Behavioral Science (Extension):

Howard Becker. Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It.

University of Chicago Press,1998. Paper $14.00 0-226-04124-7
Read the first chapter online!