| CRIMINOLOGY WEEKLY SCHEDULE -- PART 3 (schedule, assignments, links, and powerpoints for third exam) Note: Other internet assignments might be added during the semester --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 12 American "Criminal Justice" and Crime Policy The third part of the course will focus on how the "CJS" has changed over the last thirty years in response to political pressure to "get tough" on street crime. We will also look at who (other than politicians and their corporate sponsors) have benefited from these massive changes and the tens of billions of dollars in public money involved. This is the flip side of the corporate crime coin - while large corporations have become more predatory (and often more criminal!) with the move toward total globalization, they have also been instrumental in promoting (and even sometimes writing!) the get tough on street crime legislation that they then profit from. Introduction to Part 3 >> Read: CJS Article PowerPoint Browse: Corrections, Inc. (read study guide first!) PowerPoint --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 19 Police and Courts in America This week we look at two of the three three components of the "criminal justice system" - police and courts. The focus will be on how these institutions really work, in contrast to the media images that are popularized in movies and TV shows (and many textbooks!). Two major parts of this analysis will be to explain how police culture and court culture work and why they are ineffective because they have very little real access to crime. >> Read: Police PowerPoint Courts PowerPoint -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 26 Holiday - No Class -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 3 Prisons and the "Imprisonment Binge" in America This week we will look at the disastrous "imprisonment binge" in the US and the philosophical/political rationales for imprisonment. The key question will be, as one source puts it, why has the "land of the free" become the worlds leading jailer. >> Read: Prisons PowerPoint -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 10 Crime and Criminology in the New Millenium In this final week we will look at the future of crime and criminology in America and explore some approaches that might actually work to reduce crime and violence. >> Read: Steven Barkan: Reducing Crime PowerPoint Elliott Currie article PowerPoint Exam 3 Study Guide Term papers are due this week - Sunday Dec 14 at midnight Course Evals (completing the course eval will add 5 points to your final exam score!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 17 Exam 3 (regular class time and place) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |