STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM 3 - FALL 2005 "WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ..." general points "CORRECTIONS, INC." general points POLICE OUTLINE Clearance rates and implications - general points History of policing and police forces - general points Professionalization of police, police culture, and how this relates to current problems Community policing - general points COURTS OUTLINE The Wedding Cake Model Know the four layers well Several million arrests each year - most for petty offenses Why legal definitions of crimes are not much help in understanding how the system works Publicized cases - why they are important and why they are misleading Three factors that separate serious & less serious felonies "Doing justice" as sorting out second and third layer felonies "Get tough" policies and "dipping into the third layer" Third layer, discretion, and discrimination Court System and Courthouse Culture Huge flood of cases Clientele (poor, young, male, etc.) Dual system (adversary vs. bureaucratic) and dividing line (money & class) "Normal crimes" and how routine plea bargaining works Courthouse culture, "doing justice" and resistance to reform PRISONS OUTLINE Prisons before the binge - what were they like As the binge has grown, are most prisoners serious or petty offenders The destruction of prisoner society and implications (lock-up, gangs, etc.) Long term consequences of the binge How the binge is likely to end PROPOSALS FOR REDUCING CRIME What are primary, secondary, and tertiary approaches Be able to identify examples of each (more jobs in poor neighborhoods = primary, etc.) ELLIOTT CURRIE ARTICLE What is "the new triumphalism"? What are the three "home truths"? What has caused the recent declines in crime and violence? Why do we have a "window" now (1990s) for social changes that would reduce crime? What should criminologists do? |