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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 13, 2008
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CRMJ/SOCA 352 Law and Social Change

You will be held accountable for the readings and discussion questions listed here. There will be no "testing." That means that you will not have to live in anxious anticipation of what we will ask and how much you will have to know. Instead, we will provide weekly discussion questions, lectures, essays, and concepts we feel that you should know as a result of having taken this course. You will assure us of that learning and receive your grade for the questions and concepts about which you choose to write and talk with us. In addition you will find detailed explanations and examples on our grading policies in the first week's reading.

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Week 9: Week of March 16, 2008

Reminders:

--Friday, March 14th -- Last Day to drop a semester long class

--March 15 through March 23 - Spring Break

Topic: Spring Break

Preparatory Readings

• Arrigo. Social Justice/Criminal Justice. Chapter-- .
• Mann, Zatz & Rodriguez. Images of Color, Images of Crime. Chapter -- & -- .
• Documentary/Film: "----" (shown in class)
  

Lecture related links:



• Participate in the Community Building discussion group .
  
• Curran and Takata. Sociology of Law Handbook:
  -- Introduction
  -- Chapter 1, part 1
  -- Chapter 1, part 2
  -- Chapter 2

• Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law. Check out this link Martha Minow on the Dear Habermas site.
  
  
• "My Role in Social Change" Poem by LaTricia White (Spring 2004)
  
• "They Ain't Us: Identity as an Anti-Norm"
  
• W.I. Thomas "Definition of the Situation
  
  
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Administered by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
  

Concepts to be covered:








Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to do all of the assigned readings for this week, and view "-----" to be shown in class.

Suggested Visual Projects:




Note: Start thinking about ideas for your creative measures. Must relate to "law and social change." Must be approved before starting your creative measure. Cannot be something that you are doing or have done for another course. Research cannot be 100% online (i.e., google, askjeeves). Must conduct library research using scholarly works, (not the popular press -- Time Magazine, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated). You will need to submit a bibliography with each project. No term papers! Allow time to dialogue and present your creative measure in class. Email me your ideas ASAP!



• Relate the current presidential campaign (or other statewide or local campaigns) to some of the issues mentioned in this week's readings.
• Beyond examples discussed in class, historically trace an example of "anarchist criminology"?
  
  
• Read one of the recommended books listed below on African Americans. Email me a brief book review.
• Examine the stereotypes and the stereotyping of African Americans. Select on stereotype and trace how and why this stereotype has changed from the past to present day?



Recommended Readings:




• Milovanovic & Russel. Petit Apartheid in the U.S. Criminal Justice System.

• Dennis Rome. Black Demons. [if not required reading in another course]

• Derrick Bell. Faces at the Bottom of the Well.

• Derrick Bell. Race, Racism and American Law. [if not required reading in another course]

• Randall Kennedy. Race, Crime and the Law . [iIf you have not read it for my "Race, Crime, Law" class]

• Marc Mauer. Race to Incarcerate [if not required reading in another course]

• David Cole. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Justice System.[if not required reading in another course]

• Jerome Miller. Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System.
  

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
  

• Walter Dean Myers. The Dream Bearer.

• Robert Blauner. Still the Big New: Racial Oppression in America.
  
  

  --- 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.

  
  
  

Self-Assessment Questions for each Visual Project:

1. List the names of the individuals in your group. What did you do exactly for this visual project? (If in a group, explain the division of labor and your individual contribution to this visual project).
2. Briefly explain how your visual project relates to "law and social change" (i.e., the readings, the documentaries). What did you learn?
3. Assess how the 6Cs apply to your visual project, with special attention on competence and creativity. What is your visual project self-assessment (provide a letter grade) ___ ? Why.

Course Syllabus for CRMJ/SOCA 352 "Law and Social Change"

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