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Date |
Topic |
Reading Assignment |
|---|---|---|
| Week One: Jan 19 | Introduction | None |
| Jan 21 | Video: "Scared Straight" | Currie, Introduction |
| Week Two: Jan 24 | Rational choice theory | Theory: rational choice. Currie, chapter one. |
| Jan 26 | Prison as a solution | Currie, chapter two. Washington Post: "Crime Rates" |
| Jan 28 | Women and prisons. | |
| Week Three: Jan 31 | Video: "What Can We Do About Violence," part I | Optional reading: Cohen and Felson: Routine Activities Approach to Crime |
| Feb 2 | Rat choice II | Optional reading: Hirschi, "A Control Theory of Delinquency" |
| Feb 4 | Functional theories | Currie: chapter 3. Theory: Functionalism |
| Week Four: Feb 7 | Social disorganization theory/Anomie |
Theory: Social Disorganization;
Anomie. Optional Reading: Wilson: "From Institutional To Jobless Ghettos" |
| Feb 9 | Video: "Generations of Violence" | Optional reading: Cloward: "Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior |
| Feb 11 | Symbolic interactionism I | Theory: Symbolic interactionism, Differential Association. Optional reading: Sculley and Marolis: "Convicted Rapists Vocabulary of Motive" |
| Week Five: Feb 14 | Symbolic interactionism II | Theory: labeling. Optional reading: Becker:"Rules and their Enforcement". |
| Feb 16 | Video: one segment of "What Can We Do About Violence? part III" | Optional reading: Chambliss: "The Saints and the Roughnecks" |
| Feb 18 | Alternatives II: Social Action. | Curry, chapter 4; Optional video--"Children of Violence" |
| Week Six: Feb 21 | Review for the first exam. | |
| Feb 23 | First exam | |
| Feb 25 | Video: "Streetwise" | Optional reading: Heyl: "The Madam as Teacher" |
| Week Seven: Feb 28 | Conflict : Feminist Theory | Theory: Conflict. Optional reading: Chesney-Lind: "Girls' Crime and Woman's Place" |
| Mar 1 | Alternatives III: the Criminal Justice System |
Curry, chapter 5; conclusion. "From prison to prison reform" |
| Mar 3 | Video: "Demon Rum" | Optional reading: Gusfield: "Symbolic Crusade" |
| Week 8: Mar 6 | Public order crimes | Optional reading: Hagan: :"A New Sociology of Crime and Disrepute" |
| Mar 8 | Race and the war on drugs | Optional reading: Tonry: "Racial Politics, Racial Disparities, and the War on Crime" |
| Mar 10 | Video: "Before Stonewall," part I | Safe Harbor for Youth (thanks to Helen Rallis, UMD Education Dept) |
| Week 9: Mar 13 | "Before Stonewall," part II | |
| Mar 15 | Social Movements and Deviance | |
| Mar 17 | Mental illness | Optional reading: Rosenhan: "On Being Sane in Insane Places" |
| Week 10: Mar 20 | Video: "One Few Over the Cuckoo's Nest" | Optional reading: Goffman: "The Moral Career of the Mental Patient" |
| Mar 22 | Mental illness II. Review for the second exam. | Optional reading: Medvedev: "A Question of Madness" |
| Mar 24 | 2nd exam | |
| Spring Break: Mar 27-31 | ||
| Week 11: April 3 | White collar and organizational crime | E&L, 3-44. Optional reading: Liazos: "The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance" |
| April 5 | Video: "The Truth on Trial" | E&L , 83-97 |
| April 7 | E&L, 278-289 | |
| Week 12: April 10 | Corporate crime | E&L, 98-117 |
| April 12 | Video: "Nicotine Wars" | E&L, 118-138 |
| April 14 | E&L, 139-157 | |
| Week 13: April 17 | Genocide | E&L, 158-179 |
| April 19 | Video: "One Survivor Remembers" | |
| April 21 | ||
| Week 14: April 24 | American War Crimes | E&L, 180-206 |
| April 26 | Video: "Unfinished Business" | E&L: 290-303 |
| April 28 | ||
| Week 15: May 1 | E&L, 232-250. Whistleblowers take-home assignment. | |
| May 3 | Whistleblowers Group Project. Course evaluation | E&L, 257-277 |
| May 5 | Review for the final exam |
Final Exam: Section
1 (8-8:50 MWF): 8:00-9:55 a.m., Monday, May 8.
Section 2 (10.15-11.10 MWF): 8:00-9:55 a.m., Wednesday, May 10