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SAMPLE SYLLABI: Fall 2004 - Fall 2006
Fall 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
- Dr. Jock Young's class, Crossing the Borderline: Explorations in Critical Criminology and the Sociology of Deviance (SOC 85000)
The course serves to introduce students to key concepts in critical criminology in the context of current debates about crime and its control.Theories dealt with will be social constructionism and moral panic theory , subcultural theory and the Birmingham School, the emergent field of cultural criminology, the sociology of war and genocide. Topics covered will be drugs, mass incarceration, the punitive turn,race and crime, terrorism, a critique of quantitative methods and problems in developing a critical ethnography. Authors dealt with will include Paul Willis, Dick Hebdidge, Loic Wacquant, David Garland, Jeff Ferrell, Jack Katz, Angie Mc Robbie, Stan Cohen. Students need no preliminary knowledge and can start from scratch. We will be hosting the ERASMUS Critical Criminology Common Sessions next term and will be hosts to students from Spain, Belgium, Germany, England and the Netherlands. Students are welcome to take part in the conference.
- Dr. Gwen Gerber's class, Psychology of Policing (CRJ 80600)
Psychology has much to contribute to the understanding of police officers and the way in which they function. The focus of the course is on using psychological principles and research to gain an in-depth understanding of important topics within the field of policing including: the personality of police officers, police partnerships, gender issues in policing, police selection, police stress, police suicide, counseling of police officers, supervision and evaluation of police.
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Dr. Kleining's class, Philosophical and Ethical Problems in Criminal Justice (CRJ81000)
Criminal Justice Ethics
Criminal justice ethics is a conceptual umbrella that covers ethical questions generated within and between the various institutions that comprise the so-called criminal justice system, including the police, legal profession, courts, and corrections. This course will not attempt to cover all the institutional components of the criminal justice system, but will focus on overarching and representative and ethical issues encountered in policing, the jury system, and corrections.
Background texts:
John Kleinig, The Ethics of Policing (Cambridge, 1996).
John Kleinig & Margaret Leland Smith (eds), Community, Discretion, And Correctional Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Materials relating to jury ethics will distributed, though participants would find it valuable to read Jeffrey Abramson, We, The Jury.
- Dr. Larry Sullivan's class, Philosophical and Theoretical Bases of Contemporary Corrections (CRJ83200)
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