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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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