Assignments for Sociology 589

Each discussion group will put up material at least two weeks in advance.
Material can include: 
    a) Net resources; b) Class handouts; c) Library Reserve

September 4: Background of the legal basis of our Criminal Justice Sytem.
    GUIDING QUESTION: How do social factors change systems of social control?


Peacemaking Criminology
(Purloined) Excerpts from Hammurabi's Code
Iroquois Consitution (Circa 1500 AD)
The Magna Carta
Soci of Law notes (This will be a class handout)

September 11: Social Control Agents: History of Police and others
    (GUIDING QUESTION: Burning issues in Criminal Justice)

Readings for Sept 18

Race in America (READ ALL)
Darryl Wood's exellent historical outline
History of the Salem (Mass) Police - from 1626
History of the Chicago Police
History of the San Francisco Police