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AUGUST 26: What is crime? --The Nature of Crime (LaFree, et. al) --History of crime GUIDING QUESTION: Where is it written that it's better to be nice than not nice? September 2: --Theories of crime (con't) --GUIDING QUESTION: Theory, Schmeory: Who cares? (note: the concept of "social constuctionism" came up tonight, and is relevant for much of what we're doing, so there are two readings on it) --REVIEW YOUR METHODS AND THEORY FROM PRIOR CLASSES --Overview of Theory (Tittle) --What is Social Construtionism? --Criticisms of Social Construtionism =========================================================== SEPTEMBER 9 --media and crime Readings GUIDING QUESTION: Do media shape our images of crime or vice-versa? =========================================================== SEPTEMBER 16: Spitting on the sidewalk: Misdemeanors GUIDING QUESTION: How do we sort out serious from non-serious crimes? Presenters: Jason, Liz, Emily --Dabney on Public Order Crimes --Phoenix on prostitution --Robinson on drugs --Pamela Roby - conflict theory --More guiding questions for readings --Brief notes on ideology (Review) =========================================================== SEPTEMBER 23: Violent Crime GUIDING QUESTION: Is "violence" a social construct? Presenters: Izzy, Josh, Jackie --Heimer/Delinquency --The Rap on Foucault --School Violence --Construction of Violence --Wood - Rape in Post-apartheid South Africa =========================================================== SEPTEMBER 30 GUIDING QUESTION: How have we learned that crime is a "social construct?" Presenters: Emily; Jason; Liz; Pablo READINGS: --REVIEW: The Rap on Foucault --Booth article --Carter and Clelland article --Ruddell and Decker article --Gordon article =========================================================== OCTOBER 7 - CORPORATE CRIME GUIDING QUESTION: What's wrong with making money? Presenters: Karon, Jackie B. READINGS: --Aguilara - Organizational Corruption --Moohr - Bad Apples --Braithwaite - Corporate Crime --Psychology of Fraud --Soares - Corporate Crime --Critical Look at Critical Criminology =========================================================== OCTOBER 14 GUIDING QUESTION: Sex offenders & Registries: Too far, or not far enough? Presenters: Bobbi; Jackie C.; Liz; Josh READINGS: --Edgerton - "Banishment/Right to Live where you Want" --Living in the woods? --Garfinkel - "Coming of Age in America" --Tewksbury - Perceptions of Punishment" --"Sex Offender Registries" --Rational Sex-offender laws?" --Tittle in labeling theory =========================================================== OCTOBER 21 GUIDING QUESTION: Are States "People" to be Indicted? Presenters: Izzie, Jason, Zack --Starn: Engineering Internment --UN Declaration of Human Rights --Jamieson & McEvoy: State Crime by Proxy/Othering --Rome - Elements of Crimes --Michael Welch: Trampling Rights --William Chambliss: State Orgnized Crime --Kauzlarich - Toward a Victimology of Crime --Rome Statute of Internatinal Criminal Court =========================================================== OCTOBER 28 GUIDING QUESTION: READINGS: --Croall: Who is the White Collar Criminal --Croall: White Collar Crime, Consumers, and Victimization --Holtfreter: Public Perceptions/white collar crime & Punishment --Schoepfer: Do Perceptions of Punishment Vary? --Petersilia: Equivalency of Punishments (for fun) =========================================================== NOVEMBER 4 GUIDING QUESTION: PRESENTERS: Karon, Jackie C., Emily --Jeff Ferrell - Cultural Criminology --Nias - Violence against women --Van Broeck - Cultural Defence --Parameswaran - othering --Cultural policing, policing culture --Reddy - Honor Crimes =========================================================== NOVEMBER 11 PRESENTERS: Pablo, Bobbi, Jackie B, Izzie GUIDING QUESTION: Do we NEED hate crime laws? --Mallet on collective action --Phillips on Hate Crimes --Saucier on Racial Slurs --Tibbs & The Jenna 6 =========================================================== NOVEMBER 18 TBA - Professor's choice =========================================================== November 25 - Thanksgiving =========================================================== DECEMBER 2: Gender Crime of the Week GUIDING QUESTION: What do Sartre & Kafka have to do with anything, anyway? Presenters: Pablo, Zack, Karon, Bobbi --Sartre: The Flies --Kafka: The Trial --Budig - Wage penalty for mothers --Sage Encyclopedia - Gender --Britton - Feminism in Criminology --Nagel & Johnson - Sentencing Female Felons
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