UNLV STUDENT'S PAGE
New!!! Graduate Student Research Papers
Noelle Herring - Do you want Justice with that? A look at the McDonaldization and privatization of the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Debby Cochrane - Megan’s Law: Is it Harmful or Helpful to Juvenile Sex Offenders?
Careers in Criminal
Justice link
http://www.criminaljusticeusa.com/
Criminal Justice History Resources
http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~dreveskr/cjhr.html-ssi
COURSE SYLLABI, FALL, 2008
CRJ 155 Syllabus
Read the following for the film "The Fire This Time":
The Fire This Time
- click here for notes;
a follow-up story:
Witness to '69 UCLA shootings
speaks out
Another related story:
Urban renewal project in L.A.
begets blight instead
Suggested reading: Supreme Court finds history is a matter of opinions
CRJ 405 Power Points
Introduction - History from a Critical Perspective
Chapter 1 Development of Criminal Law
Chapter 2 Historical Overview of American Policing
Chapter 3 The Courts
Related stories: Supreme Court & Apartheid Victims
Chapter 4 Incarceration
Chapter 5 Juvenile Justice
Chapter 6 Women & the CJ System
Chapter 7 - Crime Control Industry
Chapter 8 - Where Do We Go From Here
Read the following for the film "The Fire This Time":
The Fire This Time
- click here for notes;
a follow-up story:
Witness to '69 UCLA shootings
speaks out
Another related story:
Urban renewal project in L.A.
begets blight instead
Required reading:
Supplemental readings:
See illustration of the use of maps to plot crime locations:
Jump in homicides a vexing challenge for LAPD brass
New!! Problems continue for the California Youth Authority: Youth advocates urge that a receiver take over the system
New!! How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
New!! Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Why do politicians and law enforcement chiefs continue to say youth
crime is on the rise when it is not? Read this:
A Kiddie Crime
Epidemic? Hardly
Los Angeles County Youth Crime Trends
Challenging lies about youth, an interview with Mike Males
Review of "See Jane Hit" by Mike Male: See Jane Hit
Capitalism 101 on the streets of LA: Federal Inmate Accused of Directing LA Drug Sales
Follow-up story: L.A. Gang Members Are Fewer but Resilient
Supplement for chapter 8: 75% of American Workers Don't Have Decent Wages and Benefits
Grieving mother hopes motion for mercy will prevail
A spanking ban: are we gonna get it?
No, as indicated in these two
stories:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778260/posts; http://cbs5.com/local/spanking.ban.california.2.451523.html
In re Gault - the complete story
An incredible expose of schooling: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/index.htm
CRJ 409 Power points
Myths and Realities of Delinquency (first lecture)
History of Children and Juvenile Justice
Girls and Violence: Myths and Reality
Processing Offenders through the Juvenile Justice System
The Double Standard of Juvenile Justice
INTERNSHIPS