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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?

 

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Criminal Justice History Resources

http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~dreveskr/cjhr.html-ssi

 

COURSE SYLLABI, FALL, 2008

CRJ 155 Syllabus

 

CRJ 405 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:

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 

 

CRJ 409 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

       Required reading:  

       Ex Parte Crouse

       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

          Nature of Delinquency

          Measuring Delinquency

          Youth Gangs

          Theories of Crime

          Female Delinquency

         Girls and Violence: Myths and Reality  

         Delinquency in Context 

         Family and Delinquency

         Schools and Delinquency

         Processing Offenders through the Juvenile Justice System

         Juvenile Prisons

         The Double Standard of Juvenile Justice

         Some Sensible Solutions

 

 

 

CRJ 705

Midterm exam study guide

 

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