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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?
Donna Point - Debating the USA PATRIOT Act
Jenell Sutton - Domestic Violence in the United States
Danielle Shields - Supermax Prisons: The Punitive Extreme of the American Correctional System
Trever Smith - Social Networking Sites: Helps You Connect and Share with the People Not in Your Life
Wyatt Merritt - The Use of War to Profit
Craig Witt - Hispanic Immigrants and Crime: The Nonexistent Link
New!! Joe Sarpong - Juveniles, the Internet, and Cybercrime
New!! Jeremy Waller - Zero Tolerance and Zero Patience: Forgetting Forgiveness with Our Nation’s Youth
LINKS
Careers in Criminal Justice: http://www.criminaljusticeusa.com/
Criminal Justice History Resources: http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~dreveskr/cjhr.html-ssi
Course Syllabi
Spring, 2012
CRJ 409 Power points
Introduction: Myths and Realities of Delinquency
FYI: Conservative, Liberal and Radical Views of Crime
Chapter 1: History of Children and Juvenile Justice
Chapter 2: Extent of Delinquency
Chapter 3: Nature of Delinquency
Chapter 4: Youth Gangs
Chapter 5: Female Delinquency
Chapter 6: Individualistic Theories of Delinquency
Chapter 7: Sociological Theories of Delinquency
Chapter 8: Delinquency in Context
Update on Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickled and Dimed" (discussed in chapter 8): http://www.thenation.com/article/162632/turning-poverty-american-crime
Update on income inequality - see how the rich got richer on this chart: http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/pages/interactive#/?start=1980&end=2008
Update on the job market - two studies find low wages in the retail trade sector: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/nyregion/study-offers-a-look-at-new-yorks-retail-workers.html;
Chapter 9: Family and Delinquency
Chapter 10: Schools and Delinquency
Truancy and street violence are linked, Baltimore study says
Dropouts costing California $1.1 billion annually in juvenile crime costs
Chapter 11: Processing Offenders through the Juvenile Justice System
A timely study by the Sentencing Project - Collateral Consequences of Convictions for Young Offenders: http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/Collateral%20Consequences%20NACDL%202011.pdf
Chapter 12: Juvenile Prisons
Abuses reported in Mississippi training schools - report calls them "A Mississippi Gulag." Go to this web site: http://www.parentsunitedtogether.com/page78.html
Abuses at State Detention Centers (series of 3 stories)
3 in 25 juveniles in detention are sexually abused, study finds
Chapter 13: The Double Standard of Juvenile Justice
Chapter 14: Some Sensible Solutions
Martin Luther King Day Special from Democracy Now! A conversation with Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow." http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/13/on_eve_of_mlk_day_michelle