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CRIM 4090

Special Topics in Criminology

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2021

Topics

  • This is an advanced topic criminology course summarizing the most recent research on family
  • violence and providing in-depth definitions and discussions about some of the most prevalent
  • forms of family violence. It offers a critical analysis of theory, methodology, empirical
  • scholarship, and best practices surrounding domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, parricide
  • elder abuse, stalking and sexual assault. Also, the class is on understanding the nature, causes
  • populations and experiences of victims in the criminal justice system
  • the student to topics surrounding differing types of family violence that
  • Define and identify the major types of family violence and how these issues impact
  • individuals, families, and communities over the life course
  • consequences that are relevant in studying these types of social problems
  • Produce an original piece of academic writing, including developing research questions
  • identifying relevant literature, and making structured arguments
  • Student Learning Outcomes
  • forms and extent of domestic violence
  • realities of the resources available to survivors
  • changes in the social and legal responses to domestic violence)
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  • family violence

Readings

  • Required: Gosselin, D. (2019). Heavy hands: an introduction to the crimes of family violence. Upper Saddle River: Pearson-Prentice Hall.
Fall 2015 · Special Topics in Criminology / Special Topics

Topics

  • mass incarceration as tools for maintaining social order, racial, class, and ethnic
  • conflict have become an important political tendency throughout the world. There
  • are currently more individuals confined inside penal institutions across the world
  • than in the past. The purpose of the seminar is to study the implications of these
  • transformations in punishment regimes and prison systems
  • the prison-industrial
  • complex
  • race and incarceration. The objective is to think through the political
  • nature of incarceration how penal practices are oppressive

Readings

  • Required: 1. P. Scraton and J. McCulloch, eds. The Violence of Incarceration (Routledge publishers) ISBN: 13-978-0-415-96313-8 ON RESERVE IN
  • Recommended: 1. R. Sparks, The Politics of Imprisonment.
  • Recommended: 2. Michele Foccult, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
  • Recommended: 3. Julia Sudbury, Global Lockdown.
  • Recommended: 4. Jeffrey Ross edited, The Globalization of Supermax Prisons
  • Recommended: 5. R. J. Simon & Christian A De Waal, Prisons the World Over
  • Recommended: 6. Michael Tonry, Why Punish? How Much?
  • Recommended: 7. Craig Russel, Incarceration Around the World
  • Recommended: 8. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • Required: September 18: Theoretical Approaches to Punishment
  • Required: September 25: Rose Ricciardelli: Chapter 1
  • Required: October 2: Rose Ricciardelli: Chapter 2
  • Required: October 9: Rose Ricciardelli, Chapter 3
  • Required: October 16: Rose Ricciardelli, Chapter 4
  • Required: October 23: Rose Ricciardelli, Chapters 5 and 6
  • Required: October 30: Rose Ricciardelli, Chapter 7 and
  • Required: McCulloch: Chapter 13
  • Required: WEEK: 11 Draft Paper Presentations
  • Required: WEEK: 12 Draft Paper Presentations
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