GENED 0853/0060 - Fall 07
Sequence of Topics and Readings
DATE OF LAST UPDATE: 10/28/07
NOTE. This sequence may change. Although I will try and let
students know when this happens, you are strongly encouraged to check back
here each week well before class in order to see if there have been any
late-breaking revisions.
NOTE. The readings are listed for the week by which you will
have read them. It is the week the reading or assignment is due
--
not the week it is assigned.
NOTE. Most -- not all -- of the readings that are outside the book can
be found in folders on the Bboard site. If you have to go someplace
ELSE besides Bboard or the books, I will tell you where you can find the
readings
e = e-reserves
b = books students are expected to purchase
Bb = on course Blackboard site
w = on the web - click on link on sequence page
To see how to access e-reserves CLICK HERE
| Class Week | Topics / Readings DUE on this week |
| 1. 8/27 |
TOPIC Introduction. Most asked questions about the syllabus. Academic honesty and dishonesty. Why this is important. How the different class links work. Class norms: How do we talk to one another? How do we listen to one another? Why this is important. Ice breakers How to organize social space: Basic "dimensions" of society that Black will use: SES, center/margin, organizational direction A Short aerial history of Philadelphia Introduction to Choropleth maps and trendline charts: Contextualizing Philadelphia Population: Relative to Whole State, Relative to Suburbs EXERCISE Whaddya know: completing a map of Philadelphia. |
| 2. 9/3 |
TOPIC I Results on class norms Finishing Course Introduction: Content and Skills Completing the class opinions questionnaire: what and why. Black: what does it mean to say law is a quantitative variable? Law varies in quantity Introduction to Choropleth maps and trendline charts: Contextualizing
Philadelphia Population: Relative to Whole State, Relative to Suburbs |
| 3. 9/10 |
TOPICS Black: definition of the seriousness of the crime is a function of the relative social position of the two parties Black: Implications for: applying law downward; applying law upward; applying law between equal status parties Examples from the old days: Downward law is easier than upward law Butler, 1924-1926 READ: (Bb) Schmidt, H. (1987). Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press. Chapter 11: "Smashing crime and vice" (144-160) (Bb) Baldwin, F. D. (1960). Smedley D. Butler and prohibition enforcement in Philadelphia 1924-1925. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LXXXIV(July), 352-368. |
| 4. 9/17 |
Black: Downward, upward, and sideways law: Examples from
yesterday and today Upward law: Butler takes on the big hotels Upward law: Philadelphia Police Corruption Probe, 1928 Explain paper 1 READ |
| 5. 9/24 |
TOPICS Black: Upward law: the difficulties: organizational direction Philadelphia Police Corruption Probe, 1928 Philadelphia Police Corruption, 1980s Philadelphia Police 39th District Corruption Probe, 1995-1996 READ Black, 92-97 Dombrink, J. (1988). The Touchables: Vice and police corruption in the 1980s. Law and Contemporary Problems, 51(1), 201-232 - just read section on Philadelphia PD - pp. 209-215 (Bb) Slobodzian, J. A. (March 1, 1995). 5 City officers indicted on corruption charges. Philadelphia Inquirer p. A1. (Bb) Editorial (December 8, 1995). The Right thing: City Council did it in voting for an independent police probe, now the Mayor needs to follow suit. Philadelphia Inquirer p. A26. (Bb) Jones, R. & Fazlollah, M. (April 4, 1996). Some major events of corruption probe. Philadelphia Inquirer p. B6 PAPER 1 DUE |
| 6. 10/1 |
Black's horizontal dimension: center <==> margin -
connections to race/ethnicity/foreign born How are persons of color/foreigners/immigrants treated? Why? The Wickersham Commission, 1931: orientation The Wickersham Commission: Connections between presence of foreign born and crime Understanding the construction of rates READ Black 49-60 National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (1931). "Crime and the Foreign Born." Washington: Government Printing Office read only p. 91-111 file:nclo&e_foreign_born_part_2.pdf RECOMMENDED READ The Courts and The Haddonfield 12 (Bb) Giordano, R. (June 23, 2007). Probation for six whose party trashed house. Philadelphia Inquirer p. A1. (Bb) Kinney, M.Y. (August 18, 2007). A Blackout on truth in Haddonfield. Philadelphia Inquirer. EXERCISES: Constructing rates Interpreting the Wickersham Commission's ecological data: Interpreting a Scatterplot MOVIE: "The Wrong Man" : Manny Balustrero |
| 7. 10/8 |
More on Black's Horizontal Dimension Summary from 1931 Relevance of the Hazleton experience Protecting those who are foreign born: Miranda v. Arizona READ National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (1931). "Crime and the Foreign Born." Letter of transmittal and summary. Washington: Government Printing Office file=nclo&e_foreign_born_transmittal.pdf Worden, A., and Cattabiano, M.F. (July 27, 2007). "Court voids Hazleton law." Philadelphia Inquirer p. A1. file=phila_inq_hazleton_20070727.pdf Matzam, M.
(July 27, 2007). "Chatter but no sense of closure."
Philadelphia Inquirer (w) U.S. Supreme Court Miranda v. Arizona (1966) RECOMMENDED Buchanan, S., and Holthouse, D. (August 28, 2006).
"Locked and loaded." The Nation. |
| 8. 10/15 |
Centrifugal law and radial distance Power directed toward the margins: Police, foreign born, and populations of color: Then and now Excerpt from "Homicide: Life on the Streets" Season 1, Episode 1. Pembleton instructs Bayliss. Police Brutality Charges against PPD: 1979. Michael Nutter's proposed "martial law" READ NCLO&E. (1931) "Report on lawlessness in law enforcement." Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 31-27, 113-115 ("Philadelphia), 152-155 ("Conclusions"). Rawls, W. (April 15, 1979). "Philadelphia police face U.S. inquiry on brutality." New York Times p. A16. file=ppd_brutality_nyt_19790415 Taubman, P. (August 13, 1979). "Calls brutality systematic against all groups." New York Times. p. A1. file=ppd_brutality_nyt_19790813.pdf Richman, A. (October 31, 1979). "Philadelphia police upheld on U.S. suit." New York Times p. A1. file=ppd_brutality_nyt_19791031 "The Nutter plan for safety now." pp 1 - 5 only file=michael_nutter_safety_now_Latest.pdf RECOMMENDED: "Nutter announces bold plan to fight violent crime" Nutter for Mayor Campaign, January 17, 2007 file=michael_nutter_press_release_20070117 EXERCISE: Your reactions to Nutter |
| 9. 10/22 |
TOPIC Centrifugal law and radial distance MOVE I in Philadelphia: 1978 MOVE II in Philadelphia: 1985 Temple University's Urban Archive DOCUMENTARY and discussion MOVE documentary provided by Urban Archives (showing: Basement of Paley, room opposite stairs) READ: Ramona Africa (April 17, 2004). "Who do you call when the police are the problem?" Typescript of speech fi = MOVE-Ramona_Africa17apr04.pdf (Note: Ramona Africa was a young child when Move-2 took place in 1985.)
Moore, M. T. (May 11, 2005). "1985 bombing in
Philadelphia still unsettled." USA Today. Find this article at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-05-11-philadelphia-bombing_x.htm
Small, B. (1985). MOVE 1978 vs. 1985. Typescript. Temple University
Urban Archives. Philadelphia. |
| 10. 10/29 |
TOPIC Finishing up on MOVE Centrifugal law, radial distance, prisons, and prison riots Holmesburg Prison riot, 1970 Attica Prison riot, 1971 The Public's view of rioters at Attica READ Holmesburg Riot: read all articles including: Eisen, E., and Lintz, J.S. (July 5, 1970). "80 inmates, 25 guards injured as 400 riot at Holmesburg." Philadelphia Inquirer p. A1. file=holmesburg_riot_philly.pdf Andrulis, D. P., Iscoe, I., & Scherwitz, L. (1976). Community Attitudes toward Attica Prison Riot - Mini-Study. American Journal of Community Psychology, 4(2), 189-194. Fazlollah, M. (January 26, 2007)
Judge: Clean up city jails: His ruling found conditions offend
constitutional rights. Philadelphia Inquirer. Sobell, H. (1975). Book Review: Attica - Official Report of New-York-State-Special-Commission-on-Attica. Science & Society, 39(2), 238-241. |
| 11. 11/5 |
TOPIC What is social control? How do law and social control connect? The broader historical context: The rise of the law and order agenda in the U.S. and changing pressures on justice agencies READ Black, "Social Control" (105-122) Page, B. I., & Shapiro, R. Y. (1992). The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in American's Policy Preferences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp 90-97 (Bb) Scammon, R. M., & Wattenberg, B. J. (1970). The Real Majority. New York City: Conrad-McCann. pp 35-44. RECOMMENDED ONLY (Bb)
Mason, R. (2004). Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp 5-36 |
| 12. 11/12 |
TOPIC The rise of the law and order agenda and changing imprisonment rates Prisoners beyond prisons: ex felon disenfranchisement EXERCISE: Prevalence rates READ Bonczar, T.P. (2003). "Prevalence of imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001." Washington: Bureau of Justice Statistics file=bonczar_bjs_pris_rates_1974_2001.pdf NOTE: May show "Attica" (not sure) |
| 13. 11/19 |
TOPIC If justice agencies are acting like this, how do people feel about justice agencies? Race, and confidence in the criminal justice system Can procedural justice improve things? Is Tyler right or is Black right? Where are we going: The future of justice agencies in light of expected changes Working through and connecting some threads: survival rates (aging of population), video transmission technology, rise of law and order agenda, guns EXERCISE: Where do you think we are going? Specific threads assigned to specific groups READ (Bb) Brin, D. (1990). Earth [2040]. New York: Bantam. pp. 100-120. NOTE: Source used for demographic modeling: Lee, R. D., and Carter, L.R. (1992). Modeling and Forecasting U. S. Mortality. Journal of the American Statistical Association 87: (No. 419),. 659-671, Tables 4, 5. |
| 14. 11/26 |
TOPICS The past and the future: Holmesburg, "acres of skin," Prisons and civil liberties Short group exercises and reporting out: future threads READ: (B) Mosley, R. (2001). Futureland, New York: Warner. READ ONLY THE CHAPTER: "Angel Island." (Bb) (November 26, 1979) "Drug tests on prisoners in Pennsylvania reported" New York Times (Bb) (January 18, 1981) "Inmates in 60's test of a poison sought." New York Times |
| 12/3 |
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5 IS THE LAST SCHEDULED DAY OF
CLASSES DEC. 6 AND DEC. 7 ARE STUDY DAYS - FINAL EXAMS START DEC. 8 TUESDAY 12/4 = last regularly scheduled class. THE CUMULATIVE FINAL FOR THIS COURSE IS Thursday 12/13 8:30 - 10:30 AM TOPIC Post-test: earn extra credit In class exercise: looking at data on race and confidence
RECOMMENDED ONLY |