GE 0060 - Spring 07
Sequence of Topics and Readings
DATE OF LAST UPDATE: 1/16/07
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. These readings from from different places. A code goes
with each reading or assignment. Here are the codes
e = e-reserve
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 Date | Topics / Readings DUE on this week |
| 1/22 |
1/16 - Spring Semester begins TOPIC Introduction. Most asked questions about the syllabus. Academic honesty and dishonesty. Why this is important. How the different class links work. Completing the class opinions questionnaire: what and why. Class norms: How do we talk to one another? How do we listen to one another? Why this is important. Introduction to three major data types: words, numbers, maps Introduction: The U.S. Decennial Census - How it Works from 1790 - 2000 Introduction: Different Ways to Map Philadelphia: Census Tracts, Police Districts, PHMC Neighborhoods, and the MAUP Introduction to the Demographic Dimensions of Community: 1920 & 1940 Census Tracts and Status; Comparing and Contrasting two ways to organize tracts (quartile vs. standard deviation) Introduction to Key Resources: Background on the National Commission for Law Observance and Enforcement EXERCISE Whaddya know: completing a map of Philadelphia. Writing a conclusion based on the delinquency and the status maps |
| 1/29 |
TOPIC I Results on class norms Finishing Course Introduction: Content and Skills Introduction to Choropleth maps and trendline charts: Contextualizing Philadelphia Population: Relative to Whole State, Relative to Suburbs Completing the class opinions questionnaire: what and why. II Black: what does it mean to say law is a quantitative variable? Law varies in quantity Black: What is stratification (status variation): what kind of indicators are available? III Back to maps Map: Median rentals S&M Map 32 Point map: Delinquents in Phila., 1926-1928 Comparing across areas: Constructing Rates Map: Delinquency Rates IV What is the relationship between these two attributes: Delinquency Rate and Status (as indicated by Median Rental)? EXERCISE Exercise: Interpreting a map series Exercise and discussion: rating applications of law READING (e) Dudden, A. P. (1982). The City embraces 'normalcy': 1919 - 1929. In R. F. Weigley (Ed.), Philadelphia: A 300 Year History (pp. 566-600). New York: W.W. Norton.. READ ONLY 56-58 (b) Black pp 1 - 37 (Stratification) (Bb) Shaw, C. R., & McKay, H. D. (1942). Juvenile delinquency in urban areas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 8: Philadelphia MOVIE INTRO: "Dead end" (1937) |
| 2/5 |
TOPICS I. Introduction to scatterplots II Another dimension of Community: Foreign Born The attribute and the attitudes Data from Wickersham Report Examining their table Constructing a scatterplot II. Delinquency in the 1920s, and the foreign born: what do the maps show? How do we interpret? III. COMPUTER LAB TIME AL 22 Constructing 2 scatterplots of Philadelphia Delinquency Data: Delinquency and Median Rental; Delinquency and Percent (Foreign Born + Negro) Getting plot Doing write up READ: Bb) Shaw, C. R., & McKay, H. D. (1942). Juvenile delinquency in urban areas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 8: Philadelphia REREAD Bb) Shaw, C. R., & McKay, H. D. (1942). Juvenile delinquency in urban areas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 7: Differences in Social Values and Organization in Different Communities RECOMMENDED ONLY (e) NCLO&E: Report on Crime and the Foreign Born PP 1-5, 81-96 (Bb) Boisson, S. (2006). When America sent her own packing. American History, 41(4), 20-27. (RECOMMENDED ONLY) (Bb) Martinez, R., & Lee, M. R. (2000). On Immigration and Crime. In G. LaFree, R. Bursik, J. F. Short & R. B. Taylor (Eds.), Crime and Justice 2000 Volume 1: Continuities and Change. Washington: National Institute of Justice. READ 486-495 ONLY (b) Black pp 37 - 60 (morphology) (read lightly) (w) Taylor, R. B. (1994). Research methods in criminal justice. New York: McGraw Hill.pages 85-89 ONLY (RECOMMENDED ONLY) http://www.rbtaylor.net/rmcj_77_94_111_118.pdf << CLICK THERE |
| 2/12 |
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Phil Harris, Temple University. The Evolution of
Juvenile Justice; Juvenile Justice in the 1920s and 1930s and today TOPIC The Juvenile Justice System Reading: (e) Juvenile Justice, Newspaper Clippings: espec. the following pages of the pdf file: 3, 4, 7, 10,11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 (Bb) Harris, P. W., Welsh, W., & Butler, F. (2000). A Century of juvenile justice. In G. In LaFree, R. Bursik, J. F. Short & R. B. Taylor (Eds.), Crime and Justice 2000 Volume 1: Continuities and Change. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice. PAGES 259-264; 370-372; 406-410 (Bb) Mclanahan, W.S. (2004). Alive at 25: Reducing youth violence through monitoring and support. Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures. Just read to get a sense of what the program did and what it accomplished. |
| 2/19 |
TOPICS I. Prohibition enforcement 1924-1926, standing up to power, and the end of vigorous law enforcement II. Police Corruption probe 1928-1929 III Introducing the short research project Assigning Addresses from the Grand Jury Probe EXERCISE Role play simulation READ: (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. (e) Haller, M. (1985). Philadelphia bootlegging and the report of the special August grand jury. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 109(April), 215-233. |
| 2/26 |
FIELD TRIP: ARCHIVE AND HOTEL SITES National Archives and Record Administration, Mid-Atlantic Region, Archive 900 Market Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-4292 (Entrance on Chestnut Street, between 9th and 10th St.) Walking tour to Butler's last stand: The Ritz-Carlton, The Bellevue-Stratford: Affronting power and the power of place READ Following named newspaper stories (e) "Rum probers find safe deposit box"; "Directs lawless places be shut"; "Charges he was source of supplies for gangsters" in file labeled Philadelphia Grand Jury Probe - September 1-15, 1928, Newspaper Clippings "Black book lists S. Phila. police in rum shakedowns"; "Mackey calls city cleanest in U.S."; "Police condition came as heritage, Davis tells Lewis" in file labeled Philadelphia Grand Jury Probe - September 17-30, 1928, Newspaper Clippings |
| 3/5 | SPRING BREAK |
| 3/12 |
TOPICS CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF THE CORRUPTION PROBE AND
"UPWARD LAW" 1. (e) "A bootlegger and a hijacker tells how deeply the Jews are involved in the Grand Jury probe" (pp 5,6) in View or Print: Philadelphia Grand Jury Probe - Miscellaneous 1928, Newspaper Clippings 2. (e) "Men and things: Poor crop from labors of 1928 Grand Jury Probe" Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Sept. 30 193(8?) (p.15) 3. (e) "Dramatic murders set off 1928 probe" Philadelphia Evening Bulletin(?) March 18, 1951 (p. 15) All of these are in the file on e-reserve Philadelphia Grand Jury Probe - Miscellaneous 1928, Newspaper Clippings 4. REVIEW BLACK 21-29 ARCHIVE PAPER DUE THIS WEEK |
| 3/19 |
TOPIC Pressures on Police to Close Cases: From The "Third Degree" to Miranda to Sean Bell ? Excerpt from "Homicide: Life on the Streets" Season 1, Episode 1. Pembleton instructs Bayliss. EXERCISE NYT index search through Temple Library vs. NYT COMPUTER LAB EXERCISE Finding Supreme Court Rulings READ: (e) NCLO&E: Report No. 11 ("On Lawlessness in law enforcement") READ ONLY 1-38; 100-101; 113-115; 152-161 (w) U.S. Supreme Court Miranda v. Arizona (1966) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=384&invol=436 (just read up to beginning of Section I.) MOVIE INTRO: "The Wrong Man" |
| 3/26 |
TOPIC The second MOVE incident in Philadelphia DOCUMENTARY and discussion MOVE documentary provided by Urban Archives (showing: Basement of Paley, room opposite stairs) FIELD TRIP to the Urban Archive: Sanborn maps and Clipping File and Picture Index READ: (b) Black "Social control" 105-121 (e) 3 officers tell how they saved Birdie Africa (e) MOVE (e) MOVE 1978 vs 1985 |
| 4/2 |
TOPIC I More on MOVE: Black's Pespective; law vs. social control II The procedural justice perspective EXERCISE Cross tab and clustered bar chart exercise with Philadelphia Area Survey COMPUTER LAB EXERCISE READ Black, "Social Control" (105-122) (Bb) Tyler, T. R. 2004. "Enhancing police legitimacy." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 593:84-99. Getting ready for crosstabs: first 11 slides of: http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/hist661/crosstabs/default_files/frame.htm |
| 4/9 |
TOPIC Pressures on Prisons Part I: What do people want from them? Is prison helping or hurting? Or both? Changes in the last 30 years: Increasing inequality, increasing safety, or both? READ (Bb) Western, B. (2006). Punishment and inequality in America. New York: Russel Sage Foundation. Introduction (Bb) Levitt, S. D. (1996). The Effect of prison population size on crime rates: Evidence from prison overcrowding litigation. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(May), 319-351. INSTRUCTIONS: Read only introduction and conclusion and look at graphs. |
| 4/16 |
TOPIC I Prisons, Part II: Conditions, Overcrowding, and Court Intervention: Fiscal vs. Popular vs. Legal Pressures II Riots and Murder in Holmesburg and Attica III Ex offender disenfranchisement EXERCISE: NYT index Attica search, prepare summary READ 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. Sobell, H. (1975). Book Reivew: Attica - Official Report of New-York-State-Special-Commission-on-Attica. Science & Society, 39(2), 238-241. Philadelphia Inquirer Articles 1970 about Holmesburg Riot |
| 4/23 |
TOPICS I The Crime Control Complex and The Rise of the Law and Order Agenda II. Looking at changes in imprisonment rates READ: Mason, R. (2004). Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Scammon, R. M., & Wattenberg, B. J. (1970). The Real Majority. New York City: Conrad-McCann.
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| 4/30 |
LAST DAY OF SCHEDULED CLASSES 5/1, 5/2 = STUDY DAYS NOTE - REVIEW SESSION 5/2/07 - 553 GLADFELTER - 2:30 - 4:30 PM 5/3 - Exams begin TOPIC I The Crime Control Complex and the Future: Whither the pressures on policing and courts and prisons? II Review for final READ: (a) Mosley, R. (2001). Futureland, New York: Warner. READ ONLY THE CHAPTER: "Angel Island." (b) Gilbow, S. L. 2007. "Red card." Fantasy and Science Fiction 112:120-134. RECOMMENDED ONLY (w) LaFree, G., Bursik, R.J., Short, J., and Taylor, R. B. 2000. "The Changing nature of crime in America." in Crime and Justice 2000 Volume1: Nature of Crime, Continuity and Change, edited by LaFree, Bursik, R. J., Short, J., Taylor, R. B. National Institute of Justice. http://www.rbtaylor.net/pub_lafree_et_al_2000.pdf or CLICK HERE , READ ONLY Pp. 1-8, 15-29 |
| 5/7 | Final Exam - Same time and place as usual classroom |
| 5/10 | Grades probably due |