Violence, Crime and Justice

Fall 1999

 Sequence of Topics and Readings

Click in right column to go to questions for that week.

NOTE:

• this is subject to change, as time and class needs dictate.
  

• paper schedules are tentative at this point.
  
• Be sure to check back for changes.
  
• You want to have these readings completed by the BEGINNING of the week listed

WEEK OF	TOPIC AND READING	QUESTIONS
9/7	Lane, Murder in America Introduction (1-9) SKIP Ch 1 British Background Ch. 3 ( 1776-1829) Ch. 4 (1829-1865)	CLICK
9/13	Lane Ch. 5 (1865-1917) Ch. 6 (1917-1941)	CLICK
9/20	LaFree, Chs 1, 2, 3, 4 (1-69) chapter 5 moved to next wk.	CLICK
9/27	LaFree, Chs. 5, 6 (70-113), Urban riots and song lyrics of the time Zappa 's riot song about Watts "Trouble comin every day," and a background interview and another background interview Sly and the Family Stone background on the group - click on "Biography" the song: "Don't burn, baby, burn" http://www.slyfamstone.com/music.htm background on the riots by Norman Coombs, from The Black Experience in America: http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh/bx/bx12a.html recommended: a paper by Clark McPhail on current thinking about riots http://www.soc.uiuc.edu/faculty/mcphail/Frwrds.html	CLICK
10/4	LaFree, Chs. 7, 8 (114-151)	CLICK
10/11	Bok, Mayhem INTRO AND PART I AND 2 (1-90)	CLICK
10/18	Bok part 3 10/22: in-class exam	CLICK
10/25	Bok part 4	CLICK
11/1	Wright and Decker, Armed Robbers in Action pp. 1-60	CLICK
11/8	Wright and Decker, pp 61-140
11/15	Dees 1-110
11/22	Dees 1-110
11/29	Dees 1-110 article on geographical correlates of militia activity (handout)
12/6	THIS WEEK THERE IS CLASS ON MONDAY (12/6) AND FRIDAY (12/10) BUT NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY (12/8)