Teaching Assistant, Sharon Walls: Ssharee@aol.com
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Syllabus. Instructor, Ted Goertzel goertzel@camden.rutgers.edu
Teaching Assistant, Sharon Walls: Ssharee@aol.com
Grades Here
Instructions for Submitting Assignments to WEBCT.
Assignments will be posted the week before they are due. Be sure to reload this page regularly.
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Due in class at 1:30 on: | Or in the WEBCT Assignment Dropbox by 12:30 p.m. on: |
| cj1.htm | Wednesday, January 24 | Wednesday, January 24 |
| cj2.htm | Monday, January 29 | Monday, January 29 |
| cj3.htm | Monday, February 5 | Monday, February 5 |
| cj4.htm | Monday, February 12 | Monday, February 12 |
| cj5.htm | Monday, February 19 | Monday, February 19 |
| cj6.htm | Monday, February 26 | Monday, February 26 |
| cj7.htm | Monday, March 5 | Monday, March 5 |
| cj8.htm | Must be submitted to WEBCT. | Friday, March 30, 5 p.m.
Late Dropbox Available Until April 6 for 90% credit. |
| cj9.htm | Wednesday, April 18. | Sunday, April 22, 11 p.m. |
| cj10.htm | Wednesday, April 25. | Wed., April 25, noon |
This Class Schedule will be modified regularly, be sure to reload the page before checking it:
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| Links are to readings and other materials to be discussed in class each day. If you can't come to class, study the readings on your own. | Jan 17 - Overview of the course. Compstat in the NYC and Philadelphia Police Departments. Distinguishing ethical and empirical issues. Reading: Approaches to Ethical Analysis. Examples are on the Jan 22 page. |
| Jan 22 - Ethical Controversies in Criminal
Justice.
Issues to be discussed in class: abortion (Abortion Perspectives, Why Abortion is Moral),The Abortion Debate: Stuck in Time, racial profiling, (Chicago gangs; NJ State Police, Practical Problems, Started with Feds, Lawsuit in Oregon); death penalty (Queens letters), drug legalization (shadow convention, Gary Johnson clip), Signs of thaw in war on drugs, prostitution, affirmative action and racial preferences, jury nullification, gun control, hate crime legislation, intergenerational sex. Governor Pataki on NY Drug Law. Reading assignments: What's So Bad About Hate? An Inside Story of Racial Bias and Denial. |
Jan 24 - Discussion of analyses written for Assignment One, due today. Data sources for Criminal Justice research to be used for Assignment Two, due on Monday. |
| Jan 29 - Review of how to make graphs in Excel (be sure to attend if you did not cover this in your Methods course). Reading: B&W, Chapter 1. Police Predators. Who's a Seminole? Mexican Prison Corruption. | Jan 31 - Reading: B&W, Chapter 2. Please bring the book with you to class. |
| Feb 5 - We will finish our discussion of B&W chapter 2 and go on to B&W Ch 5 "Patterns of Adult Homicide." | Feb 7 - Today will be an Excel workshop. I will demonstrate the use of Excel to make graphs similar to those in Chapters 2 and 5 of B&W. We will then go to BSB108/109 for those who want help working on Assignment Four. Simply find a machine and start working, Sharon and I will be around to help. "Exponential Growth" in prisons? Not really. Sample Excel File homicide.xls |
| Feb 12 - B&W Chapter 4: The Sentencing Project, "Diminishing Returns: Crime and Incarceration in the 1990s" Myths of Murder and Multiple Regression | Feb 14 - B&W, Chapter 7. Diallo verdict. ACLU graphic. Orlando Patterson. |
| Feb 19 - Surveys and Questionnaires. A Framework for Questionnaire Design. Discussion of our class surveys. An example: COMMUNITY POLICING: Community Input Into Police Policy-Making. | Feb 21 - Reading assignment: The Ethics of Research. Illustration: Protection of Human Research Subjects. - an online course at NIH. We will view a similar one required at Rutgers. Proposals For Extra Credit for attending the Eastern Sociological Society Meetings Due by 5:00 p.m. Download a Proposal here and submit it to WEBCT. |
| Feb 26 - Interviewing and Leading Focus Groups. | Feb 28 -Panel Discussion on the Death Penalty - Law 106 - 12:30 to 2:30 Free Lunch. Class will not meet in 121 Armitage. *Notes on the Forum* |
| Mar 5 - General Review for Midterm. Practice in reading tables and graphs. B & W, Chapter 9 Resources: Tronchim on the General Linear Model Statsoft on Multiple Regression. A more technical treatment of Multiple Regression | Mar 7 - Midterm Exam - Open Book Exam on interpreting Tables and Graphs in the Crime Drop book. The following are files of material covered in the review on March 5: . Answers to assignment 7. Notes on the statistics in the Crime Drop Book. Excel example of fitting beta weights to time series curves. |
| Spring Break | . * Midterm Grades Here * |
| Mar 19 - Closed Book Exam. Follow the review guide posted on March 5. | Mar 21 - Video: Address by Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico.. Work on questionnaires and planning for those wanting to do Extra Credit. |
| Mar 26 - The War on Drugs: the Official
Perspective.
The
National Drug Control Strategy: 2001 Annual Report. This
is a 191 page pdf file, we will read pages 1-35 of the document, which
is pages 7-41 of the pdf file.
Contrast: Chapter 13 from Walker, Sense and Nonsense About Crime and Drugs (to be distributed in class). |
Mar 28 - The Ethics of Drug Prohibition.
The
Josephson Institute Ethical Decision-Making Model
Marijuana Prohibiton Facts. Medical Marijuana Hotel in Santa Cruz. Hard Questions on the Drug War in Colombia. Norml policy statement. Video Debate on Drug Legalization. Notes from the Video. |
| Apr 2 Performance Measures of Effectiveness. This is a large pdf file. We will go over pages 1 to 38 in class, which is pages 11 to 48 in the pdf file. This is difficult to print, use 300 dpi. Some of the graphics may not be visible with a black and white printer. You may prefer to read this online. Question: how does this systems analysis approach compare to the more ethnographic approach in: "The Rise and Decline of Hard Drugs, Drug Markets, and Violence in Inner-City New York," Chapter 6 in The Crime Drop in America. Also: Why is crack use declining, a NY Times special report. Some proposals for class discussion. | Apr 4  Drug
Prohibition as a social
movement. Video: Reefer
Madness. Chapter
V: Conclusions from the Report of the National Commission on Marihuana
and Drug Abuse (1973). More
Reefer Madness.
Interviewing Guidelines. |
| Apr 9 - Conclusion of Reefer Madness, discussion of social movements theories. | Apr 11 - A
video on the Salem
Witch Trials. Salem
Witch Trials as Fact and Symbol. National Geographic online
witch trial experience. Parallel
with the modern cruasde against ritual
child abuse. Enforcement
of Cohabitation Laws in New Mexico. How about a crusade against
cell
phones in cars? Or smoking in bars? Death
to Blasphemers. |
Apr 16 - "Causes
of Urban Unrest" . "The
Kerner Commission and the Failed Legacy of Liberal Social Policy".
"Kerner Commission
30 years later". Cincinnati;
LA
1992 "Rodney King: Riots." Los
Angeles Police Department - LA
Times story on routine beatings by police. A followup
on the Los Angeles case. Camden
riots in 1971. Effects
on the city.  |
Apr 18 Today we will contrast
two perspectives on Race and Crime, Jerome Miller, "From
Social Safety Net to Dragnet: African American Males in the Criminal Justice
System", and John Dilulio, 
"My Black Crime Problem: And Ours," John DiIlulio. We will view an excerpt from Cops in the Hood: Police officers patrol South Central Los Angeles (MSNBC) and look at recent race and crime issues. NY Times Editorial. Prison Rape: A Racial Issue? Homicide Victimization by Race. Racial profiling, April 2001 News. (Chicago gangs; NJ State Police, Practical Problems, "inside story, " Started with Feds, Lawsuit in Oregon). If we have time, we will go on to discuss Affirmative Action, otherwise we will do that next week. |
Apr 23 Today we will discuss the application
of ethical
principles to riot
situations, affirmative action, reparations for slavery (here are Anti.and
Pro. statements), capital punishment and perhaps other issues.
We discussed this literature on affirmative action on April 18: Should Affirmative Action be Ended? Or Defended? What are the ethical and empirical issues? John Lott's Article on Affirmative Action in Police Hiring. In University admissions: University of Michigan case. John McWhorter on Berkeley. Affirmative Action in the NYC Police Dept. And in Boston. ( Boston and NYC Stories on this Server.) |
Apr 25 - Discussion of ethical
analysis worksheets. Begin review
for the final. Yesterday's Supreme Court Decsion: Victims
Passionately Split Divided
Justices Back Full Arrests on Minor Charges
NJ State Police discontinue stopping cars on turnpike? See last item in NJ State Police. Victims Passionately Split on Whether to Execute Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City Bombings. Friday, April 27: The third-annual Undergraduate Research Poster Session, co-sponsored with the Department of Psychology, will be held on Friday, April 27, in the Multi Purpose Room. The event includes a free lunch. All are welcome! |
| Apr 30 Review for Final. Latest news in the Diallo Case (at end of file). When the police shoot, who's counting? Anyone wanting extra credit for a poster must bring it to class today. Grading information here. | Review
Session May 8 (Tuesday) 1 p.m.
FINAL EXAM May 9 (WED) 9 a.m. |
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I) The Death
Penalty: Pros & Cons, Implications for Restorative Justice, Wednesday,
February
28th, 12:30-2:30pm, Law Room
106, All Are Welcome. Lunch Provided! Panel Speakers: Judge John J.
Gibbons, Former Chief Judge;
Richard Zimmer, Former U.S. Congressman; Jack Callahan, Education
Chair, New Jerseyans for a
Death Penalty Moratorium; Dr. Chris Fitter, Associate Prof., Amnesty
International Representative;
Lorry Post, Executive Director, New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty
Moratorium, Parent of murder
victim. Sponsored by: Rutgers Forum for Policy Research, Association
for Public Interest Law, Amnesty
International, Catholic Campus Ministry.
Extra Credit Opportunity: Prepare a poster for the Undergraduate Poster Session Scheduled for April 27 at noon. To do a Poster you should:
Assignments will be posted as html files the
week before they are due. Follow theinstructions in each assignment.
If you are coming to class, you may type or clearly hand write your assignment
and bring it with you. If you are unable to come to class, or if
you prefer digital submission, you may submit your assignment digitallyby
12:30 p.m. on the due date to the Assignment Dropbox on our class
WEBCT
site. This deadline is intended to give me time to look at them before
class. Digital assignments may be shared with the class, even if
you are not present. The WEBCT software will not accept assignments
after they are due. Late assignments will be accepted only in
cases of force
majeure and must be brought in person to the instructor's
office during posted office hours within one week of the due date.
Office hours are 9 to 11 MWF and 2:45 to 3:30 MW in 325 Armitage.
You should allow time to answer questions about your work. Assignments
will not be accepted by email, postal mail, fax, slid under
my office door or in my mailbox.When submitting typed
homework assignments to WEBCT for this course, it is OK to use dos text
format instead of html. This will be convenient for any of you who
do not have html editors on your home computers. This works as long
as you do not have any hyperlinks or other special formatting in your file,
which is generally the case in this course. This is not for spreadsheet
assignments which should be kept in the Excel *.xls format. Any word
processor can save files in dos text format. When you are ready to
save your file, click on "save as" and then on "save as type." Select
a format with the *.txt file extension. If available, choose a form
of *.txt file "with line breaks." (*.txt files require a hard return
at the end of each line to work properly). When you upload
these files to WEBCT, click on "Browse" then change the "file type"
to *.txt." Otherwise you won't be able to find your files.