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Assignment	Due in Class	Due on WEBCT, if not completed in class
Important:	In-Class Submmissions accepted only on the Due Date	WEBCT Only, no Email File Attachments! Instructions.
Signing up for WEBCT and the course mailing list.	No in-class option, Must be done online.	Friday, February 1 by 17:00.
Force Field Analysis (see class notes for January 23).	To be done in class on Jan 23.	By 17:00 on Feb 4, if not completed in class.
Ethical Analysis	To be done in class on Jan 28.	By 17:00 on Feb 6.
Trends in Homicide	To be done in class on Jan 30.	By 17:00 on Feb 8.
Questions on Policing	To be done in class on Feb 4.	By 17:00 on Feb 11.
Trends in Imprisonment	1:20 p.m. Feb 13.	13:20 on February 13
Police Encounters with Motorists	1:20 p.m. March 4	13:20 on March 4
Articulating Policy Options	To be done in class on March 4.	13:20 on March 11.
Questions on Drugs and Race	To be done in class March 11.	13:20 on March 13.
Background to Terrorism	To be done in class March 27	13:20 on April 3.
Extra Credit Presentations to the class	Must be posted on the Discussion List by 17:00 on April 26 and presented orally to the class on April 29.	17:00 April 26. These must be posted to the Extra Credit Presentations Discussion List on this class's WEBCT site by this time.
Extra Credit Poster Presentations.	Your presentation must be posted on the Discussion List by 17:00 on April 26 and you must register for the Poster Session by 17:00 on April 26, prepare a poster and be present at the Poster Session on May 3.	17:00 April 26.  You must BOTH submit your presentation to the Extra Credit Presentations Discussion List on this class's WEBCT site and register online for the Poster Session by this time.
Research Project  This required project will be weighted as three assignments.	9:00 a.m. May 15 or at 13:20 on May 6 - if you submitted this earlier as an extra credit project, you do not need to submit it again.	9 a.m. May 15.  If you submitted this earlier as an extra credit project, you do not need to submit it again.
Ethics and Policy of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict	To be done in class on April 22 or May 1.	1:20 p.m. on May 6.

Assigned Reading.  Most readings are in Walker:  Sense and Nonsense About Crime and Drugs or White:  Terrorism:  An Introduction.  Other readings will be linked from this page.  The readings are listed for the days they will be discussed in class.  Please read them in advance and come prepared to discuss them.

Wednesday, Jan 23 -  Overview of the Course - Chapter Two in Walker
Friday, January 25 -  If you need help with the "Signing Up" assignment, you are welcome to come to my Methods of Research class in 121 Armitage at 11:15.  We will be going to the computer center for the last half of class and staying during the free period.   Most of you will be familiar with using WEBCT from the Methods course.

Monday, Jan 28 - Approaches to Ethical Analysis  -  What's So Bad About Hate? - Ethics of Terrorism and Revolution.  Is Torture Justified in the War Against Terrorism.
Wednesday, Jan 30 - Trends in Violent Crime in the United States.  Walker, Chapter One.  Blumstein, The Crime Drop in America - on electronic reserve in the Rutgers Library.  Click on "Reserve Desk," type in "Goertzel" and click on "Instructor."  Or you can go to the library and read it on paper.  We will be discussing the graphs in this paper in class, and you will need it to complete today's exercise.  It would be a good idea to print out a copy and bring it to class.
Friday, February 1 - If you still haven't completed the "Signing Up" assignment, you have another chance to join my Methods of Research Class.  We will be going over to the computer center at 12:10 to help those who have not yet completed the assignment.  Rooms 108/109 in the Business and Science Building.

Monday, Feb 4 - Police and Policing.  Chapter 5 in Walker. Zero Tolerance Policing in NYC. -  What the FBI is Doing Wrong.
Wednesday, Feb 6 - Deterrence and Imprisonment.  Chapters 6 and 7 in Walker.
Friday, Feb 8 -  Theresa will be available in BSB 108-109 12:15 to 1:20  to help anyone who needs help using Excel.

Monday, Feb 11 - Rehabilitation and Reform, Chapters 11 and 12 in Walker.
        before class, 12:15 to 1:20, Theresa will be available in BSB 108-109 to help anyone who needs help with Excel.
Wednesday, Feb 13 - Review for First Examination - Bring the Walker book to class with you.  Review Questions.

Monday, Feb 18 - First Examination -
Wednesday, Feb 20 -  Review of Questions from the First Exam - Questions will be reviewed on the screen, not returned, since they may be reused on the final.  The Drug Problem, Chapter 13 in Walker.

Monday, Feb 25  Performance Measures of Effectiveness. manuscript pages 1-27, which are pages 11-36 in the pdf file.  If you want to print this, it is best to use a color printer since the graphics depend on color.  If you have trouble printing to a laser printer, see if you can configure the printer for 300 dots per inch instead of 600.

Wednesday, Feb 27 -  Viewing of excerpts from Reefer Madness.   Blumstein, "Tables" on electronic reserve in the library. Staying Clean. Chapter V:  Conclusions from the Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse (1973).  More Reefer Madness.

Monday, Mar 4 -  Debating Drug Prohibition.  Thinking About Drug Legalization.   Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization.  James Q. Wilson, "Against the Legalization of Drugs," Commentary, February 1990, pp. 21-28, to be placed on Electronic Reserve at the Library.  The "War on Drugs":  A Continuation of the War on the African-American Family.  Drive Through Weed.

Wednesday, Mar 6  Race, Drugs 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." Racial Profiling.  Readings:  (1) Profiling and the Drug War.   (2)   Driving While Black - begin reading with the section labeled "The Data Are Irrefutable."  (3) Contacts Between the Police and the Public:  Findings from the 1999 National Survey.  To open this report, go to the BJS Site for the Survey and click on Acrobat File (451K).  Please read manuscript pages 1 to 2 and 12 to 17.  In the PDF file this corresponds to pages 6 to 7 and 17 to 22.

Monday, Mar 11 - Review for Second Midterm.
Wednesday, Mar 13 - Second Examination - results will be posted by friday;  an announcement will be sent to the mlist when they are ready.

Spring Break, March 18-22

Monday, Mar 25 - Last Day to Drop Courses -  "The Criminology of Terrorism"  Reading:  Jonathan White, Terrorism, 3rd edition, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4.
Wednesday, Mar 27 - "Essential Background on Terrorism"  Reading: White, chapters 5, 6, 7, 8.

Monday, Apr 1 - "International Terrorism Other Than the Middle East"  White, Chapters 11, 12
Wednesday, Apr 3  "Middle Eastern Terrorism"  White, Chapters 9, 10.  Review Questions for the Third Examination.

Monday, Apr 8 - Video:  Faces of the Enemy.  Preregistration begins:  see Department Newsletter.
Wednesday, Apr 10 -  Third Examination - White, chapters 1 to 12 and materials covered in the class notes and in Terrorist Organizations and Motivations.  Review Questions.

Monday, Apr 15 -  Discussion of third exam.  Grades Here.  Discussion of Research Project Assignment.  September 11 as a Turning Point in History (Power Point Presentation).
Wednesday, Apr 17 - Terrorism in the United States.  Reading:  Chapters 13 and 14 in White, Terrorism:  An Introduction.

The Business and Science Building labs will be open extended hours for the last 3 Sundays of the semester (April 21,
April 28 and May 5) from 9am to 10pm

Monday, Apr 22 - Issues and Policy in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict. In-class exercise.  Readings included in class notes.
Wednesday, Apr 24 - Civil Liberties. Terrorism and Modern Policing.  White, Chapters 15, 16 and 17.
Friday, April 26.  Help with Power Point available in BSB 117:  11:15 to 12:30.

Monday, April 29 -  Reports of Student Research
Bulletin:  Bob Wood has extended the deadline for signing up for Poster Session presentations to 5 p.m. Monday, April 29.  I will give extra credit for any posters that are registered by this deadline.
Wednesday, May 1 - Reports of Student Research - review for fourth examination.  Time to complete the in-class exercise begun on May 22.
Friday, May 3, Undergraduate Research Poster Session - extra credit for participation.

Monday, May 6 -  Fourth Examination - will include essay questions.  The fourth exam will cover materials since the third exam, including: Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 in White, material covered in class, including student presentations, and material in Part Four of the Class Notes.

Wednesday, May 15, 9 a.m. - Final Examination - optional if you complete all four midterms.  The final will have multiple choice and short answer items and will cover the entire semester.  To review, you will find it helpful to go over the four tests we had during the semester.  The test items are here.