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Syllabus
Course Objectives: • Students will be able to describe their own relationship to significant issues of justice
Policies and Grades Class
policies are available from Handouts PART 1: Looking Backwards from the Present: Popular Culture and the History of Forensic Science CLASS 1: Tuesday, 1/28 assigned writing due 1/30 by blackboard by the start of classtime: questions on video
Preview from The Real CSI: FRONTLINE (entire film here; preview not sufficient for assignment ) CLASS 2: Thurday, 1/30 Short Lecture: Marshaling textual evidence effectively to support an argument: Claim/Evidence/Warrant assigned reading due 2/04: Simon Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Harvard, 2001), Part 1, Chapter 8, “Dazzling Demonstrations and Easy Assumptions” (pp. 190 - 199; stop at the word "clerks" on p. 199) Available on our blackboard site in the "readings" folder. assigned writing due 2/04 by blackboard by the start of classtime: questions on Suspect Identities reading & introduction to Claim/Evidence/Warrant and accompanying exercises. (Don't stop until you see "End of Assignment") Note that students who get a 90/100 or above on this hw and the next will NOT have to do the final paper and will also not have to attend class on 5/15 nor will they have to do the otherwise mandatory writing center visit the week of 3/11. Students who receive less than an 82/100 on this homework will have to do additional exercises until they demonstrate competency.
CLASS 3: Tuesday, 2/04 assigned reading due 2/06: Simon Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Harvard, 2001), Part 2, Chapter 8, “Dazzling Demonstrations and Easy Assumptions” (pp. 199 - 216) Available on our blackboard site . assigned writing due 2/06 by blackboard by the start of classtime: second set of questions and cl/ev/wa exercises (hw 3) CLASS 4: Thursday, 2/06 Evidence chart of quotations and details from The Real CSI and Simon Cole's Suspect Identities readings; you will use this evidence chart in your upcoming essay (hw 5). I will provide feedback on your charts by Wed 2/12 at 8 pm. (HW 4)
CLASS 5: Tuesday, 2/11 PART 2: Popular Culture and The Making of Criminal Justice Institutions 1920 - 1940
excerpts from Scarface: Origins of a Hip Hop Classic
2/18 (NO CLASS)
assigned viewing: Scarface (1932) (before you choose watch Scarface be sure to read the quick viewers' guide--see link to the right)
Trailer for Little Caesar (1931)
Thursday 2/20
assigned writing due 2/25 by blackboard at the start of classtime: evidence chart (HW 7)
assigned writing due 2/27 by blackboard by the start of classtime: Scarface paper (HW 8) Prof. Umbach will lead an optional walking tour of Little Italy and Chinatown to discuss modern-day organized crime's origins in the streets of these two neighborhoods. The trip is free but open
PART 3: Popular Culture and The Chicago School of Criminology CLASS 7: Thursday 2/27
assigned writing due 3/04: Questions regarding Criminology Goes to the Movies and Crime and the Slums. (HW 9) CLASS 8: Tuesday 3/04 In class: open-note quiz on lecture from 2/27 assigned viewing due 3/06: Dead End (1937) See here about how to watch films. YOU NEED WATCH ONLY THE FIRST 45 MINUTES of DEAD END TO WRITE THE PAPER. The film is considered a classic, however, so you may well end up watching all of it.
Trailer from Dead End (THIS IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR WRITING THE PAPER)
CLASS 9: Thursday 3/06
SCHEDULING WRITING CENTER VISITS: I WILL BRING IN A SCHEDULING SHEET FROM THE WRITING CENTER TO CLASS SO THAT YOU CAN RESERVE TIME AT THE CENTER TO GO OVER YOUR PAPER WITH A WRITING MENTOR. YOU WILL HAVE NO CLASS ON 3/11 IN ORDER TO GIVE YOU TIME FOR THIS VISIT. Tuesday 3/11 NO CLASS (see deadline chart above) PART 5: The 1950s: Jouvenile Delinquency, Racial Integration CLASS 10: Thursday 3/13 assigned reading/writing due 3/18 by blackboard by classtime: Juvenile Delinquency in New York City research module (hw 12).
PART 4: Popular Culture, Criminology, and the Rise and Fall of the Welfare State In Class: Short Lecture on The Crisis of Urban Liberalism and the Rise of the New Right and American Popular Culture: 1960 – 1988 (there will be an open-note quiz on this lecture 3/2o) CLASS 12: Thursday 3/20
assigned viewing due 3/25: How To Make Money Selling Drugs (available on Amazon Streaming for $6.99 or Itunes) You only need to watch from 56:44 to 1:12:50 in the film. assigned reading due 3/25: Barker, The Politics of Imprisonment (Oxford, 2009), pp. 143 - 153. Available on our blackboard site in the "content" folder.
CLASS 13: Tuesday 3/25 In Class: Short Lecture, “NOTHING WORKS”: Robert Martinson and the Punitive Turn in Criminology assigned reading due next class 3/27: Rafter, Criminology Goes to the Movies, pp. 14-18.; (Note, you can skip the first paragraph on p. 14 of Criminology Goes to the Movies) pp. 41 - 43 of James Q. Wilson, Thinking About Crime (Basic Books, 1975), assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 3/27: (hw 14) CLASS 14: Thursday 3/27 assigned reading due next class 4/3: pp. 44 - 54 of Wilson, Thinking About Crime; pp. 259-260 of Wilson, Thinking About Crime. On p. 259 of Thinking About Crime, start at the last paragraph on that page that begins with "Throughout all of this...") If you want to do the extra-credit question, read Cullen et al, Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences (Sage, 2012) pp. 111-114. assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 4/3: (hw 15)
CLASS 15: Tuesday 4/1 assigned viewing due 4/3: Dirty Harry (1971) We will start this film in class
Trailer from Dirty Harry (1971) CLASS 16: Thursday 4/3 assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 4/8: Dirty Harry essay (hw 16) This is the first of three short/long papers. For these three papers, you must do the "long" (2.5 pages) version of one of the three and the "short" (2 paragraphs) version for the other two. Which papers you do "long" and which you do "short," however, is up to you.
CLASS 17: Tuesday 4/8 assigned reading due next class 4/10: Torrey, American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (Oxford, 2014) pp. 22-25; 44-49 available on our Blackboard site. assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 4/10: questions (HW 17)
CLASS 18: Thurday 4/10 assigned writing due 4/23: Torrey, American Psychosis, 86, 96 - 113 assigned writing due bd by 12:15 through Blackboard on 4/23 (that's wednesday not Tuesday): questions (HW 18)
Spring Break !
Al Capone Fishing In Palm Beach, Florida (no date) CLASS 19: Tuesday 4/22 NO CLASS, BUT HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Trailer (1975)
CLASS 19: Thursday 4/24 assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 4/29: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest essay (hw 19) This is the second of three short/long papers. For these three papers, you must do the "long" (2.5 pages) version of one of the three and the "short" (2 paragraphs) version for the other two. Which papers you do "long" and which you do "short," however, is up to you.
PART 5: Popular Culture, the Mafia-mystique, and Ethnicity in the 1970s CLASS 20: Tuesday 4/29 assigned reading due 5/1: Kenney, "Myths and Organized Crime" from Organized Crime In America (Wadsworth, 1995) pp. 230 - 250 (note that I've given you the full chapter, but you do NOT need to read pp. 250 - 255) Available on our blackboard site. assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 5/1: questions (hw 20)
Joseph Michael "Joe Cargo" Valachi Testifiying in October 1963 before the McClellanPermanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations CLASS 21: Thursday 5/1 assigned reading due 5/06: p. 69 - 85 Santopietro, The Godfather Effect (St. Martin's, 2012) available on our blackboard site. assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 5/06: questions (hw 21)
The Godfather Part II Trailer (1974) CLASS 22: Tuesday 5/6
assigned viewing due 3/25: Watch either The Godfather ( 175 min, 1972) or The Godfather Part II ( 200 min, 1974). (The Godfather Part II is longer than the origianl, but somewhat easier to write about for the essay question.) Note there is an extra credit version of hw 22 if you address both films in your essay. assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 5/08: Godfather essay (hw 22) This is the third of three short/long papers. For these three papers, you must do the "long" (2.5 pages) version of one of the three and the "short" (2 paragraphs) version for the other two. Which papers you do "long" and which you do "short," however, is up to you CLASS 23: Thursday 5/8 assigned reading due 5/12: "Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?" from Dubner and Levitt, Freakonomics (William Morrow, 2005) and available on our blackboard website. assigned writing due by blackboard by classtime on 5/12: questions on Dubner and Leavitt (HW 23) CLASS 24: Tuesday 5/12 in class viewing: Episode 1, Season 1, The Wire
Excerpt from The Wire CLASS 25: Tuesday 5/15 in class viewing: Episodes 3 of The Wire assigned writing due by blackboard by 11:59 pm 5/26: (HW 24)
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only to the first 9 students who sign up for it and requires a $10 deposit--the full deposit will be returned to you when we start the trip. Details announced in class. Students who take an optional quiz at the end of the trip will receive up to an 1% extra-credit on their semester grade. TIME TBA. If more than 9 students ask to join the trip, I may be able to schedule an additional trip. 