| INTRODUCTIONS |
| Week 1 |
| Tuesday, February 1st – Introductions Review our class website Read course syllabus and the basic definition of OER Thursday, February 3rd – Criminology Read pages 1-6 of Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (excerpts emailed to students) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 2 |
| Tuesday, February 8th – NO CLASS (Hunter Friday schedule) NA Thursday, February 10th – What is “crime”? Read Articulation of Liberation Criminologies (OA) Read Ch 3 of Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (excerpts emailed to students) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| PART 1: THEORIES OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT |
| Week 3 |
| Tuesday, February 15th – Early Theories of Crime & Individual Theories Read Chapter Sections 5.1 to 5.7 from OO (OA) Thursday, February 17th – Individual Theories (continued) Read revisit of Lombroso, Rafter (2005) (OA) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 4 |
| Tuesday, February 22nd – Structural Theories of Crime Read Chapter Section 5.9 from OO (OA) Thursday, February 24th – Social Structure and Anomie Read Social Structure & Anomie, Robert Merton (1938) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 5 |
| Tuesday, March 1 – Social Disorganization Read Chapter Section 5.8 from OO (OA) Read “Broken Windows” The Atlantic, Kelling & Wilson (1982) Thursday, March 3 – Labeling Theory & Moral Panics Read Section 4.2 form OO (OA) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 6 |
| Tuesday, March 8 – A Return to the Individual Read first half of chapter: Why psychosocial criminology?, Gadd et al. (2007) Thursday, March 10 – A Return to the Individual (continued) Read second half of chapter: Why psychosocial criminology?, Gadd et al. (2007) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 7 |
| Tuesday, March 15 – Examples of Integrated Theories (Learning Theories) Read Section 5.10 from OO (OA) Thursday, March 17 – Examples of Integrated Theories (Control Theories) Read Section 5.11 from OO (OA) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 8 |
| Tuesday, March 22nd – Power & Punishment Read Section 1.4 from OO (OA) Thursday, March 24th – Power & Punishment (continued) Read Vox Article on Jaywalking history (2015) Read Buzzfeed Article on White Collar Crime (2020) Read Chicago Sun Times Article on Criminalization of Blackness (2020) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 9 |
| Tuesday, March 29th – Critical Criminology Read OpenLearn, Introduction to Critical Criminology, selected sections (read from the “development of critical criminology” to “Critical analysis: Two examples”) (OA) Read “Intersectional Criminology,” Potter (2013) (OA) Thursday, March 31st – Reform & Abolition Approaches Read Chapter 1 of Are Prisons Obsolete?, Davis (2003) Listen to Beyond Prisons Podcast: A World Without Police, Geo Maher Read NYTimes Op-ed on Reckoning with Violence (2019) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 10 |
| Tuesday, April 5th – Review for Theory Exam None! Study for your exam. Thursday, April 7th –Theory Exam No in-person class. Complete open-book, open-note theory exam on Blackboard. Optional Assignment Due: Make-up Reading Response (of your choice), post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 11 |
| Tuesday, April 12th – Class canceled No in-person class. Enjoy the break! Thursday, April 14th –Introduction to Part II & Review Final Project Assignment Read final project instructions Optional Assignment Due: Make-up Reading Response (of your choice), post to Blackboard by Sunday April 24 (end of Spring Break) at 11:59 PM |
| Spring Break: April 15-22 (NO CLASS) Optional Assignment Due (see above) |
| PART 2: APPLIED CRIMINOLOGY |
| Week 12 |
| Tuesday, April 26th – How do we measure crime? Watch lecture on the politics of crime data Thursday, April 28th – Review of crime data Review New York crime data on each site: FBI UCR *scroll down for the map to locate NY data* Compstat 2.0 *read this introduction and click the link to the portal to explore the data* Review NCVS *explore data on the dashboard, “N-DASH”* AND read one of the following: How bad is the rise in US homicides? Factchecking the ‘crime wave’ narrative (2021) The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates (2014) Intro & Section 1 of Resource Guide: Policing Beyond Police (2021) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 13 |
| Tuesday, May 3rd – Qualitative Criminology (Labeling, Criminalization) Read The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth, Rios (2006) (OA) Thursday, May 5th – Qualitative Criminology (Moral Panics) Read Social Banishment and the US “Criminal Alien,” Brotherton (2018) (OA) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 14 |
| Tuesday, May 10th – Quantitative Criminology (Economic, Classical, Rational) COVID and crime: An early empirical look, Abrams (2021) (OA) Thursday, May 12th – Quantitative Criminology (Punishment) Read Courtesy Stigma and Monetary Sanctions: Toward a Socio-Cultural Theory of Punishment, Harris et al. (2011) Due: Reading Response, post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
| Week 15 |
| Finals Week Work on your final project (research paper introduction and annotated bibliography) Due: Final project turned in on Blackboard by Sunday, May 22, at 11:59 pm Optional Assignment Due: Make-up Reading Response (of your choice), post to Blackboard by Sunday at 11:59 PM |
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