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Graduate Student Research Papers
Noelle Herring - Do you want Justice with that? A look at the McDonaldization and privatization of the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Debby Cochrane - Megan’s Law: Is it Harmful or Helpful to Juvenile Sex Offenders?
Donna Point - Debating the USA PATRIOT Act
Jenell Sutton - Domestic Violence in the United States
NEW!!! Danielle Shields - Supermax Prisons: The Punitive Extreme of the American Correctional System
LINKS
Careers in Criminal Justice: http://www.criminaljusticeusa.com/
Criminal Justice History Resources: http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~dreveskr/cjhr.html-ssi
Course Syllabi
Summer, 2010 (session 1: May 10-28)
Important announcement: for the second exam you will be asked to write a short essay responding to the film "Heaven's Fall" (see link below). Details will be provided in class.
NEW!!! Final Exam Study Guide
CRJ 405 Power Points
Introduction - History from a Critical Perspective
Chapter 1 Development of Criminal Law
Recommended reading: Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King
Chapter 2 Historical Overview of American Policing
Chapter 3 The Courts
Chapter 4 Incarceration
Chapter 5 Juvenile Justice
Chapter 6 Women & the CJ System
Chapter 7 - Crime Control Industry
Chapter 8 - Where Do We Go From Here
Scottsboro Case (a film we will watch) web site: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
Fall, 2010 Previews
INTERNSHIPS
To apply for an internship please call the CRJ office at 895-0236.