Weekly Topics

This is a Page for your weekly schedule of readings/assignments and topics.

Week                                                        Topic

Week 1

Jan. 28th

Course Overview

What is Justice?

Video’s 1 & 2 (Michael Sandel)

Week 2

Feb. 4th

Week 3

Feb. 11th

History of the Criminal Justice system

What is crime?

Week 4

Feb. 18th

Policing, ICE, Law Enforcement/CO’s

Know your rights

Week 5

Feb. 25th

Courts-Lawyers & Juries

Week 6

March 4th

Courts-Eyewitness & Experts

Week 7

March 11th

Courts-Judges & Sentencing

Week 8

March 18th

Punishment-Prisons & Jails

Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Davis

Week 9

March 25th

Punishment-Community Corrections

Alternatives to Incarceration

Probation/Parole

Week 10

April 1nd

Youth “Juvenile” Justice

Collateral Consequences of the label “Juvenile”

Week 11

April 8th

Restorative Justice

Until We Reckon – Daniel Sered

Victim/Perpetrator, Restorative Circles

Week 12

April 15th

Transformative Justice & Abolition

(JLWOP, Death Penalty)

Week 13

April 22rd

NO CLASS (SPRING BREAK)

Week 14

April 29th

Special Topics (selected by the class)

Guest Speaker TBD Week