1. CONTENT: This course explores the social sources of five major forms of crime. It places each kind of crime in its social location and examines the varieties of social control systems used to respond to each kind of crime. Ideas about how best to prevent crime are offered: Social Justice must replace Criminal Justice in the 1st Century if we are to build a low crime society.
   
   
2. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: There are three major sources of information with which we can understand crime:
   
   
   1. Classroom lectures.
      
      
   2. TEXT: Curran and Renzetti, Theories of Crime.
      
      
   3. Current events, news reports, clippings and magazine articles on each form of crime and on new developments in social control.
      
      
3. EVALUATION:
   
   
   1. QUIZ: 30 points possible on the first quiz.
      
      
   2. 2. MID-TERM EXAMINATION: 70 points possible.
      
      ***These two are required***
      
      you may take:
   3. FINAL EXAMINATION: up to 100 points possible.
      
      OR you may select:
   4. POINT MENU below: up to 100 points possible.
      
      FINAL GRADE =
      
      
      A: 180+ Pts
      B: 160+
      C: 140+
      
      
4. POINT MENU:
   
   
   1. Movie Labs: Price = 20 pts. As Announced
      
      
   2. Special Reports: 20 pts. Permission of Professor. 5 pages, typed.
      
      
      1. Organized Crime in Vermont: Drugs, Gambling, Commodity Sex.
         
         
      2. White Collar Crime where you work.
         
         
      3. Corporate crime in the Burlington area: price fixing, bait and switch, false claims, other
         
         
      4. Underground structures in Jails, Schools, Stores and other places.
         
         
      5. Political Crime in state or national government.
         
         
   3. Field Assignments as Announced. 20 pts.
      
      
5. 216 LECTURE SCHEDULE
   
   

   15 Jan. Wed.

   ABOUT THE COURSE: Content, Organization, Evaluation

   Read Ch. 1 in Curran & Renzetti. Learn any 5 concepts; get to know any five great criminologists!!!

   17 Jan. Fri.

   THE CONCEPT OF CRIME: Legal v. Human Rights Definitions of Crime. Five kinds of crime.

   22 Jan. Wed.

   CLASSICAL CRIMINOLOGY: CH. 1: Pre-theoretical views on crime and punishment; Bonesana, Beccaria, Bentham.

   The Neo-Classical School of Criminology. Rational Choice: see Fig. 1.1: Cornish and Clarke.

   24 Jan. Fri.

   POSITIVIST CRIMINOLOGY: CH. 1. Universal, Precise, Complete, Predictable, Replicable, Controllable.

   Criminology involves objective study of criminals: formulation of laws/propositions; Testing, validation, and refinement of theory. The Criminal Justice System, if rational, adopts theory as policy.

   27 Jan. Mon.

   MARXIST THEORY OF CRIME: Five Modes of Production; Ruling Elites/Ruling Ideas; the Making of Law; the Enforcement of Law; the organization of Social Control. Street Crime as Pre-theoretical Rebellion to Mode of Production.

   29 Jan. Wed.

   THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL CONTROL: Control Systems, the Social Location of Control Systems.

   31 Jan. Fri.

   Class Structure and the Social Location of Crime. Bourgeoisie, Petite Bourgeoisie, Working Class, Under-class, Lumpen-proletariat. Read Ch. 2.

   3 Feb. Mon.

   Ch. 2. Biological Theories of Crime: Physical types; Genes; Chromosomes; Other biological theories.

   4 Feb: Movie Lab # 1: Boyzn'theHood See Handout.
   
   

   Note: We will skip the first part of Chapter 2: Born Criminals... There is little evidence that bones and bumps have anything to do with crime...other than the fact that poor children are malnourished and that criminologists of the time did not look at white collar crime, corporate crime or political crime.

   All committed by tall, handsome, well nourished, mostley white church-going, well educated, and quite well off males.
   

   Wed: 19 Feb: Family and Crime: Socio-Biological theories of Crime

   Family Studies: Reading 2.1

   Twin Studies: Monozygotic and Dizogotic Twins: Results

   Genes v. Social Experience & Looking Glass Process

   Adoption Studies: Table 2.2

   XYY Chromosomes & Sampling Problems.

   CNS Problems: Frontal Lobe damage/Right-Left

   Learning Disability: see ANS below

   ANS Problems: the reduction of fear/anxiety
   
   

   Fri: 21 Feb Raging Hormones: Box 2.1: Reading

   Testosterone and Epinephrine

   Diet and Crime: It's a crime to eat junk food

   READ CHAPTER 3
   
   

   Mon: 24 Feb: Kondratieff Cycles: Racism, Crime and Rebellion

   1740; 1790; 1830; 1870; 1890; 1930...1970??

   Keynsian Economics and the Federal Deficit
   
   

   Wed: 26 Feb: Ch. 3. Psychological Theories of Crime

   IQ, Crime and the Bell Curve

   Take the IQ test in Box 3.1

   Psychoanalytic Theory: Freudian theory
   
   

   Thurs: 27 Feb: Movie Lab #2: Beverley Hills Cops Price = 20pts.

   Worksheet = 23 items
   
   

   Fri: 28 Feb: MMPI/CPI [Table 3.1]

   Mental Illness and Crime Study Table 3.2

   Multiple Personality Disorder: Reading 3.1

   Drugs/Alcohol and Crime: decriminalization: pro and con

   The Medicalization of Crime: from badness to madness to illness.
   
   

   Mon: 3 Mar: Sociological Theories of Crime.

   The Chicago School: Urban Ecology and Social Problems

   Communities and Crime: stages in Community development
   
   

   Wed: 5 Mar: Anomie: Durkheim and Merton

   Study/memorize Table 4.1

   Cohen & Deviant Sub-cultures

   Miller and Sub-Cultural themes; p. 156

   Cloward and Ohlin: Opportunity Theory

   Women and Crime: Opportunity v. Relation to M/P
   
   

   Fri: 7 Mar:

   Agnew & Strain Theory: p. 173

   READ CHAPTER 5
   
   

   Mon: 10 Mar: Sutherland and Differential Association Theory

   Memorize the 9 propositions
   
   

   Wed: 12 Mar: Media and Crime: Read Box 5.1
   
   

   Fri: 14 Mar: Mid-term. Required of everyone. 70 pts.

The moment was due, as everyone knew;
Since the view from our land was a mess.

So I boldly set forth and studied the North,
to uncover the TRUTH, nothing less.

I beavered away, for a night and a day,
reading journals both ancient and new;
'Til in the end, I got 'round the bend
and discovered a secret or two.

'Should joblessness rise to Kondratieff size,
and the poor get poorer than you,
Then crime will increase and harmony cease;
It's as clear as the sky when its blue.

'Build prisons,' they say, 'to put them away,
'til they're tried, and they're damned
and they're hung.'

But I told them all twice (although it's not nice),
That's like sinking your head in the dung!.

I'll tell you all now and then take a bow,
So listen! allow me to plead.

'No need for those walls; disciplinarian halls,
It's just fairer shares that we need!

Now's an opportune time to put this in rhyme,
and set down the truth for the day:
Don't hunt in the dark; not even for snark,
You'll never make progress that way!

Lewis Carroll via Steven Box via TR Young

January 23, 1997 SUPPLEMENTAL POINT MENU

CRIM 216

1. FIELD TRIPS. I would like to organize 3 field trips. Each Field Trip will require 3 students to organize one each. The following points are available:
   
   Team 1. To the County Jail.
   1. 1 Team leader: 15 pts. To make all the contacts; set up visit
      
      
   2. 1 Researcher: 10 pts. To prepare the worksheet with Team Leader.
      
      
   3. 1 Secretary/Recorder: To type up worksheet; keep record of attendees.
      
      
   10 students at 20 pts each: to make the visit; fill out the work-sheet.
   
   Team 1 will earn 20 additional quality points for the visit itself.
   
   Team 2. To a Women's Correctional Facility.
   
   
   1. 1 Team leader: 15 pts. To make all the contacts; set up visit
      
      
   2. 1 Researcher: 10 pts. To prepare the worksheet with Team Leader.
      
      
   3. 1 Secretary/Recorder: To type up worksheet; keep record of attendees.
      
      
   10 students at 20 pts each: to make the visit; fill out the work-sheet.
   
   Team 3. To Montreal to study the Canadian/Quebecqois Criminal Justice System.
   1. 1 Team leader: TR: no points. To make all the contacts; set up visit
      
      
   2. 1 Researcher: 10 pts. To prepare the worksheet with Team Leader.
      
      
   3. 1 Secretary/Recorder: To type up worksheet; keep record of attendees.
      
      
   10 students at 20 pts each: to make the visit; fill out the work-sheet.
   
   
2. Field Research in the Colorado Criminal Justice System.
   
   Up to five students per week may write to Dick Ward, our Teaching Assistant at the Colorado Correctional Facility in Canon City.
   
   
   1. Each student will prepare a one-page letter/questionnaire.
      
      
      Para. 1) A bit about yourself.
      
      Para. 2) 5 questions about the CJS...possible topics:
      
      
      **how the system works
      
      **daily routine
      
      **underlife of the system
      
      **demographic q's
      
      **other as interest suggests
      
      
      Para. 3) one question enquiring into any one of the four major paradigms mentioned in Renzetti/Curran.
      
      Para. 4) Personal greeting/word of encouragement
      
      
3. Each student may write 3 such letters for a total of 30 points.
   
   
4. TR will read each letter; approve it for content; Credit student and mail letters en bloc.
   
   
5. Return mail will come to TR to be read and returned to each student.
   
   
6. Rules: TR will protect both students and TA from any inappropriate