Optional Viewing Assignment:

"The First Murder: Cain And Abel," Genesis With Bill Moyers, PBS (1996).

Optional Reading Assignment:

Reading Assignment:

Reading Assignment:

Optional Viewing Assignment:

Tuesday, October 4

Thursday, October 6

a)  Lecture:  The Outlaw As Folk Hero  (II)

b)  Possible Video Clip:  "Bonnie And Clyde: 'Til Death Do Us Part, American Experience, PBS

Allan C. Hutchinson, Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases And How They Shaped The World (New York: Cambridge, 2011).

Reading Assignment:

Browse extensively in William Garrow And The Rise Of The Defense Attorney Discussion Topic.

Reading Assignment:

Tuesday, November 8

Thursday, November 10

a)  Discussion:  Cesare Beccaria And Enlightenment Ideas Of Justice

Roger-Pol Droit, "Michel Foucault, On The Role Of Prisons," New York Times (August 5, 1975).

"Episode 49: Foucault On Power And Punishment," Partially Examined Life, January 11, 2012.

Viewing Assignment:

Reading Assignment:

Optional Viewing Assignment:

Tales From Kingston Pen, Doc Zone, CBC, December 2012.

Reading Assignment:

Tuesday, November 29

Reading Assignment:

a)  Letter of Introduction (1%)

Seminar notes are one-to-two page commentaries upon the course books .  Hand in or e-mail me your seminar notes within a week of the discussion of that particular reading.  Please send me your electronic files in .doc, ,docx or .rtf format and label your files so that I can identify both you and the reading by the file title.

The purpose of the seminar notes is to provide you with the opportunity to organize your thoughts after each of the common major readings.  This exercise is also designed to facilitate analytical group discussion on our seminar days.  The notes need not be formal in style but should be at least a couple long paragraphs in length and should highlight key themes from the reading.  Although you should write concisely, it is fine if some of your seminar notes are more than two pages in length.

Rather than being graded on a letter scale, the seminar notes will be evaluated on a check, check-plus, and check-minus basis:

Check: A fully satisfactory seminar note (7.7/10, B)

Check-Plus: A strong note that offers particularly good analysis and/or a well-developed commentary upon the text (9.2/10, A)

Check-Minus: A weak seminar note that does not successfully engage with the reading (6.2, C)

Particularly outstanding seminar notes may receive a Check-Plus-Plus (10.0/10, A+)

e)  Final Exam (15%)

The Final Exam will be designed the be approximately two hours in length and will consist of a series of mini-essay answers discussing key terms and topics from the history of crime, punishment and deviancy.

The class participation grade will be based upon attendance; pre-class preparation; and the willingness to contribute thoughtfully to full-class and small-group discussion.  Although attendance is not required, I will take roll, and those who are not in class regularly will receive a poor grade for this component of the course.  I would like to encourage a classroom environment in which all are eager to share their ideas and in which lectures are accompanied by thoughtful dialogue.

Assigning class participation grades can be quite arbitrary.  When I assign participation grades at the end of the semester, I place each student in one of three following categories:

1)  Regular class attendance and excellent class participation.

2)  Regular class attendance and  fully satisfactory class participation.

3)  Irregular class attendance and preparation.

Those in Category 1 receive top participation grades.  Those in Category 3 receive poor participation grades.  Those in Category 2 are most likely to receive no specific participation grade but rather have the 85% total for their written work pro-rated to a 100% scale (in some cases the participation component may help a Category 2 student's final grade but in no instance will it lower the final grade).  Thus,  shy students are not penalized for class participation so long that they attend faithfully and I need only to distinguish between strong, satisfactory and weak participation rather than attempt to make fine distinctions.

Everything that you hand in should be your original work unless otherwise indicated.  Violations of this policy may result in failing an assignment or the course in its entirety.  Please talk to me if you have any uncertainty  about what is permitted here.