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Week 10: Professions

March 30, 2017 7:42 pm / Leave a comment

Week of April 3, 2017 –  The Informal CRMJ Structure/Blumer’s Symbolic Interactionism 

To stay on track — Continue to revise and re-submit draft elements of your final career portfolio. The last day to submit drafts is Wednesday, April 26th. Plan accordingly.

Dates/Deadlines:

  • April 17-21 – Second Meetings
  • May 1st, beginning of class – Final Career Portfolio due 

Preparatory Readings:

    • Spencer Johnson. Who Moved My Cheese? — entire book.
    • Mark Jones. Criminal Justice Pioneers in U.S. History. — entire book .
    • Susan Takata and Jeanne Curran. Theory, Policy, Practice of a Career. [online] — Chapter 8.
    • J. Scott Harrs & Karen Hess. Careers in Criminal Justice and Other Related Fields – Section 3.  
    • Randy Pausch. The Last Lecture.
    • Documentary: “___”  (shown in class) 

Lecture related links:

 Concepts to be covered:

— symbolic interactionism

— outsider

— the label

— societal reaction

— innovator

— stigma

— personal performance styles

— interpersonal control styles

— situational context styles

— Weltanschauung styles

— networking

— building & burning bridges

— body language

— the primacy effect v. the recency effect

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to read this week’s assigned readings. Due: Friday, April 7th.   

  1.   Examine all of the dimensions of individual style in the workplace: a) personal performance styles b) interpersonal control styles, c) situational context styles,  and d) Weltanschauung styles. What are your preferences and why? How do these dimensions match up with your career goal? Why. 
  2.  List 10 contacts you have available right now through which you could begin networking? (from H&H, p. 244, Q.3).
  3.  List opportunities you could create to sell yourself besides the traditional resume and interview? (from H&H, p. 260, Q.3)
  4.   What would be two excellent interview questions to incorporate in the mock interviews? Why. 
  5.   What techniques could you use to deal with the understandable stress and anxiety that everyone experiences during an interview? (H&H, p. 278, Q.6) 

Suggestions for your Career Portfolio:

    •  new Take a picture of yourself (or have a friend photography you): What you would wear to an interview? What you would not wear to an interview. Explain both situations. 
    • Videotape yourself answering interview questions. Constructively critique your performance. 
    • Read a biography or autobiography about a prominent criminal justice professional.  
    • Map out your career related network. Analyze the connections as well as the disconnects in your network. 

 
Recommended Readings:

  • Harvey MacKay. Sharkproof.
  • Harvey MacKay. Swim with the Sharks.  
  • Spencer Johnson. Peaks and Valleys.
  • Deepak Malhotra. I Moved Your Cheese. 
  • Richard Bolles. What Color is Your Parachute?
  •  Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers: The Story of Success.
  •  Dennis W. Bakke. Joy at Work.
  •  Megan Hustad. How to be Useful.

— Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
— Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law.

 

Email: takata@uwp.edu

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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 30, 2017

 

 

Week 10: Corrections

March 30, 2017 7:23 pm / Leave a comment

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Week of April 3, 2017 – Special Populations 

To Stay on Track — Finish up your visual project self-assessment questions. Proofread your visual component. 

Dates/Deadlines:

  • Wednesday, April 5th, beginning of class  – Visual Component with self-assessment due 
  • April 17-21 – Second Meetings

Preparatory Readings:

  • Hassine. Life Without Parole. — entirety.
  • Haas and Alpert. Dilemmas of Corrections. Chapters 13, 29-30.
  • Documentary: “Voices from Inside”   (to be shown in class)
  • Dawley. A Nation of Lords. pp. xi-96.

Lecture related links:

Concepts to be covered:

— the mentally ill inmate

— the female inmate

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to do this week’s assigned readings and view “The Released” and “Voices from Inside.” Due: Friday, April 7th.

  1.  What are the unique challenges and problems for the mentally ill, both inside and outside of prison life? What might be some possible solutions? Why. Incorporate the documentary, “The Released” and assigned readings into your answer. 
  2.  Compare and contrast female inmates with male inmates. In other words, what are the similarities and differences between these two inmate populations? If you were the prison warden, how might you run a female prison and how would it differ, it at all, from male prisons? Why.
  3.  Based on the two documentaries, “The Released” and “Voices from Inside,” what works? How? Why.
  4.  Other than your own visual project, which one was the most creative? Why. the most informative? Why.  

Going Beyond the Course Materials:

Note: If you found this week’s topic interesting, check out how you can go beyond the materials discussed.

  •  Explore in more depth the problems of the mentally ill prisoner or the female prisoner.
  • Which community correctional programs are the most successful for the mentally ill inmate? the female prisoner? Why.
  • Recommended readings on female prisoners:
    • Wally Lamb. Couldn’t Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution.
    • Jennifer Gonnerman.  Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett.
    • Sandra Enos. Mothering Inside. 
    • Bell Gale Chevigny. (ed). Harsh Punishment: International Experiences of Women’s Imprisonment. 
    • Lori Girshick. No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison. 
    • Kathleen O’Shea. Women on the Row: Revelations from Both Sides of the Bar.  
  •  If you enjoyed reading Hassine’s Life Without Parole,  you might be interested in  other prisoner autobiographies/biographies: 
    • Jack Henry Abbott. In the Belly of the Beast.
    • Leonard Peltier. Prison Writings.
    • Jarvis Jay Masters. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row.
    • Mumia Abu-Jamal.Live from Death Row.
    • Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Thirteenth Round.
    • Eldridge Cleaver. Soul on Ice.
    • The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 

Recommended Readings:

  • Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow. 
  •  John Irwin. The Warehouse Prison.
  • John Irwin. Prisons in Turmoil. 
  • John Irwin. The Imprisonment Binge.
    • Alfie Kohn. Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community.
    • Alfie Kohn. Unconditional Parenting.

Email me at:  takata@uwp.edu

Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 30, 2017

Week 9: Professions

March 18, 2017 5:03 pm / Leave a comment

Week of March 26, 2017 –  Stress, Burnout & Juggling

To stay on track — 1) Sign up for your second meeting. 2) Continue to revise and re-submit draft elements of your final career portfolio. The last day to submit drafts is Wednesday, April 26th. Plan accordingly.

Dates/Deadlines: 

  • Monday, March 27th – Sign up for second meeting
  • April 17-21 – Second Meetings
  • May 1st, beginning of class – Final Career Portfolio due 

Preparatory Readings:

    • Spencer Johnson. Who Moved My Cheese? — entire book.
    • Mark Jones. Criminal Justice Pioneers in U.S. History. — entire book .
    • Susan Takata and Jeanne Curran. Theory, Policy, Practice of a Career. [online] —
    • J. Scott Harrs & Karen Hess. Careers in Criminal Justice and Other Related Fields – Section 2.  
    • Randy Pausch. The Last Lecture.
    • Documentary: “___”  (shown in class) 

Lecture related links:

 Concepts to be covered:

— fitness

— mental and physical health

— stress & burnout

— successes & failures

— “learning is messy!”

 

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to read this week’s assigned readings. Due: Monday, April 3rd.   

  1.   How do you plan to cope with career related stress and burnout? Why. Why is physical fitness crucial for professionals, particularly those in criminal justice? What are you doing now to maintain optimal mental and physical fitness? 
  2.  Do you believe your past is an accurate assessment of your employment potential? (from H&H, p. 188).
  3.  Imagine you have been assigned the task of reducing an extremely large number of resumes to a more workable number. Regardless of the position, what are five reasons you can think of to get rid of applications right away? (from H&H, p. 209)
  4.   What benefits come from not getting the job? (H&H, p. 221). 

Suggestions for your Career Portfolio:

    •  Write one to two pages discussing role models and mentors who have helped you along the way.
    • Map out or illustrate you career path to date. 
    • Read a biography or autobiography about a prominent criminal justice professional.  
    • Map out your career related network. Analyze the connections as well as the disconnects in your network. 

 
Recommended Readings:

  • Arlie Hochschild. Second Shift.
  • Arlie Hochschild. Time Bind. 
  • Spencer Johnson. Peaks and Valleys.
  • Deepak Malhotra. I Moved Your Cheese. 
  • Richard Bolles. What Color is Your Parachute?
  •  Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers: The Story of Success.
  •  Dennis W. Bakke. Joy at Work.
  •  Megan Hustad. How to be Useful.

— Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
— Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law.

 

Email: takata@uwp.edu

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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 18, 2017

 

 

Week 9: Corrections

March 18, 2017 4:39 pm / Leave a comment

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Week of March 26, 2017 – Rehabilitation/Community Corrections

To Stay on Track:  1) Finish up your visual component including an inexpensive give-away item, and start working on your self-assessment.   2) Sign up for your second meeting. 

Dates/Deadlines:

  • Wednesday, April 5th, beginning of class  – Visual Component with self-assessment due 
  • April 17-21 – Second Meetings

Preparatory Readings:

  • Hassine. Life Without Parole. — entirety.
  • Haas and Alpert. Dilemmas of Corrections. Chapters 22-28.
  • Documentary: “The Released”   (to be shown in class)
  • Dawley. A Nation of Lords. —-

Lecture related links:

Concepts to be covered:

— rehabilitation

— recidivism

— program success

— boot camp

— prison-based therapeutic communities

— prisoner re-entry

— victim-offender mediation

— probation

— parole

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to do this week’s assigned readings and view “The Released.” Due: Friday, March 31st.

  1.  What are the arguments on both sides of the rehabilitation debate? Which side do you take? Why. Incorporate the documentary and assigned readings into your answer. 
  2. Based on Petersilia’s chapter in H&A and her article which was distributed in class, what the most serious problems relating to prisoner re-entry?  Why. What are some possible solutions? Why.
  3. Compare and contrast probation and parole. What are the similarities and differences? 

Going Beyond the Course Materials:

Note: If you found this week’s topic interesting, check out how you can go beyond the materials discussed.

  •  Research “what works.” In other words, what are today’s most successful rehabilitation programs inside the prison? Why. How is success measured? 
  • Explore in more depth the problems of prisoner re-entry. 
  • Which community correctional programs are the most successful? Why.
  • Other books related to rehabilitation:
    • Robert Martinson. The Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment.
    • Frances Cullen & Karen Gilbert. Reaffirming Rehabilitation. 
    • James Finckenauer. Scared Straight and the Panacea Phenomenon. 
    • S. Martin, L. Sechrest & R. Redner. New Directions in the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders.
  •  If you enjoyed reading Hassine’s Life Without Parole,  you might be interested in  other prisoner autobiographies/biographies: 
    • Jack Henry Abbott. In the Belly of the Beast.
    • Leonard Peltier. Prison Writings.
    • Jarvis Jay Masters. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row.
    • Mumia Abu-Jamal.Live from Death Row.
    • Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Thirteenth Round.
    • Eldridge Cleaver. Soul on Ice.
    • The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 

Recommended Readings:

  • Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow. 
  •  John Irwin. The Warehouse Prison.
  • John Irwin. Prisons in Turmoil. 
  • John Irwin. The Imprisonment Binge.
    • Alfie Kohn. Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community.
    • Alfie Kohn. Unconditional Parenting.

Email me at:  takata@uwp.edu

Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 18, 2017

Week 8: Professions

March 16, 2017 9:44 pm / Leave a comment

Week of March 19, 2017 –   SPRING BREAK

Have a relaxing, fun and safe spring break!

To stay on track, continue to revise and re-submit draft elements of your final career portfolio. 

Dates/Deadlines: 

  • Friday, March 17th – Last Day to drop class via SOLAR
  • March 19-25 – Spring Break 
  • May 1st, beginning of class – Final Career Portfolio due 

Preparatory Readings:

Lecture related links:

 Concepts to be covered:

 

 

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to read this week’s assigned readings. Due: _____.   

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  3.  
  4.   

Suggestions for your Career Portfolio:

    •  Write one to two pages discussing role models and mentors who have helped you along the way.
    • Map out or illustrate you career path to date. 
    • Read a biography or autobiography about a prominent criminal justice professional.  

 
Recommended Readings:

  • Arlie Hochschild. Second Shift.
  • Arlie Hochschild. Time Bind. 
  • Deepak Malhotra. I Moved Your Cheese. 
  • Richard Bolles. What Color is Your Parachute?
  •  Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers: The Story of Success.
  •  Dennis W. Bakke. Joy at Work.
  •  Megan Hustad. How to be Useful.

— Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
— Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law.

 

Email: takata@uwp.edu

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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 16, 2017

 

 

Week 8: Corrections

March 16, 2017 9:37 pm / Leave a comment

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Week of March 19, 2017 – SPRING BREAK

Have a nice, relaxing and safe spring break! 

To Stay on Track:  Work on your visual component including an inexpensive give-away item.  

Dates/Deadlines:

  • Friday, March 17th – Last Day to Drop Class via SOLAR
  • March 19-25 – Spring Break (no classes)
  • Wednesday, April 5th, beginning of class  – Visual Component with self-assessment due 

Preparatory Readings:

  • Hassine. Life Without Parole. — entirety.
  • Haas and Alpert. Dilemmas of Corrections. Chapters 1-21.
  • Documentary: “Second City”   (to be shown in class)
  • Dawley. A Nation of Lords. —-

Lecture related links:

Concepts to be covered:

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to do this week’s assigned readings and view “____.” Due: ________.

  1.  
  2.  

Going Beyond the Course Materials:

Note: If you found this week’s topic interesting, check out how you can go beyond the materials discussed.

  •  If you enjoyed reading Hassine’s Life Without Parole,  you might be interested in other prisoner autobiographies/biographies: 
    • Jack Henry Abbott. In the Belly of the Beast.
    • Leonard Peltier. Prison Writings.
    • Jarvis Jay Masters. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row.
    • Mumia Abu-Jamal.Live from Death Row.
    • Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Thirteenth Round.
    • Eldridge Cleaver. Soul on Ice.
    • The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 

Recommended Readings:

  • Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow. 
  •  John Irwin. The Warehouse Prison.
  • John Irwin. Prisons in Turmoil. 
  • John Irwin. The Imprisonment Binge.
    • Alfie Kohn. Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community.
    • Alfie Kohn. Unconditional Parenting.

Email me at:  takata@uwp.edu

Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 17, 2017

Week 7: Professions

March 9, 2017 12:33 pm / Leave a comment

Week of March 12, 2017 –   The CRMJ Profession @ Midterm

To stay on track, continue to revise and re-submit draft elements of your final career portfolio. 

Dates/Deadlines: 

  • Friday, March 17th – Last Day to drop class via SOLAR
  • March 19-25 – Spring Break 
  • May 1st, beginning of class – Final Career Portfolio due 

Preparatory Readings:

Lecture related links:

 Concepts to be covered:

 

  • gatekeeping ism
  • marginal man
  • fitness and stress
  • test anxiety
  • resume
  • cover letter
  • “rejection shock”

 

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to read this week’s assigned readings. Due: Friday, March 17th.   

 

  1. Based on the resume that you submitted for your midterm portfolio, honestly, if you were a potential employer, would you be interested in bringing in this person for an interview? Why or why not. If not, what does your resume need to attract potential employers? Why.
  2.  What is the most important thing that you have learned in this course at midterm? Why.
  3.  What is your Plan A? And, what are your backup plans B and C? If you do not have a backup plan, develop one NOW!
  4.  List at least three possible elective elements to be included in your career portfolio by the end of the semester. 

Suggestions for your Career Portfolio:

    •  Write one to two pages discussing role models and mentors who have helped you along the way.
    • Map out or illustrate you career path to date. 
    • Read a biography or autobiography about a prominent criminal justice professional.  

 
Recommended Readings:

  • Arlie Hochschild. Second Shift.
  • Arlie Hochschild. Time Bind. 
  • Deepak Malhotra. I Moved Your Cheese. 
  • Richard Bolles. What Color is Your Parachute?
  •  Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers: The Story of Success.
  •  Dennis W. Bakke. Joy at Work.
  •  Megan Hustad. How to be Useful.

— Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
— Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law.

 

Email: takata@uwp.edu

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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 9, 2017

 

 

Week 7: Corrections

March 9, 2017 12:24 pm / Leave a comment

Week of March 12, 2017 – Jails & Short-Term Detention 

To Stay on Track:  Work on your visual component including an inexpensive give-away item.  

Dates/Deadlines:

  • Friday, March 17th – Last Day to Drop Class via SOLAR
  • March 19-25 – Spring Break (no classes)
  • Wednesday, April 5th, beginning of class  – Visual Component with self-assessment due 

Preparatory Readings:

  • Hassine. Life Without Parole. — entirety.
  • Haas and Alpert. Dilemmas of Corrections. Chapters 1-21.
  • Documentary: “Second City”   (to be shown in class)
  • Dawley. A Nation of Lords. —-

Lecture related links:

 

Concepts to be covered:

  • jails
  • prisons
  • pretrial detention 
  • misdemeanor
  • bail

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to do this week’s assigned readings and view “Second City.” Due: Friday, March 17th.

  1. What are the similarities and differences between jails and prisons?
  2. Why are county jails considered the “bottom of the correctional barrel?” What are some problems you would expect to encounter if you were in charge of providing rehabilitation in a county jail? Why.
  3. What are some alternative to pretrial detention? What do these alternatives tell us about the interrelationship between “theory, policy, and practice”? Why.

Going Beyond the Course Materials:

Note: If you found this week’s topic interesting, check out how you can go beyond the materials discussed.

  • Research “what works” inside the county jail. In other words, what are today’s most successful rehabilitation programs in the county jail? why. How is success measured? Why.
  •  If you enjoyed reading Hassine’s Life Without Parole,  you might be interested in other prisoner autobiographies/biographies: 
    • Jack Henry Abbott. In the Belly of the Beast.
    • Leonard Peltier. Prison Writings.
    • Jarvis Jay Masters. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row.
    • Mumia Abu-Jamal.Live from Death Row.
    • Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Thirteenth Round.
    • Eldridge Cleaver. Soul on Ice.
    • The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 

Recommended Readings:

    • J.F. Fishman.  Crucibles of Crime: the Shocking Story of the American Jail. 
    • D. Danto. Jail House Blues. 
    • John Irwin.  The Jails: the Managing of the Underclass in American Society. 

 

  • Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow. 
  •  John Irwin. The Warehouse Prison.
  • John Irwin. Prisons in Turmoil. 
  • John Irwin. The Imprisonment Binge.
    • Alfie Kohn. Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community.
    • Alfie Kohn. Unconditional Parenting.

Email me at:  takata@uwp.edu

 

 

Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 9, 2017

 

Week 6: Professions

March 2, 2017 1:44 pm / Leave a comment

Week of March 5, 2017 –   Hierarchy, Bureaucracy, Division of Labor

To stay on track, Your midterm portfolio is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, March 8th. Proofread! 

Dates/Deadlines:

  • Friday, March 17th – Last Day to drop class via SOLAR
  • March 19-25 – Spring Break 
  • May 1st, beginning of class – Final Career Portfolio due 

Preparatory Readings:

Lecture related links:

 Concepts to be covered:

    • achieved status v. ascribed status
    • red badge of power
    • division of labor 
    • hierarchy
    • social class
    • bureaucracy
    • difference
    • marginal man 
    • gatekeeping isms
    • equal opportunity
    • affirmative action
    • the re-entry worker 

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to read this week’s assigned readings and view the documentary on William Kunstler.  Due: Friday, March 10th.   

 1.   Now that we have finished Criminal Justice Pioneers … , list at least three individuals who should be included in this book. Explain why.   

 2.  Select a social setting, (i.e., work, school, home) and describe the division of labor and discuss who has the power? Why. 

3.   In examining your career path, which gatekeeping ism will be the most problematic? Why. 

4.  If you were a prospective employer, what do you consider William Kunstler’s strengths and weaknesses? Why. Would you hire him? Why or why not.

 

Suggestions for your Career Portfolio:

    •  Write one to two pages discussing role models and mentors who have helped you along the way.
    • Map out or illustrate you career path to date. 
    • Read a biography or autobiography about a prominent criminal justice professional.  

 
Recommended Readings:

  • Arlie Hochschild. Second Shift.
  • Arlie Hochschild. Time Bind. 
  • Deepak Malhotra. I Moved Your Cheese. 
  • Richard Bolles. What Color is Your Parachute?
  •  Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers: The Story of Success.
  •  Dennis W. Bakke. Joy at Work.
  •  Megan Hustad. How to be Useful.

— Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
— Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law.

 

Email: takata@uwp.edu

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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 2, 2017

 

 

Week 6: Corrections

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Week of March 5, 2017 – Courts, Constitution, Corrections 

To Stay on Track:  Plan the visual component of your project including an inexpensive give-away item.  

Falling Behind – if you have not resolved your “No Grade” (missing discussion questions/sets), please do so ASAP. 

Dates/Deadlines:

  • Friday, March 17th – Last Day to Drop Class via SOLAR
  • March 19-25 – Spring Break (no classes)
  • Wednesday, April 5th, beginning of class  – Visual Component due 

Preparatory Readings:

  • Hassine. Life Without Parole. — entirety.
  • Haas and Alpert. Dilemmas of Corrections. Chapters 16 through 21.
  • Documentary: “Solitary Nation”   (to be shown in class)
  • Dawley. A Nation of Lords. —-

Lecture related links:

 

Concepts to be covered:

  • prisoner rights
  • “hands off” doctrine
  • due process 
  • disciplinary hearings
  • the Eighth Amendment
  • solitary confinement 

 

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to do this week’s assigned readings and view “Solitary Nation.” Due: Monday, March 13th.

  1.  Which court case in this week’s Haas & Alpert readings, do you consider the most important? Explain why. 
  1.  What did you like best about Hassine’s  Life Without Parole?  Why. What did you like least about this book? Why. (Be sure to provide examples from the book). 
  1.  How does Hassine’s conclusion relate to Haas & Alpert’s readings on the courts? Do you agree with Hassine’s conclusion? Why or why not. 
  2. Based on “Solitary Nation”,  is solitary confinement cruel and unusual punishment? Why or why not? 

Going Beyond the Course Materials:

Note: If you found this week’s topic interesting, check out how you can go beyond the materials discussed.

  • Compare and contrast a series of prison movies and television shows  (both old and new)  with  Hassine’s Life Without Parole. What are some  similarities and differences. Why. 
  •  Examine one of the following demographic characteristics of those in prison: age, race/ethnicity, gender or socio-economic status.
  •  Read John Irwin’s It’s About Time: America’s Imprisonment Binge. Are we imprisoning too many individuals? Why.
  •  If you enjoyed reading Hassine’s Life Without Parole,  you might be interested in other prisoner autobiographies/biographies: 
    • Jack Henry Abbott. In the Belly of the Beast.
    • Leonard Peltier. Prison Writings.
    • Jarvis Jay Masters. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row.
    • Mumia Abu-Jamal.Live from Death Row.
    • Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Thirteenth Round.
    • Eldridge Cleaver. Soul on Ice.
    • The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 

Recommended Readings:

  • Erving Goffman. Asylums. 
  • Donald Clemmer. The Prison Community. 
  • Gresham Sykes. Society of Captives. 
  • Leo Carroll. Hacks, Blacks and Cons. 
  • Jeffrey Reiman. The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Prison. 
  • Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow. 
  •  John Irwin. The Warehouse Prison.
  • John Irwin. Prisons in Turmoil. 
  • John Irwin. The Imprisonment Binge.
    • Alfie Kohn. Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community.
    • Alfie Kohn. Unconditional Parenting.

Email me at:  takata@uwp.edu

 

 

Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: March 2, 2017