Spring 2010 Semester First Reading:
January 28
Jeremy Travis, Elizabeth Cincotta McBride, Amy L. Solomon. “Families Left Behind: The Hidden Costs of Incarceration and Reentry,” October 23, Revised June 2005, Urban Policy Center of the Urban Institute.
The Urban Institute has a copy of the paper freely available on their website: here
http://www.urban.org/publications/310882.html
February 11
Selections from:
Donald Braman. Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Families in Urban America. University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Creasie Finney Hairston. “Prisoners and Their Families: Parenting Issues During Incarceration,” in Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities, eds. Jeremy Travis and Michelle Waul. The Urban Institute Press, 2003.
Recommended article from Miguel:
Christopher Wilder. “Children of the Prison Boom: Parental Imprisonment, the prison Boom, and the concentration of Childhood Disadvantage” Demography 46 (2), 265-280, 2009.
February 25
Chapters 5 and 6 from:
Todd R. Clear. “Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse.” Oxford University Press, 2007.
March 11
Chapter 4 from Clear (above).
Chapter 13 of Braman (above).
New reading:
Sudhir Venkatesh. “Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets.” New York: The Penguin Press, 2008.
Preface
Chapter 1: How Does it Feel to be Black and Poor?
Chapter 2: First Days on Federal Street
Chapter 5: Ms. Bailey’s Neighborhood
April 1
Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) “College Learning for a New Global Century”. Washington, D.C., Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2008.
April 15
Nussbaum, Martha C. “Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education”. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Introduction: The Old Education and the Think-Academy
Chapter 1: Socratic Self-Examination
Chapter 5: African-American Studies
E-Reserves
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Some Readings from the Fall 2009 Semester
“Higher Education Success Among Historically Marginalized Males” by Loren Harris
“Consequences of Dropping out of High School” by the Center for Labor Market Studies
at the Lumina Foundation website: click here.
President’s Crime Commission Report, 1967
Reexamining the President’s Crime Commission Report
PBS website on the history of the US Criminal Justice system (Timeline)
“Report Notes Sexual Misconduct by Prison Workers” Washington Post.
Martinson, Robert. The Paradox of Prison Reform I: The “Dangerous Myth” The New Republic 166; April 1, 1972, 23-25.
Martinson, Robert. The Paradox of Prison Reform II: Can Corrections Correct? The New Republic 166; April 8, 1972, 13-15.
Conley, John M., Book Review: The President’s Crime Commission Report: Its Impact 25 years Later. edited by John M. Conley, Journal of Criminal Justice, 1995.
Feucht, Thomas and Edwin Zedlewski, The 40th Anniversary of the Crime Report. National Institute of Justice Journal, 2007.
Miller, Jerome G. The Debate on Rehabilitating Criminals: Is it True that Nothing Works? Washington Post, 1989.
Robinson, Paul. How Psychology is Changing the Punishment Theory Debate. U of Penn Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series, January 2007.