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Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law
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This seminar looks at key issues in the historical development and current state of modern American criminal justice, with an emphasis on its relationship to citizenship, nationhood, and race/ethnicity. We begin with a range of perspectives on the rise of what is often called “mass incarceration”: how did our current system of criminal punishment take shape, and what role did race play in that process? Part Two takes up a series of case studies, including racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty, enforcement of the drug laws, and the regulation of police investigations. The third and final part of the seminar looks at national security policing: the development of a constitutional law governing the intersection of ethnicity, religion, and counter-terrorism, and the impact of counter-terrorism policy on domestic police practices.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
Law
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ghachem, Malick
Date Added:
09/01/2014
Research Methods for Criminal Justice Students
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This book is based on two open-access textbooks: Bhattacherjee’s (2012) Social science research: Principles, methods, and practices and Blackstone’s (2012) Principles of sociological inquiry: Qualitative and quantitative methods. I first used Bhattacherjee’s book in a graduate-level criminal justice research methods course. I chose the book because it was an open educational resource that covered the major topics of my course. While I found the book adequate for my purposes, the business school perspective did not always fit with my criminal justice focus. I decided to rewrite the textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in my criminal justice research methods courses. As I researched other open- educational resources for teaching social science research methods, I found Blackstone’s book, which covered more of the social science and qualitative methods perspectives that I wanted to incorporate into my book.

As a result, this open-access textbook includes some content from both previous works along with my own additions based on my extensive experience and expertise in conducting qualitative and quantitative research in social science settings and in mentoring students through the research process. My Ph.D. is in Sociology, and I currently teach undergraduates and graduate students in a criminal justice program at Weber State University. Throughout my career, I have conducted and published the results of research projects using a variety of methods, including surveys, case studies, in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis, and secondary analysis of quantitative data. I have also mentored undergraduates in conducting community-based research projects using many of these same methods with the addition of focus groups and program evaluations.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Criminal Justice
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Monica Williams
Date Added:
05/23/2022
Substance Abuse: Causes, Enforcement, Prevention
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Introduction to the causes of substance use and abuse in U.S. society, the enforcement of drug and alcohol abuse and contemporary modalities of prevention and treatment of substance abuse. Theories of substance abuse will be reviewed and the effectiveness of current enforcement practices will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives - Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
1. Describe how politics, economics, and history affect U.S. drug use and drug laws.
2. Articulate and analyze the basic theories of drug use and how they apply to real world situations.
3. Describe and analyze the problem of illicit drug use in U.S. society.

Features 10 modules (with readings, quizzes, and assignments) and 2 term projects.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Criminal Justice
Social Science
Social Work
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Assessment
Full Course
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Module
Provider:
Western Oregon University
Author:
Mari Sakiyama
Date Added:
05/10/2023
Using DNA to Identify People
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it would be ideal if students already have learned that DNA is the genetic material, and that DNA is made up of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs. It also would help if students already know that each human has two versions of every piece of DNA in their genome, one from mom and one from dad. The lesson will take about one class period, with roughly 30 minutes of footage and 30 minutes of activities.

Subject:
Biology
Career and Technical Education
Criminal Justice
Genetics
Life Science
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT Blossoms
Author:
Megan E. Rokop
Date Added:
05/14/2015