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CRJ 249 PENOLOGY

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8. COURSE OUTLINE:
  Tentative Schedule
  I. Introduction
  (A) Conceptual Framework
  (B) Outline Of Book
  II. Punishment in Ancient and Medieval Europe
  (A) Introduction
  (B) Ancient Society
  (C) Early Middle Ages (700-1000)
  (D) Late Middle Ages (1100-1300s)
  (E) Mercantilist Era (1400-1700s)
  (F) Summary and Discussion
  III. Punishment and Public Justice in Colonial America (1600-1790)
  (A) Introduction
  (B) Life in the Colonies
  (C) Crime as Sin
  (D) Punishment for Punishment's Sake
  (E) Less Than Punishment
  (F) Summary and Discussion
  IV. Punishment and Deterrence in the Period of Transition (1790-1830)
  (A) Introduction
  (B) Postrevolutionary America
  (C) Crime as Free Will
  (D) Punishment and Deterrence
  (E) Summary and Discussion
  V. Punishment and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (1830-1880s)
  (A) Introduction
  (B) Jacksonian America and Beyond
  (C) Crime as a Moral Disease
  (D) The Promise of the Penitentiary
  (E) The Penitentiary in Practice
  (F) Summary and Discussion
  VI. Progressive America and the Rise of Reformatiories, Parole, and Probation (1880s-1930s)
  (A) Introduction
  (B) Progressive America
  (C) Positivist Criminology
  (D) The Promise of Progressive Penology
  (E) Progressive Penology in Practice
  (F) Summary and Discussion
  VII. Progressive America and the Juvenile Court Movement (1900-1960s)
(A) Introduction
(B) Juvenile Court as Accelerated Progressive Ideology
(C) The Promise of Individual Treatment
(D) Juvenile Court Implementation and Practice
  (E) Summary and Discussion
VIII. The Twentieth-Century Rehabilitative Ideal and the Proliferation of Penal Services (1900-1960s)
(A) Introduction
(B) The Rehabilitative Ideal
(C) Search for the Causes of Crime
(D) Penal Aspirations, Growth, and Practices
(E) Summary and Discussion
IX. Discovering Prison Subcultures (1950s-1960s)
(A) Introduction
(B) A Sociological Perspective of Prison Life
(C) The Prison Community
(D) The Deprivation Model
(E) The Importation Model
(F) Female Inmate Subcultures
(G) Total Power and Institutional Control
(H) Summary and Discussion
X. Prisoner Rights in the Age of Discontent (1960s-1970s)
(A) Introduction
(B) Radicalism and Social Reform
(C) Prisoner Rights
(D) Abolishing Capital Punishment
(E) Summary and Discussion
XI. Decentralizing Corrections in the Age of Discontent (1960s-1970s)
(A) Introduction
(B) Labeling Theory:  Justifying Decentralization
(C) Development of the Decentralization Movement
(D) Goals and Practices of Decentralization Reforms
(E) Summary and Discussion
XII. Conservatism and Law and Order Punishment (1980s-1990s)
(A) Introduction
(B) A reversal of Fortune
(C) Neo-Conservative Criminology
(D) Law and Order Punishment
(E) Summary and Discussion
XIII. The Prison as Nursery, Hospital, and Asylum
(A) Introduction
(B) Mothers Behind Bars
(C) Elder Inmates
(D) The Mentally Ill
(E) Prisons, AIDS, and Tuberculosis
(F) Summary and Discussion
XIV. Penal Reform and the Culture of Control (1990 and Beyond)
(A) Introduction
(B) A Postmodern Society
(C) Integrated Theories of Crime
(D) "Anything Goes" Penal Strategies
(E) Penal Reform:  Past, Present, and Future
(F) Penal Reform and the Culture of Control
(G) Conclusion