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NOTE: Course offerings change. Classes offered this semester may not be offered in future semesters.235.2 sec. 1 - Girls, Women, and the Criminal Justice System (Spring 2011)
Instructor: Nancy K.D. Lemon (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
Instructor: Barry Krisberg (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 2
Meeting Time: M 3:35-5:25
Meeting Location: 141
Course Start: January 10, 2011
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49600
This 2-unit seminar will explore girls and women���s involvement in the California juvenile and criminal justice systems, using case law, state and federal legislation, and empirical research. It will examine girls and women as victims and perpetrators of crime, including what crimes they are typically involved in, and what causes this involvement. Rape, domestic violence, trafficking, and prostitution will be covered, including the story of how rape victimization ignited the victim���s rights movement.
The class will study gender inequality within the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. It will look at issues for girls and women arising at arrest, charging, trial, and sentencing, including the death penalty. It will also examine issues arising during incarceration, including the impact on mothers and children, alternatives to incarceration, obtaining release on parole, and re-entry after being locked up.
The increasing number of women who are employed by the criminal justice system and the role of women as key policy makers will also be reviewed.
Solutions to issues of inequitable and illegal treatment of women and girls will be discussed, including prevention, legislation, litigation, use of media, and organizing both inside and outside locked facilities. We will conclude with a vision of a gender responsive criminal and juvenile justice system.
The teachers are Nancy K. D. Lemon and Barry Krisberg, each of whom has decades of professional experience with these topics. Students will have the option of taking a final examination or writing a research paper.
This course may satisfy the Writing Requirement.
Exam Notes: TH/P
Special Notes: LE(30)
Course Category: Social Justice and Public Interest
This course is cross-listed in the following categories:
Criminal Law
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Readers:
A reader will be used in this class.
Books:
Required Books are in blue
- Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence
Nikki Jones,
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813546155
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: $254.93
Price Source: amazon - Convicted survivors
Elizabeth Dermody Leonard
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2002.
ISBN: 9780791453285
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: 109.95
Price Source: ecampus - The invisible woman
Joanne Belknap
Publisher: Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2007.
ISBN: 9780495090557
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: 89.9
Price Source: bookbyte - Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System: Policy Issues and Practice Strategies
Russ Immarigeon, Editor
Edition: 2006 edition, hardcover
Publisher: Civic Research Institute, Inc.
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: 135.95
Price Source: user provided
