Week 1 : Methodology and Latinx Populations

To Read:

• Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed (30th anniversary ed.). New York: Continuum. (chapter 2) (pp. 71-86).

• Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1

• The Sentencing Project (2019). Report of the sentencing project to the United Nations human rights committee regarding racial disparities in the United States criminal justice system.

To Watch:

• What a world without prisons could look like (2018)

• How restorative justice could end mass incarceration (2019)

• Restorative Justice: Why Do We Need it? (2016)

• Decolonize Justice (2020) All segments

Week 2: The Politics of Crime and Birth of Prison in Western History

Assignment: Reading Response 1

To Read:

• Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press.
  • Chapters 2. (Password protected)

• Hartjen, Clayton A., “Crime: A Matter of Definition,” Chapter 1 in Crime and Criminalization; NY: Praeger, 1974).
  
• Beckett, K. & T Sasson, The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge, 2000):
  • Chapter 2: Crime in the U.S.
  • Chapter 3: Murder, American Style
  • Chapter 4: The Politics of Crime

To Watch:

• The 13th (2016)

To Listen:

• Serial (Podcast) Season 3
  • Episode 1