Spring 2020  |  SOC 4162 Section 001: Criminal Procedure in American Society (54729)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-103
Enrollment Status:
Open (39 of 50 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How constitutional democracy balances need to enforce criminal law and rights of individuals to be free of unnecessary government intrusion. prereq: 3101 or 3102 or 3111 or instr consent; soc majors/minors must register A-F
Class Notes:
Click on this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jbs+SOC4162+Spring2020
Class Description:

Welcome to our interactive criminal procedure class!

All parts of our class aim to help you develop your own "criminal procedure imagination" (CPI) By this I refer to your ideal blaming and punishing regime. We spend our Wednesday afternoons together interrogating the central promise of US criminal justice: to balance the power of government to protect the safety and security of all persons against those who want to do them harm, while at the same time protecting their right to come and go as they please without government interference, and guaranteeing all persons that the government will enforce the law on the street, at the police station, in the courts, and punishing criminal wrongdoing. This promise is also the criminal and punishing regime's greatest problem: How close to to social reality is the promise of equal rights and justice. This promise and this problem have fascinated my students at lease once a year since 1971. It stimulates them to think for themselves, discuss them during our class discussions and with their friends and family outside class.

A final word: You'll probably learn some actual criminal procedure law in our interactive journey through the criminal process. Good for you. But, remember our goal is above all to work on developing your CPI

Who Should Take This Class?:
If you're an Upper Division undergraduate from all majors and you're interested in becoming a more intelligent consumer of our criminal blaming and punishing regime, then you've found the right class. That regime is a very rough engine of social control, a last resort after families, belief systems, schools, and other non criminal social institutions fail. It's also the most expensive and most invasive instrument to affect human behavior in the digital age of the US version of a constitutional democracy, committed to the the values of human dignity, individual autonomy, equal justice for all, and social order.
Grading:
90% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: 90%,13 non cumulative short answer and essay exams; 10%, participation in course surveys
Exam Format:
60% identification, definition; description and explanation of legal concepts and social science findings (no multiple choice); 10% case briefs; 30% discussion reaction essays
Class Format:
15% Lecture
85% Discussion
Workload:
35 Pages Reading Per Week
13 Exam(s)
Other Workload: weekly non-cumulative short answer exam (60%); weekly case briefs (10%); weekly discussion analysis essay (30%)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54729/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 November 2019

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