Spring 2022  |  SOC 4162 Section 001: Criminal Procedure in American Society (55014)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (52 of 55 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: Soc 3101 or 3102 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format at the posted day/time. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jbs+SOC4162+Spring2022
Class Description:

Welcome to our interactive criminal procedure class!

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 when punishing criminal wrongdoing. This promise is also the criminal blaming and punishing regime's greatest problem: How close to social reality is the promise of EQUAL rights and justice to every individual. This promise and this problem have fascinated our beloved "U" undergrads--and me--at least once a year since 1971. I promise to work as hard as I can to make our Interactive Criminal Procedure ZOOM 2022 fascinating and valuable too!😺

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 justice 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:
About 35 Pages Reading Per Week. Some weeks are "thicker" than "others."
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55014/1223
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 November 2021

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