Online Reader for Crime and Society

These are required readings...coordinated with the Outline Topics of the course...some are "general" (i.e. for background information) and some are quite specific (i.e. refer to specific topics to be covered).

II. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE AND IMAGINATION
A Short Introduction to Sociology
Outline of Topics and links for the Introductory part of the course

III. ISSUES, METHODS, AND THEORIES
Criminology Room
Criminology Questions and Topics
Dumb Laws
Strange Laws

III-A. CRIME DATA
Bureau of Justice Homepage
Uniform Crime Reports
National Crime Victimization Survey
National Youth Survey

III-B. EXPLANATIONS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
Criminological Paradigms

V. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
What Works?

V-B. PUNISHMENT AND CORRECTIONS
Backfire: When Incarceration Increases Crime
Stanford Prison Experiment Home Page
Includes a Slideshow of the Experiment
Pathology of Imprisonment
About the Stanford Prison Experiment by Philip Zimbardo
Stanford Prison Experiment: Still Powerful After All These Years
Erich Fromm's critique of the Stanford Prison Experiment

VI. THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS AND A CONCLUSION
Peacemaking and Crime