History of Crime & Criminal Justice (GH 210)

Term: 2019-2020 Summer

Faculty

Jacquelyn Williams
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Jacquelyn Williams has a BA in Anthropology/Archaeology and a MA in Public History. Mrs. Williams has been teaching American, European, and World history undergraduate courses for 5 years, both in-person and online.

Mrs. Williams’ most recent research interests include early American history between the 15th and 19th centuries pertaining to Colonial and American relationships with the Spanish, French, British, and Native Americans.

In Mrs. Williams’ courses she strives to bring in information from various disciplines, such as history, anthropology, and archaeology, in order to provide her students with a well-rounded picture of the material she is covering.  She likes to incorporate primary sources, documentaries, power points, and group discussions into her courses to better help her students learn and remember the material.

Description

This course will discuss and examine crime and criminal justice in the United States through a historical perspective. Students will evaluate crime and criminal justice in the United States in a variety of historical periods, including the Colonial period, the Jacksonian era, the Civil War era, the Gilded Age, the Progressive era, and the Crisis era. The focus of this course will be to discuss crime and criminal justice in the United States during these periods to better understand the eras in which they were created and for what purpose.