GH 210 80 - History of Crime & Criminal Justice

  • Week 1: Crime and Criminal Justice in Early America [unit]

    Focus: Explore colonial criminal justice systems, early forms of punishment, and key milestones such as the Salem witch trials and the John Peter Zenger case as foundations for American ideas about crime, punishment, and free expression.

     

    Paperback A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System Book

     

    Read: Chapter 3: Crime and Criminal Justice in Early America (pp. 63–101)

    Optional Resource: Argument in Zenger Trial
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  • Week 2: Revolutionary Times and the New Nation [unit]

    Focus: Analyze how the American Revolution, the Constitution, and early reform movements reshaped criminal justice, including the Bill of Rights, the Judiciary Act of 1789, and early debates over punishment and the penitentiary.

     

    Paperback A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System Book

    Read: 

    1. Chapter 4: Crime and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary Times (pp. 102–128)
    2. Chapter 5: Crime and Criminal Justice in the New Nation (pp. 129–156)
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  • Week 3: Antebellum America and the Civil War Era [unit]

    Focus: Examine how antebellum reforms, slavery, sectional conflict, and the Civil War transformed policing, courts, and corrections, including juvenile justice, sentencing, and wartime pressures on law enforcement.

     

    Paperback A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System Book

     

    Read: 

    1. Chapter 6: Crime and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America (pp. 157–186)
    2. Chapter 7: Crime and Criminal Justice in the Civil War Era (pp. 187–223)
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  • Week 4: Victorian America and the Progressive Era [unit]

    Focus: Investigate Victorian-era ideas about crime, gender, and class, and trace major Progressive Era reforms in policing, courts, prisons, and juvenile justice, including scientific policing and early constitutional protections.

     

    Paperback A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System Book

     

    Read: 

    1. Chapter 8: Crime and Criminal Justice in Victorian America (pp. 224–265)
    2. Chapter 9: Crime and Criminal Justice in the Progressive Era (pp. 266–305)

     

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  • Week 5: Crisis Decades and Midcentury Criminal Justice [unit]

    Focus: Understand how the crisis decades (Prohibition, Depression, and interwar years) and the mid-twentieth century reshaped public perceptions of crime, media coverage, organized crime, and postwar criminal justice reforms.

     

    Paperback A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System Book

     

    Read: 

    1. Chapter 10: Crime and Criminal Justice in the Crisis Decades (pp. 306–349)
    2. Chapter 11: Criminal Justice at Midcentury (pp. 350–382)

    Week 5 Lecture

     

     
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  • Week 6: Crime and Criminal Justice at the End of the Twentieth Century [unit]

    Focus: Analyze late-twentieth-century developments, including rising and falling crime rates, mass incarceration, mandatory sentencing, and shifts in public policy and political rhetoric about crime.

     

    Paperback A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System Book

     

    Read: Chapter 13: Crime and Criminal Justice at the End of the Twentieth Century (pp. 423–477)

     

    Week 6 Lecture 

     
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  • Week 7: Contemporary America and Course Synthesis [unit]

    Focus: Connect the course's historical arc to contemporary criminal justice challenges, examining mass incarceration, racial disparities, media debates, and current reform efforts through both scholarship and news media.

     

    Paperback A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System Book

     

    Read: Chapter 15: Crime and Criminal Justice in Contemporary America (pp. 542–591)

     

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