WEEK # | TOPICS | DUE DATES |
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Part I: Where are we? (Overview of US incarceration) |
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1 |
Introduction |
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2 |
More detail/Race and the criminal legal system |
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3 |
Downstream effects: crime and recidivism |
Assignment 1 distributed |
4 |
Downstream effects: collateral consequences |
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Part II: How did we get here? |
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5 |
Laws |
Assignment 1 due |
6 |
Public opinion, punitiveness, elections |
Assignment 2 distributed |
7 |
Interest groups |
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8 |
Police and prosecutors |
Assignment 2 due |
Part III: What could change? |
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9 |
Changing public opinion, laws, sentencing |
Assignment 3 distributed |
10 |
Changing actors (especially prosecutors) |
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11 |
Changing the prison system (or diverting) Guest speaker: Lee Perlman, director of the ESG Prison Initiative at MIT |
Assignment 3 due |
12 |
Changing technology |
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13 |
Reform vs. revolution |
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14 |
Final presentations |
Final presentation due |
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