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Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, Kentucky 40475-3102
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CRJ 875: CRIME AND PUBLIC POLICY
Dr. Gary W. Potter
Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky Unversity
521 Lancaster Ave
461 Stratton Building
Richmond, KY 40475
859-622-2009
padpotte@acs.eku.edu
| Class | Topic and Lecture Link | Assignment |
| 1 & 2 | Module #1: Crime Rates and Crime Fear: The State and the Social Construction of Crime | Read, in Beckett and Sasson, Chapters 1,
2, 3 and 4. Read, in Beirne and Messerschmidt, Chapters 1 and 3. |
| 3 & 4 | Module # 2: The Media and the Social Construction of Crime | Read, in Beckett and Sasson, Chapters 5,
6, 7 and 8. Read, in Chambliss, Chapter 1 and 2. |
| 5 | Module #3: Crime Wars | Read, in Beirne and Messerschmidt, Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. |
| 6 & 7 | Module #4: The Criminal Justice System and Failure of Crime Control | Read, in Beirne and Messerschmidt,
Chapters 9, 10 and 15. Read, in Chambliss Chapter 3, 5 and 6. |
| 8, 9, and 10 | Module #5: The Failure of Drug Control Policies | Read, in Beckett and Sasson, Chapters 9
and 10. Read, in Beirne and Messerschmidt, Chapter 111. Read, in Chambliss, Chapter 4. |
| 11 | Module #6: Scholarly Research and the Death Penalty | |
| 12 & 13 | Module #7: Corporate Crime in America | Read, in Beirne and Messerschmidt,
Chapter 13. Semester Research Paper Due at the end of week 13 |
| 14 | Module #8: Corporate and State Corruption: Organized Crime as a Case Study of Crime-Producing State Policy | Read, in Beirne and Messerschmidt, Chapter 12. |
| 15 | Module #9: State-Organized Crime: As a Case Study of Crime-Producing State Policies | Read, in Beirne and Messerschmidt,
Chapter 14. Read, in Chambliss, Chapter 7. Class Journal Due! |