Democracy in Theory and Practice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.03.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objective
  4. Teaching Strategy
  5. Overview and Facts on Terrorism
  6. All Muslims are not Radical Fundamentalist - a look at Hate Crimes
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. APPENDIX A
  10. APPENDIX B
  11. APPENDIX C
  12. APPENDIX D
  13. APPENDIX E
  14. NOTES

Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System

Christine Shaub

Published September 2008

Tools for this Unit:

Annotated Bibliography

Teacher, Student and Classroom Resources

Boumediene et al. v. Bush, President of the United States, etal., Cornell University Law School, retrieved 6/14/08. Boumediene, et al. v. Bush (Nos. 06-1195 and 06-1196), 476 F. 3d, reversed and remanded, 2008. The decision in this case allows detainees to receive constitutional privileges. The students will use this case in the group assignment. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-1195.ZS.html

Dworkin, Ronald, "Why It Was A Great Victory," The New York Review of Books, Volume 55, Number 13, August 14, 2008

Fagin, James A., Criminal Justice 2005 Update, Allyn & Bacon, 2005. This is the classroom textbook used in the Introduction to Criminal Justice course.

Pellowski, Michael J., The Terrorist Trial of the 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center, A Headline Court Case, Enslow, 2003

Rethinking Schools Online. This website is an excellent source of lesson plans on terrorism, file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/christine.shaub/My%20Documents/YALE%202008/Rethinking%20Schools%20Website.htm

Scheuer, Michael formally Anonymous, Imperial Hubris, Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, Potomac Books, Inc. 2004, New Epilogue 2005

United States Constitution

Updike, John, Terrorist, Ballantine Book, 2007. Required reading for students.

Weiser, Benjamin, Mastermind Gets Life for Bombing of Trade Center, The New York Times, January 9, 1998, retrieved 7/11/08, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0D91F30F9

White, Jonathan R., Terrorism and Homeland Security, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2009, 2006

Materials I have Reviewed

Ackerman, Bruce, Before the Next Attack, Yale University, 2006

Baker, Stewart A. and John Kavanagh, Patriot Debates, ABA Publishing, 2005

Chomsky, Noam, 9-11, Seven Stores Press, 2001

Lane, Charles, High Court Rejects Detainee Tribunals, Washington Post Staff Writer, 2006

McCallo, William, 2 Patriot Act Provisions Ruled Unlawful, Associated Press, September 28, 2007

Oxford, American Dictionary and Thesaurus, The 2 nd Ed.

O'Rourke, Lindsey, Behind the Women Behind the Bomb, The New York Times, 2008

Pape, Robert A., Dying to Win the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, 2006 Random House Trade Paperback Edition, Random House New York, 2005

Richardson, Louise, What Terrorists Want, The Random House Publishing Group, 2006

Shay, Shaul, The Endless Jihad, The International Policy Institute for Counter-terrorism, The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, 2002

Smelser, Neil, The Faces of Terrorism-Social and Psychological Dimensions, Princeton University Press, 2007

Tarver, Marsha, and Harvey Wallace, and Steve Walker, Multicultural Issues in Criminal Justice, Allyn & Bacon, 2001

Internet Research

About.com Dictionary, http://www.answers.com/topic/ecoterrorism, retrieved 7-14-08

Abrahms, Max, What Terrorists Really Want International Security, Vol. 32, No. 4, Spring, 2008, pp. 78-105, Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

Answers.com - Dictionary, http://www.answers.com/topic/narcoterrorism retrieved 7-14-08

Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://emergency.cdc.gov,

Hate Crime definition," FBI," http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/Cius_98/

Hunting Bin Laden, Frontline [Television Interview transcription], WGBH Educational Foundation, 1995-2008, retrieved 7/10/08. This website offers extensive information on Bin Laden including tapes, transcripts, interviews and video profile, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/

Justices: Gitmo Detainees Can Challenge Detention in U.S. Courts, retrieved 6/14/08, http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/12/scotus/index.html

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, Office of the President of the United States, September 2002

Social Science Research Council Teaching Resources for High School and College Classrooms, retrieved 7/12/08. This website includes many lesson plans on terrorism. http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/teaching_resource/tr_intro.htm

United States Supreme Court, www.supremecourt.com

Resources related to the above objective

The resources stated above include a comprehensive overview of a real problem that deals with terrorism. Various aspects as discussed about the topic are addressed. These resources will enlighten both the educator and the students alike.

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