Race, Class, and Punishment

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.01.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Content Background
  5. Unit Objectives
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Sample Lesson Plans
  8. Bibliography
  9. Student Reading List
  10. Appendix A: Implementing Common Core Standards
  11. Notes

From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love

Matthew Ronald Menschner

Published September 2018

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Unit Objectives

  1. Read, analyze, interpret, evaluate and discuss the rhetoric from the beginning of the tough-on-crime era until modern day.
  2. Analyze, discuss and write how criminal justice policies have become increasing punitive in the last fifty years.
  3. Identify motivations for national and local criminal justice policy initiatives.
  4. Establish a timeline of key events and individuals in the expansion of the War on Drug and mass incarceration.
  5. Compare and contrast the policies implemented over the last fifty years with current reform efforts.
  6. Compose a written or oral report utilizing unit materials, content knowledge and empirical research.

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