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

Tools for this Unit:

Student Reading List

Arbuckle, Alex Q. The Bombing of MOVE: When the Police Dropped a Bomb on a Quit Philly Neighborhood. Mashable Website, accessed July 29, 2018, https://mashable.com/2016/01/10/1985-move-bombing/#fSNm57vYikqV. A detailed retelling of the MOVE bombing, with a format that lends itself well to either print or online viewing.

Goffman, Alice. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Goffman’s senior-thesis-turned-ethnographic-novel tells an intimate tale of the experiences of young men of color in Philadelphia and their run-ins with the criminal justice system in its various forms. This book served as inspiration for the final project, and excerpts could be provided to students as a model of a finished product.

James Q. Wilson, “Thinking About Crime.” New York: Basic Books, 1975, 172. Wilson’s work reflects popular conservative thoughts on crime at the time and should help students to understand how many Americans felt regarding criminality during the 70s, 80s and 90s.

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