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Langara College: Criminal Justice DepartmentFall 2010
Criminal Justice 1213: Women and the Justice System
INSTRUCTOR Ms. Cathy Huth
CONTACT chuth@langara.bc.ca or
604-323-5363 (only during office hours)
CLASS TIME Tuesday & Thursday 10:30-12:20 L215
OFFICE HOURS A118C
Tuesday 12:30-1:30 or by appointment Course Description:
Welcome to CRIM 1213! This course will examine historical and contemporary
perspectives on women as offenders and victims of crime. The frequency and types of crime committed by women, and against women, will be explored as well as the criminal justice system's response to these issues. Specific emphasis will be given to visible minority women, women in prison, and programs and services designed for female offenders. The course will also highlight women working in the criminal justice system as well as the media's representation of women who come into conflict with the law. Format:
This course is a lecture format. However, class discussion and student participation is also an important component of this course. Students are expected to complete all assigned readings prior to class.
Course Expectations:
Students are expected to read all of the assigned material prior to class, attend classes, take notes, ask questions and engage in class discussions on the topics and themes that form the foundation of this course. Occasionally, the instructor will ask for
volunteers to share their ideas and at other times will call upon students to discuss a point or contribute to a discussion, so please be prepared.
Students should expect a two week turn around for marked evaluations. Please note that supplemental and grade raising assignments and examinations are not available.
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Textbooks:• Barker, J. (2009). Women and the criminal justice system: A Canadian
perspective. Toronto, ON: Edmond Montgomery Publications.
The following textbook has been placed on reserve at the Langara library or can be purchased at the Langara bookstore. Students are not required to purchase the textbook, however the readings selected from this textbook are required.
• Alarid, L. F. & Cromwell, P. (2006). In her own words: Women offenders’ views
on crime and victimization. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company.
Course Requirements:
The dates for the quiz, midterm exam and essay are indicated below. If you are unable to write the quiz or midterm or turn in the assignment on the dates as scheduled below, it is strongly suggested that you consider taking the course at a more convenient time. You must complete all of the course requirements (assignment, quiz and exams) in order to obtain credit for this course. Failure to complete all of the components of
evaluation will result in an incomplete being assigned for this course.
¾ Quiz 20%
A quiz will be held on September 28, 2010 during the regular class period. The quiz will consist of multiple choice and short answer questions.
¾ Mid-term exam 25%
A mid-term exam will be held on October 28, 2010 during the regular class period. The exam will consist of multiple choice, short answer and essay questions.
¾ Essay 25%
An essay is due at the beginning of class on December 2, 2010. Guidelines for this assignment will be distributed and discussed during the second week of class.
¾ Final exam 30%
A final exam will be scheduled during the formal examination period. The exam will consist of short answer and essay questions.
There is an expectation that students will be present during all regularly scheduled classes and exams. Any exceptions need to be previously approved by the instructor or, in the case of illness, students will need to submit a note from their physician. Exams
must be written at designated times.
All assignments must be submitted at the start of class on the day the
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Late submissions will be penalized 5% if they are submitted on the day the assignment is due but after class has begun, and 10% for each regularly scheduled class day. All assignments must be submitted in paper form to the instructor.
Academic Misconduct:
Cheating: An act of deceit, distortion of the truth, or improper use of another person’s
effort to obtain an academic advantage.
Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Plagiarism or self-plagiarism;
(b) Copying another student’s examination or allowing a student to copy your examination;
(c) Using unauthorized information, books, notes, diagrams or other aids during an examination;
(d) Obtaining or using unauthorized material, such as a copy of an examination before it is given;
(e) Fabricating information, such as data for a lab report;
(f) Violating procedures prescribed to protect the integrity of an assignment, test or other evaluation;
(g) Collaborating with others on assignments without the instructor’s consent; (h) Having another person take an examination in one’s place; or submitting a
take-home examination or assignment as one’s own where completed in whole or in part by another person;
(i) Altering examination answers and requesting the examination be re-graded; (j) Communicating with any person during an examination, other than the
examination invigilator or faculty; (k) Helping another person cheat.
Plagiarism: The presentation of another person’s or source’s words and/or images
and/or ideas as if they were one’s own. It ranges from an entire assignment which is not the student’s own work to specific passages within an assignment taken from a source without acknowledgment. For plagiarism to occur, intent is not necessary; plagiarism can be either intentional or unintentional. In either case, it is unacceptable.
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Directly quoting the words of others, without using quotation marks or
indented format to identify them or otherwise indicating that words are directly quoted;
(b) Using sources of published or unpublished information without identifying them;
(c) Paraphrasing materials or ideas of others without identifying the sources; (d) Submitting work that another individual, including a tutor, has edited or
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(e) Borrowing all or part of another student’s paper or using someone else’s outline to write one’s own paper;
(f) Using a paper writing ‘‘service’’ or having another person write one’s paper; (g) In computer programming classes, using computer code from another person
and presenting it as one’s own
(h) Respondent: the person alleged to have committed cheating or fraud.
Students found to have plagiarized or cheated will be given a zero for the assignment and risk expulsion from both the Criminal Justice Program and Langara College.
Course Outline:
LECTURE TOPIC READINGS
September 7 Course overview and introductions September 9 An overview of law and the criminal
justice system
Chapter 1 September 14 The criminal justice system cont.
September 16 Types and prevalence of female victimization
Chapter 12 September 21 Intimate partner violence
September 23 Theoretical approaches to female victimization
Chapter 2 from “Violence Against Women in Canada” by Johnson & Dawson (to be distributed in class) September 28 Quiz
Theoretical approaches to victimization cont.
September 30 The justice system’s response to female victimization
Readings to be determined October 5 The justice system’s response cont.
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October 7 Connections between victimization and criminal offending
“Coping, resisting, and surviving” Comack, E. pg.33-43
“From victims to survivors to offenders” Gilfus, M. pg.5-14
both in In Her Own Words October 12 Risk factors for offending “The lives and times of
Asian-Pacific American Women Methamphetamine users” Joe-Laidler, K. pg.69-78
in In Her Own Words October 14 Types and prevalence of female
offending
Chapter 3 October 19 Female youth offenders Chapter 9 October 21 Theoretical approaches to female
offending
Chapter 2 October 26 Theoretical approaches cont.
October 28 Midterm exam Students are responsible for all lecture and readings covered up to this point November 2 The justice system’s response to
female offending
Chapter 6 November 4 The justice system’s response to
female offending cont.
November 9 Women in prison Chapter 5
November 11 Remembrance Day Classes cancelled
November 16 Aboriginal women and the justice system
Chapter 10 November 18 Visible minority women and the
justice system
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November 23 The portrayal of women and girls in the media
November 25 Women working in the justice system
Chapter 14 November 30 Women working in the justice
system cont.
Chapter 15 December 2 Essay due
Final exam review
