Saint Martin’s College
Department of Criminal Justice
Spring Semester 2004
Criminal Justice/Women Studies 395: Women and the Law
Professor: Victor M. Kogan
Office: Room 307
Classroom: 351
Time: 01:00 PM-02:20 PM
Days: T-Tr
Office Hours: 10:00-12:00 M-T-W-TR-F
Office Phone: 438-4348
E-mail: vkogan@stmartin.edu
PURPOSE:
This course is designed to introduce you into field of women’s fight for equal opportunity and equality before the law in employment, education, family and criminal justice. You will study the women’s struggle against gender discrimination in a wide legal and social context.
REQUERED TEXTBOOKS:
Catharine M. MacKinnon. Sex Equality: Family Law, New York, Foundation Press, 2001.
Clare Cushman (ed). Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, CQ Press, Washington D.C., 2001.
B. Raffle Price & N. J. Sokoloff (eds).The Criminal Justice System and Women. Offenders, Prisoners, Victim and Workers, Third Edition, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2004.
CLASS REQUIREMENTS:
You will be invited to actively participate in learning rather than passively absorbing information.
1. Each student will be assigned writing a short essay for each discussion so that concepts based upon the source materials may be formulated, tested and mastered. You have to have a green folder to keep your essays together. These essays will be presented orally to the class. If your essay is late you get minus point. The later your essay is the more points you get off.
2. You are expected to attend class in order to actively participate in class discussions. Your grade will be lowered for each absence with no excuse more than once.
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have medical and/or safety concerns to share with me, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as-soon-as possible.
MID-TERM PAPER AND FINAL PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
Your Mid-term Paper and Final Paper on the topics that will be offered to you must include
a) An introduction outlining the issue or problem,
b) A presentation of opposing viewpoints using at least three additional references,
c) A conclusion summarizing your point.
The length of a Mid-term paper has to be 5 typed double spaced pages. The length of a Final paper has to be 10 double spaced pages.
GRADING SYSTEM:
1.Participation in class discussion, including essays–40%,
2.Mid-term paper - 20%,
3.Exam (Final paper) - 40%.
There will be 500 possible points and grades will be assigned as follows:
95-100% = A
90-94% = A-
85-89% = B+
80-84% = B
75-79% = B-
70-74% = C+
64-69% = C
60-64 = C-
55-59% = D
54 and below = F
COURSE OUTLINE:
01.Jan.13.T.- 02.Jan.15.Tr.
Equality under Law, Read Sex Equality: Family Law, Read Catharine M. MacKinnon. Sex Equality: Family Law, New York, Foundation Press, 2001, p.3-50.
03.Jan.20.T.
Romantic Paternalism, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights,p.12-26.
04.Jan.22.Tr.- 05.Jan.27.T.
Sex Discrimination: The Search for a Standard, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, p. 37-67.
06.Jan.29.Tr.
Single-Sex Schools, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, p. 86-97.
07.Feb.03.T.
Different Treatment of Men and Women, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, p.98-116.
08.Feb.05.Tr.- 09.Feb.10.T.
The Reproductive Family, Read Sex Equality: Family Law,
The “Illegitimate” Family, p.577-624.
10.Feb.12.Tr.- 11.Feb.17.T.- 12.Feb.19.Tr.
The Reproductive Family, Read Sex Equality: Family Law,
The “Legitimate” Family, p. 624-680.
13.Feb.24.T.
The Economic Family, Read Sex Equality: Family Law, p. 680-714.
14.Feb.26.Tr.
Pregnancy and Childbirth, Read Supreme Court Decisions,
p. 164-181. Mid-Term Paper is due
15.Mar.02.T.
Women in the Family: From Subordinates to Equal Partners, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, p. 68-85.
16.Mar.04.Tr. Mid-Term Paper Discussion
00.Mar.08.M. Mid-semester grades due in the Office of the Registrar
17.Mar.09.T. - 18.Mar.11.Tr.
1. Natalie J. Sokoloff, Barbara Raffel Price, and Jeanne Flavin, The Criminal Law and Women, p.11-26.
2. Jeanne Flavin, Feminism for the Mainstream Criminologist: An Invitation.
P.31-45.
3. Jody Miller, Feminist Theory of Women's Crime: Robbery as a Case Study,
p.51-65.
4. Emily Gaarder and Joanne Belknap, Tenuous Borders: Girls Transferred to Adult
Courts, p. 69-89.
5. Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz, Trends in Female Crime: Is Crime
Still a Man's World? p.95-108.
6. Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz, Contemporary Explanations of
Women's Crime ,p.113-124.
7. Lisa Maher, A Reserve Army: Women and the Drug Market, p. 127-142.
8. Kamala Kempadoo, Prostitution and The Globalization of Sex Worker's Rights,
p. 147-160.
9. Lynn Paltrow, The War on Drugs and the War on Abortion, p. 165-183.
00.Mar.13. - Mar.21. Spring vacation
19.Mar.23.T. - 20.Mar.25.Tr.
Read Sex Equality: Family Law:
Wife-Beating is Not Condoned, p. 724-731.
Women-Battering as Sex Discrimination, p. 732-744.
Killing Batterers in Self-Defense, p. 745-765.
21.Mar.30.T.- 22.Apr.01.Tr.
18. Neil Websdale and Meda
Chesney-Lind, Doing Violence to Women: Research Synthesis on the Victimization
of Women, p.303-318.
19. Kathryn Feltey, Gender Violence: Rape and Sexual Assault, p. 323-333.
20. Jennifer Wriggins, Rape, Racism, and the Law, p. 335-341.
21. Angela Browne, Fear and the Perception of Alternatives: Asking "Why Battered
Women Don't Leave" Is the Wrong Question, p. 343-357.
22. Shamita Das Dasgupta, Women's Realities: Defining Violence Against Women by
Immigration, Race, and Class, p. 361-371.
23. Carolyn West, Leaving a Second Closet: "Outing" Partner Violence in Same-Sex
Couples, p. 375-386.
24. Carolyn Renae Griggs, Domestic Violence in Police Families, p. 391-401.
25. Lois Presser and Emily Gaarder, Can Restorative Justice Reduce Battering? p.
403-414.
26. Georganne Rundblad, Gender, Power, and Sexual Harassment, p.419-428.
27. Marjan Wijers, Women, Labor, and Migration: The Position of Trafficked Women
and Strategies for Support, p. 431-438.
28. Newsday, Dreams Ending in Nightmares: Many Immigrant Women, Girls Trapped in
Sex Industry, p. 441-446.
23.Apr.04.06.T. - 24.Apr.08.Tr.
10. Barbara Owen, Women and
Imprisonment in the U.S.: The Gendered Consequences of the U.S. Imprisonment
Binge, p. 195-202.
11. Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y. Davis, Women in Prison: Researching Race in
Three National Contexts (Netherlands, Cuba, and U.S.), p. 207-218.
12. Julia Sudbury, Women of Color, Globalization, and the Politics of
Incarceration, p. 219-232.
13. Luana Ross, Resistance and Survivance: Cultural Genocide and Imprisoned
Native Women, p. 235-246.
14. Kathryn Ann Farr, Defeminizing and Dehumanizing Female Murderers: Depictions
of Lesbians on Death Row, p.249-258.
15. Diane F. Reed and Edward L. Reed, Mothers in Prison and Their Children, p.
261-271.
16. Nina Siegal, Stopping
Abuse of Women in Prison, p. 275-279.
17. Karlene Faith, Progressive Rhetoric, Regressive Policies: Canadian Prisons
for Women, p. 281-287.
00. Apr.09 – Apr. 12.Easter Recess: No classes
25.Apr.13.T. - 26.Apr.15.Tr.
WOMEN WORKERS
Discrimination in the Workplace, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, p. 117-151.
Sexual Harassment, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, p. 152-163.
27.Apr.20.T. Final paper completion: No class
00.Apr.22.T. Final paper is due
28.Apr.22.Tr. - 29.Apr.27.T. - 30.Apr.29.Tr.
WOMEN WORKERS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
29. Lynn Hecht Schafran,
Overwhelming Evidence: Gender and Race Bias against Women in the Courts, p.
456-469.
30. Jeffrey Toobin, Women in Black: Are Female Judges More Compassionate?
P. 473-481.
31. Dorothy Moses Schulz, Invisible No More: A Social History of Women in U.S.
Policing, p. 483-492.
32. Penny Harrington and Kim Lonsway, Current Barriers and Future Promise for
Women in Policing, p.495-508.
33. Susan Miller, Kay Forest, and Nancy Jurik, Lesbians in Policing: Perceptions
of and Work Experiences in the Macho Cop Culture, p. 511-524.
34. Susan E. Martin, The Interactive Effects of Race and Sex on Women Police
Officers, p. 527-540.
35. Joanne Belknap, Women in Conflict: An Analysis of Women Correctional
Officers, p.543-558.
36. Nanci Koser Wilson and Imogene L. Moyer, Affirmative Action,
Multiculturalism, and Criminology, p. 563-575.
Addendum to 36. Nancy Jurik and Gray Cavender, Feminism, Multiculturalism and
the Justice Studies Movement, p.577-579.
Jury Duty, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, p. 27-36.
Leading the Way, Read Supreme Court Decisions and Women‘s Rights, p. 207-260.
00.May 04.T. FINAL EXAM from 01:00 to 03:00 pm (room 351)