This is a course I taught to lawyers. If there is significant interest, I will revise and turn it into some form of manuscript for people to read and study. I have a CD that went with the course.
COURSE OUTLINE
Surviving a Criminal Practice in a
Postmodern Age
Dennis L. Blewitt
INTRODUCTION
- Introduce instructor, course materials, procedures, etc
- Introduce participants
- POV
- Influences views
- Causes understanding of interpretations
- Discuss readings, assignments, discussions.
- Like Inns of Court
- May have guests
- Emphasis
- Books
- Criminal Justice Through the Ages, by Medieval Crime Museum, Vol IV(b) Forsberg, Rothenberg o.d.T, 1993
- From Rothenberg Crime Museum
- Court orders form time of Charlemagne
- Saxonspeil
- Norman and Roman Law
- Rights of peasants
- Equivalent of const
- Torture devices
- Barbarism To Jury Justin Fleming, Harper Collins, Aukland, 1994
- British Barrister
- History of development of common law
- Africa, US , India, Pacific, Australia and New Zeland
- Perpetual Prison Machine
- Good statistical survey
- Emphasis on Media
- Explains politics
- Introduction to postmodern thought in Political system
- Discipline and Punish
a, French school
- Reviews punishment in Civil Law countries
- Age of Surveillance
- Basis of Continental penology
Lecture on Historical Development
- From Roman times
- Development of crime and punishment
- Views of crime
- Remedies
- Idea of sovereignty
- Discussion
- Magna Carta
- Materials
- List from CD
- Open History folder and read for next time with 1st book
- Assign discussion participants
Close at 10
WEEK TWO
- Discussion of materials
- Hammurabi
- Magna Charta
- Rights of Man
- Law of Wm
- Rights of Man
- Colonial rights
- Freeman
- Duties
- Weapon
- Corp structure
- Puritanism
- Constitution
- Drafting
- Bill of Rights
- Contrast with Crim Justice
- Compare with Crim Justice
- Contrast with Jury
- Compare with Jury
III Discussion
- Why history
- Why develop
- Why compare and contrast
- Philosophical basis
IV Modern era
- Industrial Revolution
- Why
- Movements afoot
- Themes
- Slavery, serfdom and status
- Emancipation
- Developing Sovereignty
- Religion and the Church
- Predatory behavior
- Forming Groups
- Rights
- Obligations Inherited
- Geography
- Cities and States
- Concept of State
- Corporation
- Hierarchy
- Inherited
- Challenged
- Important in French and German school
- Folder on policy prior to 1848
- Liberties of Englishmen
- Ohrmey Origin of State
V Discussion
WEEK THREE
- Review
- German and French folder
- German School
- AKA Frankford School
- Hitler ascending
- Mostly Jewish
- Pessimistic
- Contrast with Weber
- After Weber
- Weber WWI
- Started discussion on Political entity and bureaucracy
- Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Practice capitalism like religion
- Puritanism
- Values of puritans caused development
- Tocqueville
- Predestination
- Can redeem through work, straight, etc.
- God rewards good and punishes bad
- Welfare recipients bad
- French School
- Marcuse
- Boudriard
- Eccho (Italian)
- Sartre
- Particularly concerned with culture and its transmission
- Write your own history
- Step on own shadow
- Technology influences
- Affected American thought in 70's and 80's
- Mc Cluhan
- Chomsky
III Today
- Z magazine
- Dot com
- Impact on internet
- Bowling Alone
- Eleanor Rigby
- Lonely Crowd
IV Introduction to Capitalism
V Introduction to Social Capital
VI Theory of Change
VII Conflict Study
VIII Discussion
WEEK FOUR
- Critical Theory
- Habermas
- Between schools
- Now with German Govmt
- Some optimism unlike French and German Schools
II Review and Discuss
III Introduce Culture and Cultural Studies
- Different from Sociology
- Media theory
- Mc Cluhan
- Media is the message
- Discuss Perpetual Prison Machine
IV Review and relate
V Evaluate course and feedback
WEEK FIVE
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