Instructor: John M Hagedorn
Office: 413-2472; BSB 4050C
Milwaukeee Office 414-229-5916. Home 414-332-3746
e-mail: huk@csd.uwm.edu
Office hours: 12-2pm Monday and Wednesday
Teaching Assistant: Nanette Casanova
413--4116 BSB 4030D
Office hours: to be announced
Texts: Charles Perrow, Complex Organizations: a critical essay. 3rd Edition, 1986. McGraw-Hill
Stan Stojkovic, John Klofas, and David Kalinich, The Administration and Management of Criminal Justice Organizations: A Book of Readings. 2nd Edition. 1994. Waveland Press
There will be two exams and one 5-10 page paper required.
Both exams will be open book, open note, with most questions short answer or multiple choice and the remainder short essays (that means paragraph-long answers). That may sound good, but the questions will require you to not only know the material covered, but actually think about it and be able to apply it.
The paper must be between 5 and 10 pages, no shorter no longer, not including references or any figures, tables, or appendixes. The paper will apply two different organizational perspectives to a criminal justice organization. It must include at least three references, not all from our texts, and at least one interview or personal observation of a criminal justice organization.
You will be required to hand in at the beginning of each class where a reading is required a one paragraph summary of the main point of the reading, or questions about something in the reading you didn’t understand. Students will receive up to five points at the end of the semester for handing in the summaries.
Grading will follow A, B, C, D, F format, 90s are As, 80s are Bs, 70s are Cs, 60s are Ds 59 and lower, take the class again. I f you attend class, do the readings, and try, you will pass, but I can't promise more than that. I will make it difficult, but not impossible, to get an A.
Attendence and participation in Monday and Wednesday class is optional. I will cover material in the lectures that is not in the readings, so it is doubtful that most students could pass the course without attending class. But if you can, good luck.
Attendance and participation in the Friday Discussion class is required. You will receive one point for every two Friday discussion sections attended, up to a maximum of five points.
The final grade will be based on five points for attending discussion class, five points for summaries of readings, 25 points for the midterm, 40 points for the final, 5 points for the outline of the paper and 20 points for the paper. Up to 5 extra points will be awarded, at the instructor’s discretion, for class participation, especially for those who help other students understand the readings in the discussion section.
Monday January 12: Introduction to 240. Expectations, syllabus, questions, all that stuff. Assignment:, watch NYPD Blue tomorrow night. What do you notice about how a criminal justice organization works from that show?
Wednesday January 14: Discuss NYPD Blue. Weber: "Characteristics of a Bureaucracy" (hand-out).
Friday January 6: Stojkovic et al. Chapter 10: pp 168-180. Questions about the course.
Monday January 19: No class: Martin Luther King Day
Wednesday January 21: Perrow Chapter One pp 1-48
Friday January 23:. Stojkovic et al. Chapter 5: pp 70-84.
Monday January 26: More discussion of Perrow.
Wednesday January 28: Perrow Chapter 2 pp 49-78 Summary of Weber's model
Friday January 30: Sum-up of rational organizational model. Discussion of selection of topics for papers.
Monday February 2: Perrow Chapter 3: pp 79-118
Wednesday February 4 More on Human Relations model
Friday February 6: : Stojkovic et al. Chapter 11 Toch pp 181-197
Monday February 9: Rosabeth Moss Kanter pp 206-242. (hand-out)
Wednesday February 11: Discussion of gender and bureaucracy
Friday February 13: Stojkovic et al.Chapter 13 pp 232-244.
Monday February 16: Perrow chapter 5 pp 157-177
Wednesday February 18: Discussion of Perrow:
Friday February 20: Stojkovic et al. Chapter 1 Feeley pp 3-18, . Chapter 25 Doleschal 441-459
Monday February 23: Perrow Chapter 4 pp 119-156.
Wednesday February 25: Review for Midterm (Optional Reading Perrow chapter 8 pp 258-278)
Friday February 27: Review for Midterm
Monday March 2: , Midterm Exam
Wednesday March 4: Go Over Exams. Discussion of the paper. How to interview.
Friday March 6: Finish discussing exams. Topics for papers and help with writing the outline.
Monday March 9: ; Forsaking Our Children Chapters 5 and 6 pp 77-114. (handout)
Wednesday March 11: Forsaking Chapter 7; p117-137
Friday March 13: last class before spring break. Optional discussion group. all students must have designated a topic for paper and handed in an outline.
March 16-20 Spring Break no classes
Monday March 23: Case Study # 2 Community Policing. Chip Coldren. Speaker: TBA.
Wednesday March 25: More on police
Friday March 27: Stojkovic et al. Chapter Six; Eck & Spelling 87-103; Chapter Seven Fyfe 104-124
Monday March 30: Case Study # 3 Prison. Rosa
Wednesday April 1. More on prisons
Friday April 3: . Stojkovic et al. Kalinich and Stojkovic Chapters 16, Hepburn chapter 17 and Crouch and Marquardt Chapter 18 pp 272-331.
Monday April 6: Case Study #4 Gangs: Joint class with CrJ 102: Jess Maghan. Gangs, organization, and morality.
Wednesday April 8:. "Neighborhoods, Markets, and Gang Drug Organization." (handout).
Friday April 10: Discussion Section open for questions and TA help on papers. Extra time to work on papers.
Monday April 13: Case Study # 5. The Criminal Justice System. Stojkovic et al. Chapter 2 Wright 19-31; Chapter Three Koflas pp 32- 50;
Wednesday April 15: More on the Criminal Justice System.
Friday April 17: Discussion Section open for questions and TA help on papers. Extra time to work on papers.
Monday April 20: Papers due. Slack Week. Either more on a topic covered earlier, a new case study (i.e courts, public defender, probation, etc) or sessions on the internet and criminal justice.
Wednesday April 22 Hand Out. Morality and organizations.
Friday April 24 Discussion Group.
Monday April 27: Review for Final Exam.
Wednesday April 29: Review for Final Exam.
Friday May 1: Instruction Ends. Last discussion group before Final Exam. Return papers.
May 4 to May 8. Final Exam Week. Good luck!