WW 10B
Winter 2007


Warren College Writing Program
University of California, San Diego

Crime and Punishment: America's Prisons


Monday & Wednesday 12:30 - 1:50
Monday & Wednesday   2:00 - 3:20

Monday & Wednesday 3:30 - 4:50
Jason Homer
Office Hours: M/W 10:30 - 12:20 or by appointment
Office:            EBU3b
Email:           
jhomerucsd@yahoo.com
General Links:
* How to do MLA Citations
*
Style and Grammar Guide from Purdue
  
University (look to the "Navigation" section
   on the right side of the screen)
*
Geisel Library's ROGER website
* Geisel Library's SAGE website
Links to more information on prisons:
* The U.S. Bureau of Justice website on crime
  and corrections statistics
*
Prisons, Privatization and Public Values
   (history, statistics, and pros and cons of prison
   privatization)
*
The California Prison Crisis
Study questions for class readings:
*
Ted Alleman, "Correctional Philosophies:
  
Varying Ideologies of Punishment"
*
Warren Burger, "Prisons Should Rehabilitate"
*
Stephen Chinlund, "Prison: Punishment and
  
Resocialization Must Go Together"
* Graeme Newman, "Pain and Punishment"
* Angela Davis, "Racialized Punishment and
  
Prison Abolition"
* Charles Logan, "Private Prisons are Just"
*
Michael Walzer, "Private Prisons are Unjust"
* Malcolm Feeley, "The Privatization of Prisons
  
in Historical Perspective"
*
James Jacobs, "Prison Reform Amid the Ruins
  
of Prisoners' Rights"
* John Irwin, "Disintegration"
*
John Irwin, "Preparation"
*
Jessie Krienert and Mark Fleisher, "Economic
  
Rehabilitation: A Reassessment of the Link
  
Between Employment and Crime"
Sample Writing:
*
Summary of "Driving While Black"
* Still having trouble with Assignment 1E? Look
  
here for some examples of successful student
  
writing from last quarter.
* Having trouble with warrants? Look at this
  
example of warrant analysis from Assignment 1B.
*
Examples of successful Assignment 1E papers.
  
Look here to see how some students this quarter
  
wrote strong analysis.
*
Sample 'C' Paper: Assignment 2C
  
Sample 'B' Paper: Assignment 2C
  
Sample 'A' Paper: Assignment 2C