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In CJ-238W, you will study the law of corrections and the criminal justice system.

We will be studying the following chapters in the textbook, //Legal Aspects of Corrections Management// by Clair A. Cripe and Michael G. Pearlman, 2nd Edition (2005), Jones and Bartlett Publishers:

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Law and to the Legal Aspects of Corrections Management Chapter 2: Corrections and the Criminal Justice System Chapter 3: Habeas, Torts and Section 1983 Chapter 4: Going to Court Chapter 5: A General View of Prisoners' Rights Under the Constitution Chapter 6: Access to Courts Chapter 7: First Amendment: Inmate Mail Chapter 8: First Amendment: Inmate Association Rights and Visiting Chapter 9: First Amendment: Religion Chapter 10: Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure, and Privacy Chapter 11: Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments: Due Process - Inmate Discipline Chapter 12: Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments: Due Process - Classification, Transfers, Pesonal Injuries, and Property Loss Chapter 13: Fourteenth Amendments: Equal Protection - Female Offenders and Others Chapter 14: Eighth Amendment: The Death Penalty and Other Sentencing Issues Chapter 15: Eighth Amendment: Conditions of Confinement - Cruel and Unusual Punishment Chapter 16: Eighth Amendment: Heath Care Chapter 17: Probation and Parole, Community Corrections, and Fines Chapter 20: Jails Chapter 21: Juveniles and Young Offenders

Each Chapter above is a link to the wikipage for that chapter in your textbook. Your textbook is available at the Delta College bookstore, but you can probably find it cheaper at Amazon.com. Click on this link to find a used textbook, starting at $34.42: []

You can click here for the syllabus.

__How this class is organized:__ Always sign into Educator first and enter the class Educator site. There will be a weekly link in the Educator announcments that will take you to the packet for the chapters that we are studying each week. Always follow this link for the packet. The first thing you should click on once you are in the packet is the tasksheet. The tasksheet will contain all the links that you need to complete each chapter we study in CJ-238W, including Educator links and wikispaces links.

There will always be a link in each packet in Educator that will take you HERE - to the class wiki. Additionally, the wiki address is: http://cj238.wikispaces.com/

__How each chapter will be organized:__ We will be studying one, one and a half, or two chapters per week. Refer to the syllabus for the schedule. You are required to __read each chapter before coming to class.__ But, you don't have to do this all at once, or at the same time. There will be audio/video files to accompany each section in the chapter. There will also be audio/visual files that discuss the case law in each section in the chapter. Here is the schedule I recommend to get the maximum benefit from this class:

-Use the audio/visual files (in wikispaces) to accompany the reading of each chapter in the textbook. Each chapter is broken up into smaller parts. Make sure that you never skip the first audio/visual for each chapter because that will always be the introductory material for that chapter. -You will be instructed to read a section in the textbook and then watch and listen to the presentation for that section. This will be continued until the whole chapter is read/presented. -At the end of each chapter, you have the option of using an audio/visual file to go through the __chapter summary__, or you can just read it. -Next, study the chapter summary. After watching the audio/visual for the chapter's summary (or just reading it yourself), you should complete that chapter quiz in Educator. The deadline for each chapter quiz is by Saturday following the class session, by 11:59 p.m. -Once again, the above steps should be followed for the reading of the complete chapter before coming to class. See the syllable for the chapter(s) for the week. -In each class session, we will devote approximately half the class to going through the case law in each chapter. The other half of the class will be devoted to group work. We will not go through the general lecture during class time. You do this online before coming to that class session. -During the second part of class, studnets will be broken up into small groups and be given hypothetical situations with questions to solve. Solving these hypothetical situations will require the application of material learned both in and out of class. -The last 30 to 45 minutes of class will be used for informal reporting from each group about the case law that would be used to solve each hypothetical situation. Notes should be taken by each student about the case law pertinent to a particular hypothetical situation. -There is also a written assignment for these hypothetical situations, which must be completed by each student in the class. The written assignments will be completed in the wikispace that will be provided to you. You will always share this space with me, your teacher. I can type suggestions and comments directly into your documents, and you will have one chance to redo an assignment before your grade is recorded. We will go over how to use your wikispace in class. Before completing an assignment, you should read the scoring rubric in Educator for the assignment. Be sure to use the suggested format (described in the Syllabus). This format must be used to earn maximum points. Your grade will be recorded in Educator, where the scoring rubric parts and points are displayed. -Before completing each written assignment, please listen to the audio/visual presentations for the case law in the chapter, as you read the chapter(s) assignment for the week. If you attended class and participated in the group work, you will know which cases should be used to solve a given hypothetical situation. Watching the presentations in Educator will give you the information you need from these cases to support your answers to the questions asked in each hypothetical situation.

(My note to my colleagues and myself: I currently have created the first audio/visual file for Chapter 14 in this wiki. I created a PowerPoint file, added audio, and converted it to a video using AuthorStream.com. However, I don't like the audio quality of AuthorStream's conversion of my file. My audio was much clearer in PowerPoint, and would be much clearer in Educator. Also, the video that Author.Stream created for me still requires a click to advance each individual slide, and a click on the "Sound Icon" to hear the audio. So, I'm thinking now that maybe I could use Jing to narrate my PowerPoint slide presentations (as Cindy did & shared with us). After using Jing to capture the PowerPoint slideshow with audio, I could put this straight into Educator with Educator's link capabilities.)

(Since I won't be teaching CJ-238W next year and maybe never again, I think I will figure out how to get audio & video files into Educator for my students who took an "incomplete" for Winter, 2009. Since only one of these students is currently working on her incomplete, I guess the rest are waiting until Fall, 2009, so it can all be done at the last minute. My thinking is that I will use my newly-created PowerPoint slides and add audio. The whole presentation would then be posted into my Winter, 2209, Educator site (the publisher's PowerPoint slides, without audio, are already posted in my Educator site.)