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

1. Introduce instructor, course materials, procedures, etc
2. Introduce participants
1. POV
2. Influences views
3. Causes understanding of interpretations
3. Discuss readings, assignments, discussions.

1. Like Inns of Court
2. May have guests
3. Emphasis

2. Books

1. Criminal Justice Through the Ages, by Medieval Crime Museum, Vol IV(b) Forsberg, Rothenberg o.d.T, 1993
1. From Rothenberg Crime Museum
2. Court orders form time of Charlemagne
3. Saxonspeil
4. Norman and Roman Law
5. Rights of peasants
6. Equivalent of const
7. Torture devices
2. Barbarism To Jury Justin Fleming, Harper Collins, Aukland, 1994

1. British Barrister
2. History of development of common law
3. Africa, US , India, Pacific, Australia and New Zeland
1. Perpetual Prison Machine

1. Good statistical survey
2. Emphasis on Media
3. Explains politics
4. Introduction to postmodern thought in Political system
1. Discipline and Punish

a, French school

1. Reviews punishment in Civil Law countries
2. Age of Surveillance
3. Basis of Continental penology

Lecture on Historical Development

1. From Roman times
2. Development of crime and punishment
3. Views of crime
4. Remedies
5. Idea of sovereignty
6. Discussion
7. 
   
8. Magna Carta
9. Materials

1. List from CD
2. Open History folder and read for next time with 1st book
3. Assign discussion participants

Close at 10

WEEK TWO

1. Discussion of materials

1. Hammurabi
2. Magna Charta
3. Rights of Man
4. Law of Wm
5. Rights of Man
6. Colonial rights

1. Freeman
2. Duties
3. Weapon
4. Corp structure
5. Puritanism
1. Constitution

1. Drafting
2. Bill of Rights
3. Contrast with Crim Justice
4. Compare with Crim Justice
5. Contrast with Jury
6. Compare with Jury

III Discussion

1. Why history
2. Why develop
3. Why compare and contrast
4. Philosophical basis

IV Modern era

1. Industrial Revolution

1. Why
2. Movements afoot
3. Themes
1. Slavery, serfdom and status
2. Emancipation
3. Developing Sovereignty
4. Religion and the Church
5. Predatory behavior
6. Forming Groups
1. Rights
2. Obligations Inherited
3. Geography
4. Cities and States
5. 
   
6. Concept of State
7. Corporation
7. Hierarchy

1. Inherited
2. Challenged
3. Important in French and German school
1. Folder on policy prior to 1848
2. Liberties of Englishmen
3. Ohrmey Origin of State

V Discussion

WEEK   THREE

1. Review
2. German and French folder

1. German School

1. AKA Frankford School

1. Hitler ascending
2. Mostly Jewish
3. Pessimistic
4. Contrast with Weber

1. After Weber
2. Weber WWI
3. Started discussion on Political entity and bureaucracy
4. Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1. Practice capitalism like religion
2. Puritanism
1. Values of puritans caused development
2. Tocqueville
3. Predestination
4. Can redeem through work, straight, etc.
5. God rewards good and punishes bad
6. Welfare recipients bad
1. French School

1. Marcuse
2. Boudriard
3. Eccho (Italian)
4. Sartre
5. Particularly concerned with culture and its transmission
6. Write your own history
7. Step on own shadow
8. Technology influences
1. Affected American thought in 70's and 80's

1. Mc Cluhan
2. Chomsky

III Today

1. Z magazine
2. Dot com
3. Impact on internet
4. 
   
5. Bowling Alone
6. Eleanor Rigby
7. Lonely Crowd

IV Introduction to Capitalism

V Introduction to Social Capital

VI Theory of Change

VII Conflict Study

VIII Discussion

WEEK   FOUR

1. Critical Theory

1. Habermas

1. Between schools
2. Now with German Govmt
3. Some optimism unlike French and German Schools

II Review and Discuss

III Introduce Culture and Cultural Studies

1. Different from Sociology
2. Media theory

1. Mc Cluhan
2. Media is the message
3. Discuss Perpetual Prison Machine

IV Review and relate

V Evaluate course and feedback

WEEK   FIVE