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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
From:
L. Salter
Chair, SCAP
Date:
November 9, 1989
To: ?
Senate
Subject:
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School
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Criminology -
Curriculum revisions
Reference: SCUS 89-30
SCAP 89-39(b)
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning/Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies gives rise to the following motion:
Motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of Governors
as set forth in S.89-46 the proposed
New course CRIM 213 - 3
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The Female Offender"
For Information:
Revisions to ccurse descriptions and prerequisites.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY
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Ellen Gee, Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts
FROM: Brian Burtch, Undergraduate Director (Criminology)
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Proposed Calendar Changes in Criminology
DATE: July 12, 1989
The following proposals for Calendar changes to CRIM 104,
313, 333 were passed at our Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee meeting on June 21, 1989. The addition of a new,
second-year course - The Female Offender - was also approved
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by our U.C.C. These proposals have been circulated to our
faculty for comments.
The attached recommendations for calendar changes are now
being brought forward for consideration by the Curriculum
Subcommittee of the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee.
Thank you fcr your consideration.
PROPOSED CALENDAR CHANGES
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CRIM 104 COURSE DESCRIPTION
CURRENT: CRIM 104, Sociological Explanations of Crime
An introduction to sociological and social psychological
explanationsof
nonconformist conduct.. This goal is
accomplishedthrough the critical examination of several
distinct sociological perspectives
of
crime and deviance.
These perspectives include: anomie theory, neutralization
theory, control theory, group conflict theory, sub-cultural
theory, eco] 1
ogical theory and functionalist theory. Also
examines the assumptions upon which each of these theories,
is based.
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(Lecture/tutorial)
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SA
150 is
recommended.
PROPOSED: CRIM 104, Sociological Explanations of Crime
An introduction to sociological and social psychological
explanations of nonconformist
conduct. This goal is
accomplished through the critical examination of several
distinct sociological perspectives
on
crime and deviance.
These perspectives
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include: anomie theory, neutralization
theory, control theory, group conflict theory, sub-cultural
theory, ecological theory, functionalist theory,
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theory. Also examines the assumptions upon which
each of these theories
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is based.(Lecture/tutorial)
Prerequisite: SA 150 is recommended.
RATIONALE: The current description of CRIM 104 is dated, and
does not reflect the continuing interest in critical
theories of deviance (e.g., Marxist, neo--Marxist, feminist
theories). The proposed change would more accurately reflect
the course content and approach.
2.
CRIM 313 COURSE DESCRIPTION
CURRENT: SPECIFIC TYPES OF CRIMES
Critical analysis of specific types of crimes with
particular emphasis,on the nature, the incidence,
correlates, control and prevention. Special attention will
be given to white collar crime, computer crime, organized
crime, violent crime, political crimes, sexual offenders,
professional crimes, etc. (Seminar)
Prerequisite:
CRIM 101.
PROPOSED: SPECIFIC 'TYPES OF CRIMES
Critical analysis of a specific type of crime with
particular emphasis on the nature, the incidence,
correlates, control and prevention. Special attention may
en to white collar crime, computer crime, organized
crime, violent crime, political crimes, sexual offence
professional crime , m
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rajty
.. qijne, etc. (Seminar)
Prerequisite: CRIM 101.
RATIONALE: For approximately 10 years, this seminar has
served as an in-depth presentation of research and theory in
a particular area; e.g., robbery, illicit drug use,
homicide, and prostitution. The proposed change more
accurately reflects this focus on a particular crime, rather
than the wide-ranging set of crimes in the current Calendar
description.
3.
CRIM 333 COURSE DESCRIPTION
CURRENT: CRIM 333 Women, Law and the State
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This course will provide an in-depth consideration of the
relationship of women to the state and the law. The nature
of the contribution of criminal and family law to the
reproduction of gender relations will be analyzed. The
implications of legal intervention and non-intervention in
family relations, sex-specific and sex-related legislation
will be examined. Theoretical concepts and issues such as
patriarchal relations, sexuality and reproduction, and
formal and informal control will be addressed.
(Seminar)
Prerequisites:
CRIM 101 and CRIM
135 or
CRIM 230
PROPOSED:
"This course will provide an in-depth
consideration of
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of women to the state and the law.. ."
RATIONALE:
The feminist orientation in this seminar is made
explicit by the instructors, but there has been a problem
with students entering the seminar on the basis of the
calendar description. The inclusion of "feminist
perspectives" thus provides a more accurate reflection of
the contentof this course.
4. CRIM 338 PREREQUISITE
CRIMINOLOGY 338: PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
CURRENT:
Prerequisites: Students with credit for CRIM 130-3
may not take CRIM 338 for further credit.
PROPOSED:
Prerequisites: CR1M101. Students with credit for
CRIM 130-3 may not take CRIM 338 for further credit.
RATIONALE: CRIM
338 is the only upper-level, Criminology
course that does not list CRIM 101 (Introduction to
Criminology)
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as an automatic prerequisite. This is an
oversight, as the Calendar description for CRIM 101 (p. 155)
includes the following:
"NOTE:
CRIM 101 is a prerequisite
for all upper division Criminology courses unless waiver is
granted with the special permission of the school." The
proposed change would thus correct an oversight in the
Calendar description for CRIM 338.
NOTE: CRIM 130 (Philosophy of Law) has not been offered for
several years.
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5. CRIMINOLOGY 343: CHANGE OF CALENDAR DESCRIPTION
CURRENT:
Criminology 343: correctional Practice I
A consideration of the range of techniques in current
correctional practice employed to manage and reform the
offender; characteristics of the correctional client and
receptivity toward rehabilitation; explanations for failure;
the non-treatment effects of imprisonment; trends toward
privatization and deinstitution of techniques. (Seminar)
Prerequisites: CRIM 101. CRIM
241 Is strongly recommended.
Students
with credit for
CRIM
340-3
may
not take
CRIM
343-3
for
further
credit.
PROPOSED:
Criminology 343: Correctional Practice I
A consideration of the range of techniques in current
correctional practice employed to manage and reform the
offender; characteristics of the correctional client and
receptivity toward rehabilitation; explanations'for failure;
the non-treatment effects of imprisonment; trends toward
privatization and deinstitutionalization. (Seminar)
Prerequisites:
CRIM 101. CRIM
241 is strongly recommended.
Students with credit for
CRIM
340-3 may not
take
CRIM
343-3
for further credit.
RATIONALE: The final sentence has been amended to remove a
superfluous reference ("of techniques), and to replace.
"deinstitution" with "deinstitutionalization", the preferred
neologism.
NEW COURSE OFFERING: THE FEMALE OFFENDER
Briefly, this proposed course will provide a foundation
for students interested in criminal justice and the female
offender. This course will also increase our relatively
small number of second-year Criminology course offerings
(five, in the current Calendar) at S.F.U., and provide an
important teaching avenue for faculty who are currently
contributing to research on female offenders. As
Undergraduate Director, I am very supportive of this
initiative, and look forward to your comments and
suggestions.
Thank you for your consideration of these proposed
course changes.
c.c S. Verdun-Jones
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D. Palliser
SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL PORN
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1. Calendar Information
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Department:
CRIMINOLOGY
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Abbreviation
Code:CRIM Course Number
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Credit Hours:
3
Vector: 2-1-0
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Title
of Course:
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The Female Offender.
Calendar Description of Course: This course offers an historical and analytical
overview of the fenale offender, taking into account the
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function of gender
in both criminality and social responses to crime. Specific emphasis will
be given to feminist theories. Attention will focus on the specific crimes
for which girls and women are most often convicted, and patterns of control
and punishment.
Nature of Course
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(Lecture/Tutorial)
Prerequisites (or special instructions): None.
What course (courses),if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
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None.
2.
Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? Once a year.
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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Fall 1990.
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Which' of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? Dr. Karine Faith, Dr. Melody Hessing, Ms. Joan Brockman.
3.
Objectives of the Coure
It is primarily intended that this course will provide a needed foundation
for students majoring in Criminology who wish to either (a) acquire a basic
understanding of the female offender vis-a-vis both the criminal justice
system and criminological theory, or (b) establish a knowledge base for more
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advanced research in this area. Secondarily, it is expected that this course
would be of interest to non-Majors who have a particular or general interest
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
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in gender issues.
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
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None,
Staff ?
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None
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None
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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TO: Brian Burtch, Director
Criminology Undergraduate Program
FROM: Karlene Faith
SUBJECT: Calendar Addition
DATE: June 26, 1989
It is hereby requested that a new course, to be titled "The
Female Offender," be approved as a regular calendar-listed
offering at the 200 level.
The following includes:
I.
Proposed Calendar Descripton;
II. Rationale and Discussion;
III. Course Outline;
IV.
Selected Bibliography.
I.
Proposed
TITLE: CRIM 213-3: The Female Offender
This course offers an historical and analytical overview of the
female offender, taking into account the function of gender in
both criminality and social responses to crime. Specific
emphasis will be given to feminist theories. Attention will
focus on the specific crimes for which girls and women are most
often convicted, and patterns of control and punishment. (No
prerequisite) ?
(Lecture/Tutorial)
II.
Rationale and Discussion
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it is primarily intended that this course will provide a
needed foundation for students majoring in Criminology who
wish to either (a) acquire a basic understanding of the
female offender vis-a-vis both the criminal justice system
and criminological theory, or (b) establish a knowledge base
for more advanced research in this area. Secondarily, it is
expected that this course would be of interest to non-majors
who have a particular or general interest in gender issues.
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2.
Literature on the female offender has proliferated during
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the past two
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decades (see bibliography) and the trend
promises to continue.
3.
Given the general overview nature of the proposed course, it
is expected that the course could be offered on a regular
basis. Qualified instructors would be available from within
the School of Criminology, including Karlene Faith, Joan
Brockman and Melody Hessing.
4.
The proposed course does not replicate any existing course
at SFU, and is to be distinguished from four female-related
criminology courses which have been taught previously. The
following is a brief discussion of those four courses, with
perspective on curriculum development in the area of
feminist criminology.
a)
CRIM 333-3 -Women, Law and the State
This course has been offered on a regular basis since 1984,
when it was initiated by Shelley Gavigan. In the past
several year
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Adjunct Proflessor of the School of Criminology, and also by
Karlene Faith. This course includes (minimal) attention to
the female offender but is more generally concerned with
family law, female victimization, protective legislation and
criminal law, reproduction and medicalization, and so on,
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with an emphasis on the function of the state in maintenance
of and/or change in gender relations.
b)
CRIM 416/7/8-3 - The Female as Political Offender
This Special Topics course was offered, for the first time,
at SFU in the spring, 1989. Student response suggests that
it may be appropriate to offer this course on a regular
basis. Howekrer, the scholarly research is still in the
nascent
stages,
and the course should remain as a "special"
topic until such time as the literature justifies a
curriculum cmmitment. The proposed course on "the female
offender" woi1d be an appropriate prerequisite for this
Special Topics course, which draws on political theory for
advanced study of female offenders convicted of political
crime.
c)
Women and the Criminal Justice System
Since 1972 t I o recently, Dr. Faith has taught variations of
this course under numerous titles (e.g. "Women in Prison.")
Given that this course has almost invariably provided
students with
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their only or introductory contact with
material inclusive of the female, it has been imperative to
present a broad survey of i) female as victim; ii) female as
criminal defendant; iii) female incarceration; iv) women
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3.
working in criminal justice. The theme of "female as
victim" is now covered substantially in CRIM 333-3, and has
been a component of numerous special topics courses and
other regular criminology offerings. It would be similarly
useful to offer an occasional special topics course on women
in policing, corrections, etc. The proposed course on "the
female offender" will allow for more focused attention on
the female as criminal defendant and female incarceration.
d) CRIM 311-3 - Minorities and the Criminal Justice System
The female offender constitutes just one unit of this course
as it is offered on campus. The distance education version,
which Dr. Faith co-authored with Dr. Yerbury, has a major
section on the female offender, which follows an abbreviated
outline of "women and the criminal justice system" as
discussed above. Currently CRIM 311-3 is the only course
with material on the female offender (et al) which is
available to distance education students. If another course
(e.g. CRIM 333 or the proposed "female offender" course)
were to be developed for distance learners, the section on
women in CRIM 311-3 would be significantly reduced.
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III. Proposed Coirse Outline
Title: CRIM 213-3 - The Female Offender
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Frances Heidensohn, Women & Crime. London: MacMillan,
1985.
Ellen Adelberg and Claudia Currie, (Eds.) Too Few to
Count: Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law.
Vancouver: Press Gang, 1987.
Course Descriotion
This course offers an historical and analytical overview of the
female offender, taking into account the function of gender in
both criminality and social responses to crime. Specific.
emphasis will be given to feminist theories. Attention will
focus on the specfic crimes for which girls and women are most
often convicted, and patterns of control and punishment (No
prerequisite) (Lcture/Tutorial)
Evaluation
Tutorial Participation
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15%
Mid-Term Exam
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25%
Essay ?
30%
Final Exam
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30%
Weekly Topic Schedule
1.
Introductionand Statistical Overview.
2.
Traditional Theoretical Perspectives on Gender, Crime and
Social Control.
3.
ContemporaryTheoretical Perspectives on Gender
Construction6 Crime and Social Control.
4.
Prostitutionand the Sexualization of Female Offenders.
5.
Property Crime and Gender Division
6. Crimes of Viclence by Women.
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Special Categories: Native Women and the Young Offender.
8.
Mid-Term Exam.
9.
Female Incarceration in Canada: Provincial/Federal Overview.
10.
Sexual Politics of Prison Social Organization.
11.
Media Images of Women in Prison.
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12.
Alternative Responses to Female Criminality (to include
discussions with women incarcerated in B.C. correctional
facilities)
13.
Summary and Conclusions.
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