HLG 60R: Crime and Punishment |
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| Spring Semester
2001, Session 3 Semester Length MTH:2:45-4:20 Instructor: Silvia Federici Office Hours MTH 4:20-5:20 E-mail: NUCSZF@Hofstra.Edu |
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Syllabus |
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Part 1: Theories of Punishment |
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| Jan. 29 | Introduction |
| Feb. 1 |
Philosophical Perspectives
on Punishment: Utilitarianism and Retributivism |
| Feb. 5 | Philosophical
Perspectives: Plato, Kant and Bentham Reading: (RP), Ezorsky: pp. 37-39; 56-58; 103-106 |
| Feb. 8 | Ironic and Satiric
Literary Views on Punishment Reading: (RP), Ezorsky: Essay by Shaw and excerpts from Butler’s Erewhon |
| Feb. 12 | Social Theories
on Punishment 1: Beccaria and the Enlightenment’s Legal Reform Reading: (RP), excerpts from On Crimes and Punishments |
| Feb. 15 | Social Theories
on Punishment 2: A Sociological Viewpoint. Reading: (RP), Durkheim on Mechanical Sociality and Collective Revenge |
| Feb. 22 | Social Theories
on Punishment 3: Foucault and the Discovery of Disciplinary Regimes. From
Corporal Punishment to The Prison. Reading: (RP), Foucault on the body of the condemned |
Part 2: Systems of Punishment |
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| Feb. 26 | The U.S. Prison
System Reading: (RP), Joel Dyer, excerpts from The Perpetual Prison Machine |
| Mar. 1 | A Therapeutic
Alternative Reading: Punishment and the Death Penalty (P&DP), pp. 41-49 |
Part 3: The Debate on Capital Punishment |
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| Mar. 5 | Capital Punishment
in US History Reading: (P&DP). pp. 103-110, 223-240 |
| Mar. 8 | The Abolitionist
Campaign Reading: (P&DP), pp. 111-124 |
| Mar. 12 | A Defense of
Capital Punishment Reading: (P&DP), pp. 125-136, 151-160 |
| Mar. 15 | Innocence and
the Death Penalty Reading: (P&DP), pp. 95-102; 141-149 |
| Mar. 19 | FINAL EXAM |