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A Troubling Success Story: Revisiting a Classic Deviance Assignment in a Criminology Course
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Bordt, Rebecca. 2010. “A Troubling Success Story: Revisiting a Classic Deviance Assignment in a Criminology Course”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/a-troubling-success-story-revisiting-a-classic.

Abstract

In this paper, I present a classroom exercise that succeeded intellectually, yet, was troubling on a practical level. After describing the classroom setting, the assignment and its pedagogical purpose, I report the aggregate results of the "successful" exercise as implemented in classes over the course of a number of years and, more importantly, what went...

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Social Control
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Class Level(s):
Any Level

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