Department of Sociology, Social Work
& Criminal Justice

CRJ 453 Family Violence

Instructor: Dr. Fran FullerSemester: Fall, 2002
Class Location: BA Bldg 220
Office: Rm 205 BA (Tel: 910-521-6473)		Time: M W F 1:30 - 2:20 PM
Office Hours: 3-4pm Tuesdays, 4-5pm M-Th & by Appointment
Office: Rm 205 BA (Tel: 910-521-6473)"> M W F 1:30 - 2:20 PM
Office Hours: 3-4pm Tuesdays, 4-5pm M-Th & by Appointment">

Description
CRJ 453. Family Violence
 Historical, cross-cultural and current issues in family and domestic violence, with attention to child abuse, couple violence, and the responses of criminal justice, counseling and social service agencies. Credit 3 semester hours.

Goals
As an advanced elective course in Criminal Justice, CRJ 453. Family Violence gives students an opportunity to bring a variety of academic skills to bear in enhancing their understanding and ability to communicate about a topic of current importance in Criminal Justice with serious ramifications in the social and political world. These skills include: case and issue research, statistical interpretation, the organization of notes and documents, formal referencing and citation, informal research team building, rational analysis, and formal presentation techniques.

Objectives
(1) Students demonstrate mastery of basic vocabulary and concepts of Criminal Justice as they apply to the issues of domestic violence as presented in the text. Measure: They keep readable lecture notes and eventually pass M-KAT format quizzes and exams on the material.

(2) Students demonstrate growth in their ability to locate and assess controversial theories, statistics, experience, values, opinions and beliefs in regard to family violence and the criminal justice system. Measure: They submit reference and works cited documentation and other written issue evaluations in a timely manner, participate in an informal research team to research a specific case, and participate in the presentation of the case and in formal panel discussions focused on domestic violence and the problems of victimization.

(3) Students demonstrate a reliable capacity to bring their own rational thought processes, as well as a sensitivity to their feelings and the feelings of others, to bear throughout a semester long focus on the volatile and emotionally driven issues which underlie any sympathetic and rational understanding of family violence. Measure: They maintain courtesy and good sense in the heat of passionate but rational discussion, oral and written, they can support their beliefs with formal documentation, and they never sacrifice the immediate welfare of a human being in front of them in the name of an abstract value, principle, or point they are trying to make.

Course Materials
Textbook(s)
Gosselin, Denise Kindschi. 2000. Heavy Hands, An Introduction to the Crimes of Domestic Violence. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-083525-0 Paperback. Required.

Paul, Richard and Linda Elder. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts & Tools. Dillon Beach, CA: The Foundation for Critical Thinking. Required.
Reference
Wallace, Harvey. 1998. Victimology: Legal, Psychological, and Social Perspectives. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. ISBN 0-205-19153-3.

Parkinson, Frank. 2000. Post-trauma stress: Reduce long-term effects and hidden emotional damage caused by violence and disaster. Tucson, AZ: Fisher Books. ISBN 1-55561-249-0.
Other
WWW (World Wide Web) based access to networked computing.
Operational email address.
Basic word processing capacity and resources for printouts.
Two small (1" thick, not 2" or 3") three-ring notebooks, with tab organizers for each and punched, ruled, notebook paper.

Course Resource Links
Schedule
UNCP support services for students with disabilities

Grading Policy
Daily Quiz grades are recorded, but are for practice only and are not included in final grade calculation.

Grades are calculated on a 100 point scale, (see "Final Grades" below for the "A,B,C values"), where 100 means "100 percent correct." You calculate percentage correct by taking the number of questions you have right on any test and dividing it by the total number of questions on the test, to get a decimal fraction, such as .876777. You multiply the decimal fraction by 100 to convert it to a "percentage [correct] score," in this case, 87 or, rounded "up," 88. The scores convert to letter grades according to the scale below. The formula to calculate percentage is: (n/N)*100, where N = total population and n = sub-group of interest, in your case, the sub-group of interest is the number of questions you answered correctly on a test.

Letter graded ("A,B,C grade") work receives these numerical equivalents when final grades are calculated: A+ = 100; A = 95; A- = 90; B+ = 89; B = 85; B- = 80; C+ = 79; C = 75; C- = 70. No grades lower than C are given for letter graded work. Less than C grade work will have to be revised and resubmitted.

Ch 1& 2 evaluation will be letter graded, with two parts: the oral and the written.

Theory and Case presentations will each receive a letter grade.

Mid-Term and Final Exams will be graded on percentage correct basis, see formula above.

Grade Weights. Your final grade will be based on five grades as shown below. Each grade will count equally: 20%.

There are no penalties for late work as long as all work is completed by the day of the final exam. Incomplete work on the day of the final exam will be graded F unless you make arrangements with the instructor for an grade of Incomplete. Incomplete grades interfere with financial aide and are automatically converted to Fs at the end of the following semester.

Bad Weather & Any Other Disasters or Potential Physical Dangers. Do not risk yourself or your automobile to come to class at any time if in your judgment you would be in any way at risk. Please use your own judgment regardless of whether the University is officially "open" or "closed."

Grade Components
 Name 
 Weight 
  Subject
Mid-Term Exam (Friday, Oct 4)
20%
 Text Chapters 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 and lecture material.
Your evaluation of Ch 1 & 2.  (Due Friday, Oct 18)
20%
 An in-class oral and written exercise.
Theory Presentation (Oct 21-33)
20%
 See Chapter 3.
Case Presentation (Nov 11-27)
20%
 Note: Case reference pages due Wed Oct 23.
Final Exam (Due 10:30am Friday Dec 13)
20%
 Take home. Open reference, open book.

Final Grades
 A: 92-100  B+: 87-89  C+: 77-79  D+: 67-69  F: 0-59  
 A-: 90-91  B: 82-86  C: 72-76  D: 62-66      
     B-: 80-81  C-: 70-71  D-: 60-61      

Attendance Policy
Class attendance and participation is expected.

Your attention is drawn to the schedule where guest speakers, formal panel presentations of pertinent material, and supervised research hours are scheduled in connection with your class.

All absences are excused, but you will need to make arrangements, often with the assistance of your informal research teammates, to complete your classnotes and make up any work missed.

Overall time expectation: Forty-five days of a "fifty-minute" hour class, two evening panel discussion meetings, a final exam, and, at least the very minimum of one hour of preparation/study time outside of class for every scheduled class hour.

Student Conduct & Honor Code
Review:
UNCP Academic Honor Code

For additional challenging conditions...
Any students with documented disabilities who need academic adjustment are requested to speak directly to Disability Support Services and the instructor, as early in the semester (preferably within the first week) as possible. All discussions with Disability Support Services will remain confidential. Please contact Mary Helen Walker, Disability Support Services, DF Lowry Building, 910-521-6695.

Updated August 15, 2002 | fran.fuller@uncp.edu | Copyright © 2002 The University of North Carolina at Pembroke