SOC 201 and 310 : October 17

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

Criminology

Today in class, I would like you to review your assigned reading and I would like each of you to offer a way you would modify the current judicial system in dicussion.

For next class, please review these handouts. We will be discussing the role of censorship in regards to its legal necessity, and the issue of obscenity.


Death and Dying

I hope you did your reading.

In continuing with our Homicide unit, please discuss the following question.
What factors do you believe excuse some one from being responsible for a death when it comes to matters of personal control for one's actions? Psychological illness? Extreme distress? Introduction of an influential outside source?

For next class, please read Anne Sexton's poem Suicide Note.

Comments

Re: Death and Dying

[harried-potter.livejournal.com]

((OOC:What do i think?? I have just spend the entire afternoon thinking up an explanation about how William Langland has left us clues in his poetry that he was a Augustinian, and why...i do not think))

"Well, i think if someone is really, like totally controlled by someone else, like he's used as a puppet, you can hardly blame them if they kill someone in that state, i guess. And the other factors...i don't know?

Re: Death and Dying

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

"I suppose it depends on how that person came under the influence, but I do agree sometimes our behavior can be out of our own control some times. Thank you, Harry."