Falling in Love with a Book

“If you wanted students to ignore the work of major figures in criminal justice, how would you go about it? One thing you might do is to assign a textbook that contains dry summaries of "key ideas" drawn from their writings. You then could amplify these summaries in lecture, contrasting the major figures to each other, and emphasizing differences in their positions. This approach can wark wonders because students recognize caricatures of ideas and issues when they see them. In case they miss the point, however, you can clinch it with examination questions such as "Compare Hackfleisch's views about delinquency causation with those of Cumquat.

Journal Of Criminal Justice Education, Vol 1 No. 2, Fall 1990. 6p