Teaching Critical Criminology: Directly Engaging Students with Critical Themes

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable brings together three professors to share their experiences directly engaging students in critical themes related to terrorism, race and social change. Through a discussion of these unique pedagogical approaches (from classroom exercises to service learning projects), this roundtable endeavors to spark a discussion of the various ways we might better actively engage students in doing critical criminological analysis both inside and outside the classroom.

Sub Unit

• Area VIII: Roundtables

Chair

• Carla J. Barrett, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Individual Presentations

• Critical Terrorism Studies in the Classroom - Carl Root, Eastern Kentucky University

• “Don’t get killed in the ghetto”: Racialized Understandings of Criminality, Community Gardens, and Service-Learning Pedagogy - Sarah Becker, Louisiana State University; Crystal Paul, Louisiana State University

• Do/Say/Write: Empowering Students to Think About Social Change - Meredith Conover-Williams, Humboldt State University