Teaching Critical Criminology: Helping Students Critique and Challenge Data

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable will focus on creative ways instructors can help students critically examine the “data” that often passes for fact or truth in criminal justice. Presenters will share their experiences with exercises and approaches that help students develop critical analysis skills and methods for interrogating common criminal justice “facts.”

Sub Unit

• Area VIII: Roundtables

Individual Presentations

• Complicating the Assumed Relationship Between Race and Crime - Elyshia Aseltine, Towson University

• Mapping the Criminological Imagination in the Classroom - Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, CUNY Graduate Center

• Teaching Truth and Teaching Lies - Michael J. Coyle, California State University, Chico

Chair

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