Contemplation on Criminology (preface)

I'm going to start a series of posts about teaching criminology in the coming days. Criminology (at least right now) is the class I least like to teach. While my student evaluations generally have been favorable; I don't have any sense that they are learning much in my class.

tonight's class was an unqualified disaster; and I knew it would be going in. While bad classes are usually attributable to me, I think in this case the problem is equally attributable to the content.

In anycase, I plan to use this blog space to re-think the course and organize it in a way that leaves me satisfied that the content is acceptable, even if the delivery leaves something to be desired.