Policing Marginalized Communities (Hendricks)
Faculty
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| Anjelica Hendricks Assistant Professor of Law ahendri@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Expository Writing
Grading
20% Participation,
40% Paper,
40% Other (20% oral presentation, 20% writing assignment)
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can send you an email with instructions for accessing the recording for the class session(s) you missed.
- If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can make PowerPoint slides or other class materials available to you.
- Please make an appointment to meet with me and I will review/answer questions about what you missed.
Meeting Times/Location
W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Silverman Hall 270
Category
Seminar
Credits
3.0
Course description
Police actions are widely evaluated in the context of criminal law, criminal investigations, and criminal procedure. What is often absent from these examinations, however, is the centering of marginalized communities. Shifting from the traditional landscape of policing lectures, this course will instead examine the origins, policies, and practices of policing as it relates to the police of marginalized communities such as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color), LGBTQ+, migrant, neurodiverse, impoverished, and those with intersecting identities.
In Part I, students will explore the origins of policing from the 1600s to 1950s—largely covering government sanctioned groups to curtail the rights of indigenous and enslaved peoples. In Part II, students will discover how courts, and the government, began to curtail police authority. Part III, students will review protections afforded to the police, police jurisdiction, emerging policing issues. The course syllabus changes by the semester and the Fall 2024 course adds a review of policing and social media, efforts to disband police agencies, and prosecuting police.
Course materials will be one book (Presumed Guilty by Erwin Chemerinsky) and various reading assignments including cases, policy reports, and scholarly articles, uploaded on Canvas.
This seminar will merely scratch the surface of marginalized groups that may be disproportionately swept into the criminal legal system by their contacts with police. The groups discussed during this seminar will not represent the entire array of identities. Unfortunately, we only have a few weeks to examine this area and I apologize for not being able to give due consideration and attention to all identities and groups that have been historically marginalized, ignored, and silenced.
The final course grade will be calculated using the following categories:
Attendance and participation 20% Assignment 1 20% Assignment 2 (Oral Presentation) 20% Final Paper 40%
Criminal Law and Procedure Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of criminal law and procedure; Perform legal analysis in the context of criminal law and procedure; Communicate effectively on topics related to criminal law and procedure; Demonstrate an understanding of the role criminal law and procedure play in society and their impact on other areas of law and society.
Administrative and Regulatory Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of administrative and regulatory law and the administrative process, including the role of statutory authorization and work of administrative agencies; Perform legal analysis in the context of administrative and regulatory law; Communicate effectively on topics related to administrative and regulatory law; Demonstrate an understanding of the role administrative and regulatory law play in our legal system and in society as a whole.
Public Interest Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of the varied legal aspects of public interest law; Perform legal analysis in the context of public interest law; Communicate effectively on topics related to public interest law; Demonstrate an understanding of how public interest law is connected to and affected by a wide variety of legal and regulatory structures and doctrines.
Equity and Inclusion Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of the varied legal aspects of equity and inclusion; Perform legal analysis in the context of topics related to equity and inclusion; Communicate effectively on the legal aspects of equity and inclusion; Demonstrate an understanding of how equity and inclusion are connected to and affected by a wide variety of legal and regulatory structures and doctrines.
Textbooks
"Presumed Guilty" by Erwin Chemerinsky |