{"id":142893,"date":"2018-11-09T08:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=142893"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:03:43","slug":"coveted-class-politics-crime-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/11\/coveted-class-politics-crime-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Coveted Class: Politics of Crime and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Bergendahl\u2019s interest in justice and the law started when she was just 7 years old. Her father\u2019s struggle with alcohol was rocky at times and the Tiverton, Rhode Island, police came to her home more than once. After her parents divorced, Bergendahl, still in her preteens, discovered her voice, arguing frequently with a crusty landlord when she believed he was failing to uphold his side of the bargain in keeping her mother\u2019s subsidized four-room apartment properly maintained.<\/p>\n<p>It is exactly that experience that assistant professor Bergendahl believes makes her a better instructor when it comes to teaching \u201cThe Politics of Crime and Justice\u201d\u00a0(POL 3827).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen the law from the good end and I\u2019ve seen it from the bad end,\u201d says Bergendahl. \u201cI want my students to see me as a person who has had real world experiences and not just someone who comes in professing to know everything or who is looking to present one particular point of view. My students know that I don\u2019t use the class as a soapbox to promote a specific agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2018\/09\/25\/politics-crime-justice-pols-3827\/\">magazine.uconn.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Bergendahl wants students to see how the law works in real life, so she introduced community-based service programs to her curriculum, including the opportunity to tutor inmates at a correctional institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":142902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2225,2234],"tags":[2078],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1928],"class_list":["post-142893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","tag-political-science"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:24:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142944,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142893\/revisions\/142944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/142902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142893"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=142893"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=142893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}