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ADCJ 2001

Crime and Punishment · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

95BC evaluations5 records · weight ×1.0 · Summer 2024 – Spring 2026

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

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That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

63rdMore challenging than 63% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

93BC — “Intellectually Challenging”5 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

81stMore work than 81% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

65BC — “Workload”5 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

This course examines crime and punishment as two distinct, yet related, forms of social action. The first half focuses on the social roots of criminality. The second half concerns the social relations of punishment. While we will treat these as relatively autonomous topics, we will also spend time addressing the mismatches between the forces that promote criminality and the organized reactions to crime. We will also study a number of general structures and processes that simultaneously affect crime and punishment. For example, we will study how capitalism and racism shape crime. We will then study how these same systems shape and are shaped by punishment. Special attention will also be paid to the contradictions of criminal justice and social justice in the contemporary United States.

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Joshua SeimSociology	955 records	81st	63rd

There is no ranking to read here: Joshua Seim is the only instructor with evaluation records for ADCJ 2001, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Joshua Seim

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SOCY 1001Introductory Sociology	2657 records	82
SOCY 2215Social Theory	313 records	76
SOCY 1078Sociology of Health and Illness	25 records	91
SOCY 4931Important Readings in Sociology	25 records	91
SOCY 7716Contemporary Social Theory	24 records	89
ADSO 2501Sociological Theories	13 records	98

Other ADCJ classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ADCJ 3051American Institutions	15 records	88
ADCJ 1101Principles of Criminal Justice	24 records	87
ADCJ 3010Criminal Law and Procedure	34 records	83
ADCJ 1100Introduction to Social Justice	13 records	84
ADCJ 2000Criminology	12 records	93
ADCJ 2110Perspectives and Concepts of the Juvenile Justice System	12 records	77

The line

All 13 items · means across 5 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

9564th pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

9563rd pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

9778th pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

9663rd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9992nd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9992nd pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

9463rd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9580th pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

9784th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9784th pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.

6581st pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9363rd pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

8213th pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

5 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Joshua Seim	Spring 2026	01	97	97	60
Joshua Seim	Fall 2025	01	91	98	60
Joshua Seim	Summer 2025	01	93	93	80
Joshua Seim	Fall 2024	01	94	90	60
Joshua Seim	Summer 2024	01	100	96	—

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.