Avoid! Tests are so difficult and so specific it makes you think he expects you to remember the endless readings he assigns. For lecture, he just stand in front of the class and goes on and on. Don't even expect to receive a good grade for the paper he assigns. Take 172 with someone else. If there is one time to truly believe a rating, this is it.

AVOID AVOID AVOID. Took his class because I wanted to be a criminologist.. not anymore. His tests were impossible to pass, the questions were all fill in the blank plus a final paper. I studied, read, and went to every lecture and still ended up having to take it PNP to save my GPA. Abra needs to go back to teaching on the semester system

Hes awesome, grading is easy, but you need to work

Great professor!! I learned so much from his class! You will get A if you study hard.

Took him his first quarter at UCSB. Hopefully he won't be here for long. He doesn't even make his own tests probably because he doesn't even know what he's talking about. Lectures aren't too dry and sometimes interesting but this class in general was still a pain. Hopefully, another professor teaches this topic when I retake it.

First of all, I am not writing this to bash on Abra because I received a lower-than-expected grade in the class. That's just unprofessional. The truth is that his testing & grading methods are flawed, he has an arrogant attitude about him, and he makes the class unnecessarily hard. The class had great potential but not anymore. AVOID!!!

He is a good person, however that does not mean he is a competent teacher. Tests are disproportionately harder than any I have taken at UCSB. Avoid at all costs, take for elective as PNP if you are interested in subject, but it will still be difficult. Overall a pointless GPA killer in which you teach yourself the material. Worst class ever!!!!!!!

AVOID!!!! Course breakdown: 2-2page papers, 54 question, short answer midterm (took the whole class)(half lecture, half book), 8-10page final paper, 50 short answer final that is cumulative &&& essay question on the final exam. Extremely difficult examsgrading and too much work. He's unclear about everything. Lecture is painfully boring. AVOID!!

Abra does not belong at UCSB. His lectures are too slow and drawn out. Almost as though he thinks his students are not intelligent enough to grasp the concepts. His grading seems arbitrary. I usually get A's on all of my papers but have received poor marks and I don't understand why. He also gave me absolutely no feedback.

Hands down the best teacher I have ever had at UCSB. He makes every class like sitting in a comedy hour where he tells a story for an hour and then relates it to the bigger picture. I have learned way more in this class then any other class because he requires you to actually understand and apply the concepts rather than rote memorization