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Fall 2021
May 16, 2024 |
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| JUS 4344 - Prisons and Punishment in U.S. Society |
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This course surveys the central role jails, prisons, and detention centers play in contemporary U.S. society. Students will be challenged to analyze the prison as a modality of power that shapes, and is shaped by, hierarchies of difference organized around race, class, gender, sexuality, and citienship. We will study histories of incarceration, examine philosophies of punishmnet and social control, and investigate the impact of widespread incarceration on communities, families, the political economy, and our democratic institutions. Students will also explore domestic and global alternatives to incarceration through an analysis of popular social movements struggling for penal abolition, restorative and transformative justice, and decarceration. Pre-requisites: JUS 2301 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Second Undergrad Degree, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture History, Politics & Social Jus Department Course Attributes: LO: Critical Reading |
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