SOC212
Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States
Sociology
BC
Subject code
SOC
Course Number
212
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
K. Bedecarré
Course Long Title
Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This course provides an analysis of the criminal justice system with a particular focus on the centrality of crime policy to the making of race in the United States. Specifically, the course examines the war on drugs. Students consider how changes to laws and policies transformed the way we punish crime as a country, and their disproportionate impact on Black and Brown communities. Students also explore reformist and abolitionist social movements and their efforts to redress these disparities in the criminal justice system through policy change. Recommended background: PLTC 115.
Writing Credit
No writing credit
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(PLTC: Identities & Interests), (PLTC: Institutional Politics)
GEC This Course Belongs To
-
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years
Offering Frequency
One-time offering