SOC 235

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SOC 235 - Policing and Mass Incarceration (4 cr)

Sociology and Anthropology HUM - Div of Humanities and Soc Sci

Course Title

Policing and Mass Incarceration

Catalog Description

Provides a critical perspective of historical and current fighting-crime strategies such as one-strike, zero tolerance and the war on drugs, and their intended and unintended consequences for historically marginalized populations. The course will deal with legal/institutional trends in technologies of policing, the militarization of urban America and activist responses to current ‘crisis’ of police violence against minority groups in the US and beyond.

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Course Attributes

COPT - CSIPD (CSI Pluralism and Diversity), COPT - CSISSA (CSI Social Scientific Analysis)

Minimum

4

Max

4

Academic Progress Units

4

Requirement Designation

Regular Liberal Arts

Prerequisites & Corequisites

036019

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