Policing and Mass Incarceration

4 Credits; 4 Hours. (Also: INT 235/SOC 235/ANT 235). 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. PREREQUISITE: ENG 151 and (SOC/ANT 203 or SOC 212 or SOC 200).

Fall, Spring

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