Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

JUS 4344 - Prison and Punishment in U.S. Society

Credits: 3 hrs
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 citizenship. We wil study histories of incarceration on communties, 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-requisite(s): POS 2311  and JUS 2301 - Introduction to Justice Studies  
Student Learning Outcome: Critical Reading
Banner Schedule: Fall