Policing and Mass Incarceration
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Overview
Subject area
AAD
Catalog Number
235
Course Title
Policing and Mass Incarceration
Department(s)
Description
4 Credits; 4 Hours. (SOC 235 / ANT 235 / AAD 235 / INT 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.
Cross Listed Courses
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Course Attributes
COPT - CSIPD (CSI Pluralism and Diversity), COPT - CSISSA (CSI Social Scientific Analysis)
Credits
Minimum Units
4
Maximum Units
4
Academic Progress Units
4
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
4
Requisites
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