Spring 2021  |  SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Race, Crime & Punishment (65553)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Wed 11:45AM - 02:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.
Class Notes:
4 seats reserved for Sociology graduate students. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times. Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?phelps+SOC8190+Spring2021
Class Description:
With the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and increasingly loud critiques of mass incarceration and the police, the U.S. criminal system is at a pivotal turning-point. Are we at the "beginning of the end" of mass policing and punishment? This special topics seminar examines social scientific understandings of the relationships between race, crime, and punishment in the U.S. during the 21st century, focusing on recent, path-breaking books (largely written by junior scholars of color).

The course draws from the sociology of punishment, which sees the criminal justice system as a social institution rather than simply a mechanical response to crime. We focus on a wide array of social control forms (including police, courts, bail, prisons and community supervision, drug treatment, schools, and immigration detention). The core concerns are key questions at the heart of the punishment and society scholarship: What determines the scope and character of criminal punishment? What is the role of crime, the social construction of law, and policing practices? How do policing, imprisonment, and other forms of penal control impact communities? What are the radical potentials of abolitionist movements? For all of these questions, we will pay particular attention to the intersection of punishment and social inequalities, particularly the ways in which punishment reproduces inequities across race, class, gender, and national origin.
Grading:
Students' grade will be based on weekly participation in class discussions and a final research paper.
Exam Format:
Weekly memos and final research paper
Class Format:
Synchronous online discussion
Workload:
~1 book per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65553/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 December 2020

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