Spring 2024 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Sociology of Punishment (65336)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Wed 11:45AM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1114
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (10 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:
- 5 seats reserved for Sociology grad students. Click these links for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?page+SOC8190+Spring2024
- Class Description:
- This seminar is an intensive exploration of the Sociology of Punishment, which David Garland (1990: 10) defines as "that body of thought which explores the relations between punishment and society, its purpose being to understand legal punishment as a social phenomenon and thus trace its role in social life." The course focuses on the following questions, which are at the heart of the Sociology of Punishment: What are the purposes of criminal punishment? What determines the scope and character of criminal punishment? What is the relationship between criminal punishment and culture? What is the relationship between contemporary criminal punishment and social inequality and divisions? Why has imprisonment become the predominant mode of punishment in the United States and other industrial democracies? How do imprisonment and other forms of institutionalization affect prisoners and ex-prisoners? We will have fun.
- Grading:
- Class discussions, reading memos, final paper.
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
70% Discussion
10% Student Presentations - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65336/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 November 2023
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 Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Wed 11:45AM - 02:15PMOff CampusUMN 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
Spring 2019 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Sociology of Punishment (66100)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Fri 11:45AM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1114
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (7 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:
- Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?page+SOC8190+Spring2019
- Class Description:
- This seminar is an intensive exploration of the Sociology of Punishment, which David Garland (1990: 10) defines as "that body of thought which explores the relations between punishment and society, its purpose being to understand legal punishment as a social phenomenon and thus trace its role in social life." The course focuses on the following questions, which are at the heart of the Sociology of Punishment: What are the purposes of criminal punishment? What determines the scope and character of criminal punishment? What is the relationship between criminal punishment and culture? What is the relationship between contemporary criminal punishment and social inequality and divisions? Why has imprisonment become the predominant mode of punishment in the United States and other industrial democracies? How do imprisonment and other forms of institutionalization affect prisoners and ex-prisoners? We will have fun.
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
70% Discussion
10% Student Presentations - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66100/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 October 2018
Fall 2017 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Genocide & Mass Violence: Causes & Consequences (34684)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1183
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?abaer+SOC8190+Fall2017
- Class Description:
Despite the existence of a legal definition brought forward by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the concept of genocide is at times expanded by scholars, victim groups and activists to encompass different categories and methods of extreme violence, including state terror against political enemies, war crimes and other massive human right violations committed by state and non-state actors. In this course, we will address definitional and theoretical problems that have emerged in the study of large scale political violence and its repercussions over the last decades. We will a) trace the history of the concept of genocide, the UN Convention and its connection to the Holocaust and the post-World War II order b) examine the work of classic and recent authors who discuss Cases examined in the course include the Holocaust, colonial genocide in North America, the Armenian genocide, State terror in Spain and in the Southern Cone and Stalinist crimes in Eastern Europe.
0ADespite the existence of a legal definition brought forward by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the concept of genocide is at times expanded by scholars, victim groups and activists to encompass different categories and methods of extreme violence, including state terror against political enemies, war crimes and other massive human right violations committed by state and non-state actors. In this course, we will address definitional and theoretical problems that have emerged in the study of large scale political violence and its repercussions over the last decades. We will a) trace the history of the concept of genocide, the UN Convention and its connection to the Holocaust and the post-World War II order b) examine the work of classic and recent authors who discuss the Cases analyzed in the course include the Holocaust, colonial genocides in North America, the Armenian genocide, State terror in Spain and in the Southern Cone and Stalinist crimes in Eastern Europe.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34684/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 April 2017
Spring 2017 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Race, Crime & Punishment (67182)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Fri 11:45AM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1114
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?phelps+SOC8190+Spring2017
- Class Description:
With the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and increasingly loud critiques of mass incarceration from both liberals and conservatives, the U.S. criminal system seems to be "on trial" in popular opinion and the mass media. Is our current system of punishment "racist" and are we at the "end" of mass incarceration? This special topics seminar examines social scientific understandings of the relationships between race, crime, and punishment in the U.S. during the 21st century. The seminar centers on relatively recent, path-breaking books on the intersection of punishment and race/ethnicity, class, and gender.
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 aree 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 imprisonment and other forms of penal control affect prisoners and ex-prisoners? 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 divides based on race, class, gender, and national origin.
- Grading:
- Students' grade will be based on weekly participation in class discussions and a final research paper.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67182/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 January 2017
Fall 2015 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Juvenile Justice (22069)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- LAW 6226 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/07/2015Mon 03:35PM - 06:20PMUMTC, West BankWalter F. Mondale Hall 65
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems. prereq: Grad student in sociology or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information http://classinfo.umn.edu/?feldx001+SOC8190+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- Legal, sociological, and philosophical bases of the principal agencies responsible for the control of youthful deviance. Emphasis on the juvenile courts' delinquency jurisdiction and the procedural and substantive limitations on the courts' authority to dispose of juvenile offenders.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/22069/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 April 2013
Spring 2015 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Sociology of Punishment (59833)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Thu 04:00PM - 06:30PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1114
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems. prereq: Grad student in sociology or instr consent
- Class Description:
- This seminar is an intensive exploration of the Sociology of Punishment, which David Garland (1990: 10) defines as ?that body of thought which explores the relations between punishment and society, its purpose being to understand legal punishment as a social phenomenon and thus trace its role in social life.? The course focuses on the following questions, which are at the heart of the Sociology of Punishment: What are the purposes of criminal punishment? What determines the scope and character of criminal punishment? What is the relationship between criminal punishment and culture? What is the relationship between contemporary criminal punishment and social inequality and divisions? Why has imprisonment become the predominant mode of punishment in the United States and other industrial democracies? How do imprisonment and other forms of institutionalization affect prisoners and ex-prisoners? We will have fun.
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
70% Discussion
10% Student Presentations - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59833/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2014
Fall 2014 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance (23477)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- College Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Meets With:
- LAW 6226 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/01/2014Mon 03:35PM - 06:20PMUMTC, West BankWalter F. Mondale Hall N202
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23477/1149
Spring 2014 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Gender, Mass Violence & Crime in International Law (66588)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Wed 11:45AM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 1114
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.
- Class Description:
- This seminar course examines crime and criminal justice as a gendered phenomena with a specific emphasis on gender-based violence during conflict. It explores how notions of different types of masculinity and femininity are embedded in and influence criminal behaviors, the operation of the criminal justice system, and the evolution of international criminal law. Course readings draw on historical and contemporary research and various theoretical perspectives, some of which present very different ways to think about how crime is shaped by gender and sex.
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
25% Reflection Papers
25% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 100% Discussion
- Workload:
- 1 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66588/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 November 2013
Fall 2013 | SOC 8190 Section 001: Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance -- Juvenile Justice (30056)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- College Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Meets With:
- LAW 6226 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/04/2013Mon 03:35PM - 06:15PMUMTC, West BankWalter F. Mondale Hall 65
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.
- Class Description:
- Legal, sociological, and philosophical bases of the principal agencies responsible for the control of youthful deviance. Emphasis on the juvenile courts' delinquency jurisdiction and the procedural and substantive limitations on the courts' authority to dispose of juvenile offenders.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/30056/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 April 2013
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