Fall 2014  |  SOC 4125 Section 001: Policing America (34384)

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
Meets With:
AFRO 4910 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 330
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Forms, dynamics, philosophical underpinnings of policing/surveillance agencies (formal/informal). Legal limitations, police culture, community relations, aims of policing, state power.
Class Description:
This course is an in-depth sociological analysis of the origins, composition, and effects of policing in contemporary U.S. society. Throughout the course, we focus on using a social science lens to understand what policing is and how it influences social life. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which racial inequalities are reflected in and reshaped by policing practices. The course material is divided into three units. In the first, we cover the early history of formal policing in the U.S. and contemporary developments, including broken windows policing and the war on drugs. We will read two ethnographies of policing in an urban locale and a rural town to better understand the lived experiences of the police and the policed. We then turn to the police as an organization, looking at the ways in which race, gender, and other social characteristics shape police work. In the third unit, we turn to how the logic of policing filters through and beyond the state in schools, welfare offices, the war on terror, and mass technological surveillance. Throughout the course, students will also use ethnographic tools to study policing themselves in local Minneapolis neighborhoods.
Grading:
30% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
20% Quizzes
10% Class Participation
Class Format:
60% Lecture
10% Film/Video
20% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
Workload:
50-150 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34384/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
23 May 2014

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