Spring 2019  |  SOC 4104 Section 001: Crime and Human Rights (66434)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 130
Enrollment Status:
Open (32 of 58 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course addresses serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law, efforts to criminalize those violations (laws and institutions), and consequences of these efforts. Special attention will be paid to the impact interventions have on representations and memories of atrocities on responses and the future of cycles of violence. Case studies on Holocaust, Balkan wars, Darfur, My Lai massacre, etc. Criminal justice, truth commissions, vetting, compensation programs. prereq: SOC 1001, at least one 3xxx SOC or GLOS course recommended, Sociology and Global Studies majors/minors must register A-F
Class Notes:
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Class Description:

Why are some human rights violations, but not others, criminalized in international law? How have countries responded to human rights violations? Why do people participate in mass atrocities and how have they been punished? How has human rights discourse influenced international and national criminal justice?


This course applies a sociological perspective to human rights discourse, efforts to criminalize human rights violations, and consequences of these efforts. To begin, we will analyze the construction of international human rights ideals, laws, and institutions since the mid 20th century and consider how human rights discourse is employed to frame particular acts as deviant and criminal law as an appropriate response. Second, we will analyze institutional responses to violations of international criminal law (i.e., transitional justice mechanisms), including prosecutions, truth commissions, and amnesties. To examine why and how state and non-state actors have opted to pursue transitional justice mechanisms, we will dig in to a variety of case histories, including the Holocaust, the Balkan wars, Rwanda, Darfur, South Africa, and Argentina. Here, we will also discuss the consequences of interventions for remembering past violence and preventing future violence.
Grading:
2 exams (15% each), 2 short papers (15% each), reading responses & class participation (40%)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66434/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 May 2016

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