Spring 2019  |  SOC 4108 Section 001: Current Issues in Crime Control (66628)

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
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 255
Enrollment Status:
Open (50 of 80 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected current criminal justice policies from perspective of courts, legislature, community, and interest groups. Impact of criminal justice policy changes on society and on social control agencies. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F
Class Notes:
Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?phelps+SOC4108+Spring2019
Class Description:
Race, Crime, Policing, and Punishment: Exploring Black America's Agency & Resistance

With the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and increasingly loud critiques of mass incarceration from both liberals and conservatives, the U.S. criminal system is once again "on trial" in popular opinion and the mass media. Is our current system of policing and punishment "racist"
and the product of whites' racial resentment in the post civil rights era? This special topics seminar examines social scientific understandings of the relationships between race, crime, policing, and punishment in the U.S. during the 21st century.

The seminar centers on three recent, path-breaking books on the intersection of race, crime, policing, and punishment and written by scholars of color. (These books are Locking Up Our Own, Big House on the Prairie, and The Chosen Ones.) All question the "standard story" of mass incarceration and race, focusing in particular on black agency, resistance, and redemption.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Students looking to dive deeper into the history of contemporary policing and punishment. Most students should have already taken Soc 3101 and/or Soc 4105 or Soc 4125.
Grading:
3 Short Essay Exams + 1 Final Paper
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
40 Pages Reading Per Week
3 Exams
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66628/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
24 October 2018

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