SOC 4190 is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 4190 is also offered in Fall 2023
SOC 4190 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2024 | SOC 4190 Section 001: Topics in Sociology With Law, Criminology, and Justice Emphasis -- A Planet in Crisis: Crimes Against the Environment (33976)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 6 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 235
- Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 55 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics specified in Class Schedule.prereq: [1001, [3101 or 3102]] recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F; cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
- Class Notes:
- For decades, the criminal justice system has focused overwhelmingly on street crime. Police, bureaucratic agencies, and scholars alike have encouraged the investment of millions of dollars into strategies that attempt to predict and prevent street crime such as theft or drug offenses, often unsuccessfully. Meanwhile, environmental harms - produced by the powerful, which create millions of victims - go overlooked, both in the academy and in the courthouse. This is despite the fact that climate change, mass extinction, and widespread toxic pollution are some of the most pressing and existential challenges facing humanity in the coming century. Here, green criminology attempts to fill in the gaps left by traditional criminology by asking: how, and why, did our planet come to be in crisis? In SOC4190: Crimes Against the Environment, students will discuss a wide range of topics pertaining to environmental crimes, environmental harms, and environmental victimization. This includes several weeks spent reading, discussing, and thinking about "green" crimes such as climate change and climate denialism, state-corporate crime and the BP oil spill, and harm to animals through wildlife crime and animal agriculture, to name a few. By the end of this class, each student should be able to meet the following content-based learning goals: 1) Define green criminology and understand why the study of green crime has been largely neglected; 2) Understand the many facets and dimensions of green harm and crime; 3) Describe the nature and extent of environmental offending and victimization, including the way this victimization is shaped by environmental injustice; 4) Understand the causes and consequences of green crime beyond the individual; and 5) Explain how criminal justice systems and regulatory agencies have historically responded and presently respond to green crime and victimization.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33976/1249
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