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Apr 16, 2024
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2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CJ 216 Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty
Our criminal justice system is one of the most important institutions in our democracy. Each day criminal courts across the United States address questions of individual and collective responsibility in the context of a society based on class, race and gender inequities. Students will carefully examine how the power of the state, manifested through institutional racism, is utilized as a method of social control. Students will focus on the root causes of mass incarceration of the poor, especially young African-American and Latino men and women. The second half of the course will focus on the impact of race and class on the imposition of the death penalty.
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