Prerequisites: either graduate standing and SOC 249 or consent of instructor
Description: This course examines in depth the penal social control agencies of the police, the courts, and the correctional system both from ide- ological and operational points of view. The effects on the individual and society of these mechanisms as well as alternative approaches to formal control mech- anisms are examined.
Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and advi- sor.