Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Examines the racial- ized and gendered information of U.S. jurisprudence, policing, and punishment practices. Explores the con- nections between prison expansion, corporate invest- ment in prison and policing technology, exploitation of prison labor, and deployment of prison-building initia- tives as pork barrels for elected officials. Also analyzes anti-prison, prison reform, and penal abolitionist dis- courses. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.