Prerequisites: one of the following courses; ETST 001, ETST 001H, ETST 002, ETST 002H, ETST 003, ETST 004/HIST 004, ETST 005, ETST 005H, ETST 007, ETST 007H, ETST 008, ETST 012/RLST 012, ETST 012H/RLST 012H, ETST 014, or consent of instructor
Description: Examines the racialized and gendered information of U.S. jurisprudence, policing, and punishment practices. Explores the connections between prison expansion, corporate investment in prison and policing technology, exploitation of prison labor, and deployment of prison- building initiatives as pork barrels for elected officials. Also analyzes anti-prison, prison reform, and penal abolitionist discourses.