Prerequisites: ETST 001 or ETST 001H or ETST 002 or ETST 002H or ETST 003 or ETST 005 or ETST 005H or ETST 007 or ETST 007H or ETST 004 or HIST 004 or ETST 008 or ETST 012 or ETST 012H or RLST 012 or RLST 012H or ETST 014 or ETST 011 or ETST 098; 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.