PSCI437 - Race & Criminal Justice

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Race & Criminal Justice
Term
2021C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
401
Section ID
PSCI437401
Course number integer
437
Registration notes
Permission Needed From Instructor
Meeting times
T 01:45 PM-04:45 PM
Meeting location
VANP 402
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Marie Gottschalk
Description
Why are African Americans and some other minority groups disproportionately incarcerated and subjected to penal sanctions? What are the political, social and economic consequences for individuals, communities, and the wider society of mass incarceration in the United States? What types of reforms of the criminal justice system are desirable and possible? This advanced seminar analyzes the connection between race, crime, punishment, and politics in the United States. The primary focus is on the role of race in explaining why the country's prison population increased six-fold since the early 1970s and why the United States today has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The class will likely take field trips to a maximum-security jail in Philadelphia and to a state prison in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Course number only
437
Cross listings
AFRC638401, AFRC437401, PSCI638401
Use local description
No