SOCIOL 337
Doing Time: Incarceration and Punishment
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for SOCIOL 337.
Description
Examines punishment and incarceration as a complex social institution informed by a range of social relations and cultural meanings. Explores the way politics shape notions of law and order and also looks at technologies of incarceration. Topics include: history of punishment, theories of incarceration, sentence determination, inmate and staff perspectives on incarceration, youth, refugees, enemy combatant detention centres, penalty regimes.
Availability 2017
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Associate Professor Tracey McIntosh
Reading/Texts
A course reader will be made available if required.
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
SOCIOL 337: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II in Sociology, or CRIM 201 or 202
