CRIM 307
Doing Time: Incarceration and Punishment
Please note: this is archived course information from 2020 for CRIM 307.
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 2020
Not taught in 2020
Lecturer(s)
TBA
Points
CRIM 307: 15 points
Prerequisites
15 points from CRIM 201, 202 or 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights
Restrictions
SOCIOL 337