CRIM 307

Doing Time: Incarceration and Punishment

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: 15.0 points

Prerequisites

15 points from CRIM 201, 202 or 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights

Restrictions

SOCIOL 337