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May 03, 2024
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CRJ 4020 - Criminal Justice: Who is “Criminal”?
Credit(s): 3
The U.S. criminal justice system has seen dramatic changes in the last several decades. Imprisonment has expanded more than fivefold since the 1980s, and immigration imprisonment has quadrupled since 2001. This intensive seminar examines current developments and controversies confronting the U.S. criminal justice system, with a focus on the “war on drugs” and the expansion of imprisonment – mass incarceration. The course explores how this has occurred, its consequences, and its attendant dynamics of race and class through recent non-fiction and class screenings of the HBO series The Wire , hailed as a masterpiece of U.S. television that dramatically portrays Baltimore’s police, the illegal drug trade, and the struggles of urban U.S. neighborhoods.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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