LACS 340Women & U.S. Criminal Jus Sys

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This course is designed to familiarize students with issues pertaining to women who come in contact with the US criminal justice system. It focuses on the inter-relationship between gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexual orientation/preference and on how these influence the causes for which women are arrested and incarcerated, the punishment they receive, the treatment they face once institutionalized and their responses to imprisonment. Required films/documentaries will complement required readings. Some required films/videos will not be available outside class times. You are, therefore, expected to be in class when they are scheduled to be shown.