SOC 12Crime and Society

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Critically analyzes crime, criminal behavior, and the criminal justice system in a social, political, and historical context. Focuses on the intersections between constructions of crime, structural inequalities, and criminal justice policy. Topics may include criminalization, lawmaking, policing, sentencing, imprisonment, prisoner reentry, social policy, and social movements. CAB GE D, Cal-GETC 4. C-ID: SOCI 160