The Carceral State: Police Violence, Adjudication, and Mass Incarceration

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This course, on the carceral state, invites students to understand the three important answers to the question: what justifies punishment? It then invites them to explore this question in three sites: policing, judiciary, and within carceral structures such as jails and detention centers. Claims about systemic racial bias in all three sites will be investigated. A service learning component will take students to one of five community partners, and then be worked up at the end of the course as a final advocacy project. Satisfies Magis Core Intersections and Designated Ethics. P: Philosophical Ideas.