The Politics of Crime and Punishment

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This course examines the relationship between crime, punishment and the state through a comparative lens. In doing so, it explores some of the diverse ways in which political leaders and their opponents have used crime and punishment to shape, extend, or resist state institutions over time. The class is comparative in nature which means material is primarily drawn from outside of the United States, though both the U.S. will be compared with the politics of other countries.