Racial Injustice in the US Criminal System

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This course explores racial injustice in the U.S. criminal justice system - police, courts, and corrections. This course examines how “American” systems of inequality intersect with structures and patterns of crime and crime control. In particular, by investigating a long-range historical approach to correctional ideas and institutions, this course delves into how criminal justice systems and practices produce, maintain, and reproduce systems of durable inequality. This course provides students with a critical understanding of the criminal justice system in the United States. Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought Ways of Knowing Requirement Satisfies a requirement in the Sociology major Satisfies Justice, Equality and Community requirement.