Social Welfare - CrmnlJustceSystm:Abolish/Refrm

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The course will seek to understand historical and contemporary abolition movements. A major focus being on prison industrial complex abolition drawing on the writing of Mariame Kaba, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Angela Davis. Topics will include the history of policing, surveillance, and prisons in the United States, transformational justice, and restorative practices. Students will be invited to interrogate the framing of the criminal justice system, ask questions about future of abolition, and investigate what abolition offers as a political organizing strategy. Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the School of Social Welfare. Successful completion of 510, SW 512, SW 530, SW 534, SW 540, and SW 555.