AP/HIST 1086 6.00

Vice, Deviance, Bad Behaviour, and Social Control in North America since 1600

Explores how, in North America since 1600, certain behaviours have been defined by social actors and state agencies as bad behaviour or vices, and how these behaviours have been regulated. Introduces students to the role that issues such as drug and alcohol use, abortion, prostitution, and sexuality (to name a few) have played in the development of moral and social regulation and how they have changed over time.