The purpose of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to develop their knowledge of criminological issues and approaches in a practical context. The course begins with in-class workplace-related skills training followed by placement in a community- or non-governmental organization working with people in conflict with the law, victims of crime, or in […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4666 This course explores the historical, social, and political processes through which some sexual activities become defined as sufficiently dangerous as to warrant a criminal justice response. At the same time, the course is attentive to popular forms of sexual censure, regulation and/or resistance, thus linking public debates and anxieties to the criminalization […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 3663 This course examines the relationship between gender, crime, and the criminal justice system. Drawing on feminist interdisciplinary scholarship, the course engages with the intersections between gender, race, class and sexuality to critically assess the ways these affect agents of criminal justice and the broader patterns of offending, victimization, and imprisonment. Particular emphasis […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 3660 Crime and Development is an interdisciplinary course that examines the interlinkages between criminality and development in the Global South. It begins with an overview of a variety of theoretical perspectives on the crime-development nexus followed by an application of these theories to understand the impact of social change on crime as well […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4664 The course explores the politics of contemporary Canadian policing in the context of the history of modern governance. It explores the police role in society and interrogates policing in terms of fairness, inequality, discrimination and social justice. It further explores the relationship between policing, media, law, politics and social order, emphasizing the […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4665 This course examines the global approaches to the detection, investigation, and enforcement of a broad variety of internet crimes and technology-related crimes with a particular focus on the efforts of non-state actors. It considers technology both as a target and tool of regulation. Among the topics considered are the transnational regulation of […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4663 The course introduces students to victimology, the diverse theoretical approaches in the field, and the politics of the victim label, from a critical perspective. Topics include victim precipitation theories and victim-blaming; contemporary, critical and radical perspectives in victimology; victims’ rights movements; and existing programs and rights instruments for victims in Canada. Victimology […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4662 This seminar course takes an intersectional, critical, and practical approach to Canadian criminal justice policy through theoretical engagement, discursive and practical policy analysis in a highly participatory seminar format. Topics considered include the relationship between criminal and regulatory tools, their enforcement, and social norms; the effects of criminal justice policy on diverse […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4661 This course examines theory, practice and research on surveillance from a criminological perspective. It places particular emphasis on the role of surveillance in crime control and law enforcement as well as on the history of surveillance and current forms of surveillance. The human rights implications of surveillance are also examined in relation […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4660 What does the criminalization of dissent tell us about the social, political and economic relations of the Canadian state in the context of neoliberalism and interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and racism? This seminar interrogates the politics of criminalization processes through a focus on the relationship between the state and political […]