Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4659 For many years, indigenous peoples have been over-criminalized and over-incarcerated in the Canadian criminal justice system. Indigenous peoples constitute approximately 20-25% of the male federal inmate population, and 30% of the federal female inmate population and the numbers are even higher in many provincial institutions. In addition, fully half of all the […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4658 From forced sterilization and settler violence to drug laws and mass internment to refugee policies, border policing, detention and deportation, the domains of border governance and criminal justice in Canada intersect in a variety of important, historically specific ways. These intersections can be found at the levels of discourse (‘the criminal foreigner’), […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4657 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The sub-prime mortgage crisis. Silicone breast implants. Deteriorating food quality. These are all examples of harmful practices associated with the activities of modern corporations. However, rather than crimes, these harms are usually treated as regulatory, administrative, or ethical breaches, or simply as the costs of doing business, […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4655 This course examines the microsocial and macrosocial forms of violence. The course explores how violence operates as a form of social control rather than as a psychological impulse or biological drive. Myths and misconceptions about violence are measured against criminological, cultural and sociological theories of violence. The course examines numerous manifestations of […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4654 Contemporary culture’s preoccupation with the detection and punishment of crime and criminals extends beyond the criminal justice system and into popular culture. Academic criminological work has informed us of the realities of crime and criminal justice, but this research has not penetrated into the popular imagination to the same extent as certain […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4653 Crime is increasingly understood as a global phenomenon and has come to assume a number of different forms across a range of national as well as transnational contexts. These transformations have posed a series of distinct challenges to criminology with respect to the very nature of ‘globalization’ and what it means to […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4652 This seminar course provides an advanced discussion of a particular issue in the field of crime and criminal justice. The focus of the course will vary from year to year depending upon student and faculty interest.
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4650 This course engages in an in-depth analysis of a particular topic or theme relevant to criminology. The focus of the course will vary from year to year depending upon student and faculty interest.
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3659 The purpose of this course is to establish the analytical connections between the knowledge fields of criminology and human rights. Among the topics considered are human rights perspectives within criminology, human rights implications of policing, crime prevention, and state and corporate crimes, International Criminal Court, and international crimes such as genocide, war […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3658 This course examines how science and technology have altered the terrain of criminology and criminal justice. It focuses not only on the ways in which criminology has been constructed as a science, but also the ways in which technology has created new crimes, new forms of identity (e.g. data doubles), and new […]