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 […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3657 This course examines the problem of “youth crime” as it has been defined over time and across different national jurisdictions. It focuses on a series of key topics including: (1) the social construction of “youth crime” in both historical and contemporary contexts; (2) the historical emergence of the “juvenile delinquent” and “young […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3656 This course examines theory and research on punishment. Notwithstanding the emergence of alternative visions of justice in western industrialized nations, when we think of punishment we tend to think of prisons. The nexus between prisons and punishment is remarkably resilient. The course will examine the prison-punishment nexus through critical engagement with a […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3655 This course explores questions and debates about the relationships between policing, regulation and contested meanings of order. Centrally, the course explores the relationships between state-based policing, policing-at-a-distance, emerging community practices and private regulatory initiatives to ask what it means to talk about policing in a neoliberal risk society. Topics of discussion may […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3654 This course considers the politics at stake in the crime prevention enterprise. A number of specific crime prevention and security initiatives will be examined with a view to exposing their political foundations. These include: situational crime prevention; crime prevention through environmental design; neighbourhood watch; “broken windows” policing; crime prevention through community development; […]