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 as the effects […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3663 This course critically examines the global private security industry, including its historical origins, influence on the development of public policing agencies, and contemporary manifestations. These manifestations include private prisons, private military firms, front-line security companies, and private intelligence agencies. To explore Global North/Global South dynamics of private-security provision, the course examines private […]
The course examines the policies, practices, and techniques by which the criminalization of poverty occurs. Using a critical interdisciplinary lens, students will examine how historical and contemporary narratives have constructed poor people as “criminal” thereby justifying their surveillance, regulation, and punishment. In so doing, students will develop an understanding of the intersecting power relations shaping […]
This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore and understand the relationship between transitional justice (TJ) and development in countries emerging from armed conflict and authoritarian rule in the Global South. The course focuses on the relevance of TJ principles and interventions for addressing mass atrocity crimes and underdevelopment at the conceptual, structural, and practical […]
Criminology remains a Global North-centric academic discipline. The purpose of this course is to highlight Global South as key geographies of criminological knowledge production. This course examines issues of crime, crime control and related matters of violence, surveillance, authoritarianism in Global South contexts by advancing a Southern criminological perspective. Prerequisite: SOSC/CRIM 1650, with a grade […]
Building on critiques of the cruelty and inefficacy of the adversarial Western approach to criminal justice prevalent in critical criminological scholarship, this course examines interdisciplinary arguments for abandoning it – namely, through penal abolition, the dismantling of police, prisons, and related institutions that endeavour to address crime and deviance through punishment, stigmatization and segregation. Prerequisite: […]
Visual criminology suggests that crime and its control cannot be understood separately from their representation. This course explores the role of images and imaging technology in crime and punishment, as well as the complex ways in which crime, criminality, and its control are visualized, constructed and framed through various forms of visual technologies, materials, and […]
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 […]