AP/SOSC 3664 3.0 Penal abolitionism: Envisioning alternatives to punitive justice

AP/SOSC 3664 3.00

Penal abolitionism: Envisioning alternatives to punitive justice

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: SOSC/CRIM 1650, with a grade of at least a B