SOCIOL 337

Doing Time: Incarceration and Punishment


Please note: this is archived course information from 2018 for SOCIOL 337.

Description

Examines punishment and incarceration as a complex social institution informed by a range of social relations and cultural meanings. Explores the way politics shape notions of law and order and also looks at technologies of incarceration. Topics include: history of punishment, theories of incarceration, sentence determination, inmate and staff perspectives on incarceration, youth, refugees, enemy combatant detention centres, penalty regimes.

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Availability 2018

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s)  Grace Gordon

Reading/Texts

A course reader will be made available if required.

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

SOCIOL 337: 15 points

Prerequisites

SOCSCIPH 200 or 30 points above Stage I in BA courses.