SOC 525

Seminar in Criminal Justice

3 units

Fall 2024

Topics

Understand the debates and challenges surrounding homelessness and/or drug use
Critically examine the intersecting crises of mass homelessness and toxic drug poisoning
Problematize simplistic ‘solutions’ to these issues
Become a critical consumer of scholarly, media, and political discourse about homelessness and drugs
Enhance writing skills on controversial and complex topics
Develop the skills necessary to provide constructive and collegial feedback on others’ ideas, writing, and arguments

Fall 2023 · Individual Study

Katz, Jack. 1997. “Ethnography’s Warrants.” Sociological Methods and Research 25(4): 391- 423

Auyero, Javier and Débora Alejandra Swistun. 2009. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown, Oxford University Press
required
Bucerius, Sandra. 2014. Unwanted: Muslim Immigrants, Dignity, and Drug Dealing. New York: Oxford University Press
required
Contreras, Randol. 2013. The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
required
Duneier, Mitchell. 1999. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
required
Hoang. Kimberly. 2015. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
required
Stuart, Forrest 2020. Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy Chicago: Chicago University Press
required

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