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CRCJ 2400

Justice and the Self

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

This course explores individualizing perspectives on cognitions, emotions and behaviours associated to the pursuit of justice, with a focus on criminalized incidents.

Topics

Course catalogue

2026

Readings

  • Syllabi Herman, J. L. (2005). Justice From the Victim’s Perspective. Violence Against Women, 11(5), 571-602.
  • Herman, J. L. (2023). Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice. Basic Books.
  • brown, a. m. (2020). We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice. AK Press.
  • Chapter 2, “Bringing Abolition Home: Learning and Untangling in Public,” pp. 15-31.
  • Morris, R. (2000). Stories of Transformative Justice. Canadian Scholars Press. “What is Transformative Justice?” pp. 3-22.
  • Wemmers, J. A. (2010). The Meaning of Justice for Victims. In S. G. Shoham, P. Knepper, & M. Kett, International Handbook of Victimology (pp. 27–43). CRC Press.
  • Zehr, H. (2014). Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated. Good Books. Chapter 4, “Is It Either/Or?”.
  • Bergen, H., & Abji, S. (2020). Facilitating the Carceral Pipeline: Social Work’s Role in Funneling Newcomer Children from the Child Protection System to Jail and Deportation. Affilia: Journal of Women
  • Edwards, T., Chowdhury, R., Laylor, A., Parada, H., & King, B. (2023). Pushed, Dropped, or Fleeing from Care: The Narratives and Adultification of Black Youth Who Have Aged out of Ontario’s Child Welfare
  • System. Child & Youth Services, 0(0), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2023.2173565 Perrin, B. (2023). Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial. University of Toronto Press. Chapter

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): CRCJ 1000 and 2nd year standing in CCJ B.A. programs. Lectures three hours per week.

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