CRCJ 3110
Policing and Public Health
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to myriad ways in which the practices of Canadian public health authorities are intertwined with police and the criminal legal system. Students can expect interactive class activities and guest lecturers.
Undated
Readings
- French, M, and G. Smith. 2013. “‘Health’ Surveillance: New Modes of Monitoring Bodies, Populations, and Polities.” Critical Public Health 23(4): 383–92.
- Mawani, R. (2006). Regulating the “respectable” classes: Venereal disease, gender, and public health initiatives in Canada, 1914-35. In A. Glasbeek (Ed.), Moral regulation and
- Toronto, ON, Canada: Canadian Scholars' Press. (pp. 145- 168).
- Mariana Valverde. 2008. The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925, Chapter 3: Moral and Social Reform, pp. 44-76. University of Toronto Press.
- Miller, J. (2005). African immigrant damnation syndrome: The case of Charles Ssenyonga. Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 2(2), 31-50. doi: 10.1525/srsp.2005.2.2.31
- Susan C. Boyd, 2015. From witches to crack moms: women, drug law and policy. Chapter 4: a sociological perspective of drug use, addiction, and treatment. Pp. 151-210 (focus on drug
- Abby Deshman, Alexander McClelland, Alex Luscombe.
- (2020). Stay off the grass: COVID-19 and law enforcement in Canada. Canadian Civil Liberties Association and The Policing the Pandemic Mapping Project.
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): CRCJ 1000 , third-year standing, and enrollment in a B.A. or Minor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, or by permission of the Institute. Lecture and discussion three hours per week.