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CRCJ 4120

Criminalization and Resistance

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

This course will examine societal processes tied to criminalization and how groups, peoples and communities respond through activism and social movements. It critically analyzes the impact of criminalization and explores strategies for resistance and social change.

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Course catalogue

2025

Readings

  • Outline – CRCJ 4120 3 Winter 2026
  • Wakefield, Sara, and Kristin Turney. 2025. “The Rise of the Carceral State: Foundations and Contours of a Rapidly Changing Criminal Legal System.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the
  • Chesters, Graeme, and Ian Welsh. 2010. Introduction: The Concept of Social Movement in Social Movements: The Key Concepts, Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Estes, Nick. 2017. "Fighting for Our Lives: #NoDAPL in Historical Context." Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2. Gale Literature Resource Center.
  • Kropotkin, Peter. 1902. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. London: William Heinemann. Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4341/pg4341-images.html.
  • Newman, Mark. 2010. Chapter 2. The Emergence of the Movement, 1941-59 in The Civil Rights Movement. Edinburgh University Press.

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): CRCJ 2100 , fourth-year standing, and enrollment in a B.A. or Minor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, or by permission of the Institute. Seminar three hours per week.

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