LAWS 5664
Crime, Law and Security
Contemporary debates around crime, criminal justice and security as mediated through law. The interrelationship between the politics, process and reform of criminal justice in a socio-legal context.
2026
Topics
- (*) denotes suggested
- What is ‘Police and Capital’? (Rigakos) [Sep. 15]
- Capitalist Production (Rigakos) [Sep. 22]
- Surplus Value. (Marxists.org)
- Economics, 32(2):61-73
- labour, History of Political Economy, 17(4): 591-618.
- Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. Aldershot: Gower.
- LAWS 6004 F /LAWS 5664 F/ FALL - 2026
- LAWS 5306 F
Readings
- Rigakos, George S., John L. McMullan, Joshua Johnson and Gulden Ozcan, Eds., A General Police System: Political Economy and Security in the Age of Enlightenment. Ottawa:
- Red Quill Books, 2009. $42.50 USD
- The Anti-security Collective. The Security Abolition Manifesto. Ottawa: Red Quill Books, 2024.
- Neocleous, Mark and George S. Rigakos, Eds. Anti-security. Ottawa: Red Quill Books, 2011.
Prerequisites & course information
Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as Also offered as LAWS 6004 , with different requirements where appropriate, for which additional credit is precluded.