Critical Theories of Criminalization and Punishment

Graduate credit

With an emphasis on ethnographic and anthropological contributions, this course will examine the processes, institutions and techniques through which people are criminalized, caged, and controlled and their human impacts. In doing so, we will "deep dive" into distinct (and sometimes competing) analytic frameworks used to explain the driving forces of the U.S. carceral regime and consider the political stakes of different ways of understanding, explaining, and addressing the problem.