Critical Criminology

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Examines neo-Marxist, feminist, critical race, and post-structuralist theories of crime and crime control, and how criminalization operates through the neo-liberal state. Topics include corporate crime, environmental crime, the prison industrial complex, and prison abolition. Prerequisite: 5.0 university credits including at least 1.0 credit in SOCI at the 2000 level.