Gender and the Criminal Justice System

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course explores Canadian criminal justice practices through a gendered lens. Students examine how gender contours our understanding of crime, its construction, and representation. Students examine the link between gender and surveillance, correction, legality, punishment, criminalization, and discipline found in criminal justice practices. The course utilizes feminist legal frameworks, historical and contemporary criminological, sociological, and political perspectives on gender and the system of justice. The primary focus is an examination of an intersectional approach to assess how the law structures and is structured by social contexts and social inequalities, including race, class, and sexuality. Requisite Courses: CJ-1101 or CJ-1002 and CJ-2100 [prerequisite(s)].