CRIM 4235

Students will critically analyze the practices of othering. They will learn how these practices separate, exclude, and disempower based on profiles organized by race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, religion, education, ability, socio-economic status, and/or other such categorizations. Students will examine relations of power between marginalized and non-marginalized groups within the criminal justice system, investigating processes of criminalization, victimization, oppression, colonization, and resistance. Note: This is a seminar course.