GOVT 3141

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GOVT 3141
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Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

The United States stands alone among Western, industrialized countries with its persistent, high rates of incarceration, long sentences, and continued use of the death penalty. This "American exceptionalism" -- the turn to mass incarceration -- has been fostered by the use of sharply-delineated categories that define vast numbers of people as outlaws and others as law-abiding. Our purpose in this course is to understand how social and political actors have utitlized ideas that have deep roots in American political thought (ideas about rights, race, and responsibility) in ways that have now come to define large groups of the population as 'carcerable.'

When Offered Fall, winter, summer.

Distribution Category (SBA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Dynamic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3141

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1005 GOVT 3141   LEC 001

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    • TBA
    • Dec 26, 2014 - Jan 17, 2015

    • Thomsen, D

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