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21H.319 Crime, Punishment, and Policing in America
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Not offered academic year 2025-2026Undergrad (Spring) HASS Social Sciences
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
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Provides an overview of the law of crime and punishment in the United States, focusing on the interaction between policing practices and the development of the criminal justice system since the late eighteenth century. Examines competing accounts of the history of "mass incarceration" and the debate over whether American criminal justice amounts to an instrument of racial control. Case studies include the death penalty, criminal procedure, counter-terrorism law before and after 9/11, and the long history of American police reform.
M. Ghachem