The Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice is offering some new special topics at the 4000-level this coming Fall/Winter 2017-2018. Please see the advisor in the main office if you have questions about fitting these courses into your program. Both courses require CRCJ 1000 and 4th year standing in the BA Honours in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Fall 2017
CRCJ 4001 A – “Art of (In)Justice”
Professor Jeffrey Monaghan
How can we describe various relationships between art, representations (in)justice, and social change? This course explores how artistic and social movements have engaged in collective action – and expression – against forms of injustice, while also exploring how art/social movements themselves articulate a politics of justice. Offering a broad overview of themes, the course will focus on specific movements, as well as themes such as the role of visual art, music, prison writing, documentary making, and various ways in which artistic expressions have been taken up by anti-war, decolonial, queer, anti-oppressive movements among others, in working towards what Judith Butler calls pluralistic assemblies: expressions of participatory democracy.
Winter 2018
CRCJ 4001 C – “Sociologies of Punishment”
Professor Nicolas Carrier
Punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain. It is typically seen as an appropriate, natural, necessary, just or useful response to criminalized events. This seminar provides a thorough engagement with a) the different ways in which punishment has been justified in various historical and cultural contexts; b) the evolution of the forms of pain imposed in the name of criminal justice; c) the different ways in which social sciences have interpreted punitive practices and institutions, and; d) the critiques that have been forwarded to institutionalized punishment, including those mounted by abolitionist activists aiming to dismantle the entire criminal legal system.