LAWS 4306 D: Global Incarceration
Winter 2022
Instructor: Professor. Hollis Moore
This interdisciplinary seminar addresses the expanding global prison population, foregrounding the experiences and insights of people who have been targeted by the criminal law. The seminar will magnify and center scholarship that has been cast to the margins and features work meant to challenge our carceral common sense. Through vivid descriptions and first-hand accounts of prison climates in the Global South and Global North, we will examine the dynamics and far-reaching effects of incarceration, including anti-prison activism. In particular, we will investigate how practices of incarceration reflect, reinforce, and produce ongoing colonialism as well as intersecting inequalities of class, race, and gender.
The course will include a 3+ week unit on incarceration in Latin America and LACS readings assigned in other weeks. Students can write a LACS-themed research paper.