Law, Politics and Mass Incarceration
LAW-406SEM-COE
University at Buffalo
- Semester
- Summer 2025
- Instructor
- Joshua R Coene
- Start Date
- 05-27-2025
- Total Credits
- 3
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This seminar explores how mass incarceration developed since the 1970s and how it affected the country's legal, political, and social order. We will consider changes in broad areas of criminal justice administration, such as policing practices and sentencing law. We will also examine internal changes to penal institutions, the legal status of incarcerated persons, and prison litigation over various conditions of confinement, prison management, disciplinary systems, medical and mental health care, solitary confinement, and current correctional programming. Throughout, we will consider how social, economic, and political factors shaped the growth of the carceral state and current prospects of reform.
Prerequisites:
LAW 101 and (LAW 201 or LAW 202).
Course Area: Paralegal/Law
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 05-27-2025 - 07-07-2025
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