Course Description

This course examines the role of race, class, and gender in the criminal justice system, with close attention to questions of racial profiling, mass incarceration, and the question of discrimination in criminal justice. Students are given an opportunity to examine unique issues raised by race, class, and gender in relation to crime and the criminal justice system. This course provides guidance for self-reflection and analysis of unconscious bias and institutional racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, race, national origin, immigration status in Native American, African American, Asian American and Latino/a American communities.