URBNST 0140 - CRIME, PUNISHMENT, JUSTICE, REINTEGRATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on the concept of punishment as a response to a criminal act. While in religiously-grounded societies punishment is seen as a retribution for an evil act, tendencies in modernity (and post-modernity) privilege the use of punishment as a tool for social reintegration. With the rise of human rights-based doctrines, the characterization of punishment as retribution has proven to be more and more difficult to justify. Even if sayings such as "paying my debt to society" are still in use, it is becoming more and more evident - especially in a time of mass incarceration - how incarceration as punishment cannot be the only solution. This course exposes students to ideas of justice as a process aimed at reintegrating wrong-doers in society through a path of reconciliation and re-socialization, so that the end of the process will produce fellow citizens rather than ex-felons.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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