SC 430 - Seminar: Gender and Justice

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: SC 101 or SC 210 . Restricted to juniors and seniors. Explores the capacity of the U.S. criminal justice system to deliver gender equal justice by also exploring how legislation, interpretation, and application of criminal law reflects gendered, raced, and classed assumptions about human nature, appropriate roles, and positions in society. Focuses on processing victims and offenders and access to legal employment. Seminar format with limited enrollment. IFS/IG