Race, Class & Punishment
- Marie Gottschalk
- College of Arts & Sciences
- First-Year Seminar Grant
This first-year seminar analyzes the politics of “crime in the streets” and “crime in the suites.” Key topics include the causes and consequences of mass incarceration; the rise of the carceral state; racial, economic, and gender disparities in punishment; similarities and differences between how crime in the streets and crime in the suites are punished; the Great Recession; the opioid crisis; and environmental crimes and global warming.