Institutional Learning Outcomes: Knowledge Students examine the processes involved in the social construction of crime and deviance with special emphasis on the research tradition of Michel Foucault and governmentality. Drawing on Foucault, students critically examine the relationship between human sciences discourses, disciplinary forms of power, and the creation of modern forms of subjectivity. Students research the development of the prison system and the recent emergence of new strategies of social control which seek to govern behavior outside of institutional structures. Students explore specific issues such as alternative penal practices like restorative justice, Indigenous sentencing circles and healing centers, the application of public health models to control addiction, IV drug use and sex work, governmental strategies to respond to domestic violence and hate crime, and the contemporary expansion of surveillance, risk management, audits, situational controls and legal exemptions. Recommended Prerequisites: SOCI 1111 or SOCI 1211.
Institutional Learning Outcomes: Knowledge Students examine the processes involved in the social construction of crime and deviance with special emphasis on the research tradition of Michel Foucault and governmentality. Drawing on Foucault, students critically examine the relationship between human sciences discourses, disciplinary forms of power, and the creation of modern forms of subjectivity. Students research the development of the prison system and the recent emergence of new strategies of social control which seek to govern behavior outside of institutional structures. Students explore specific issues such as alternative penal practices like restorative justice, Indigenous sentencing circles and healing centers, the application of public health models to control addiction, IV drug use and sex work, governmental strategies to respond to domestic violence and hate crime, and the contemporary expansion of surveillance, risk management, audits, situational controls and legal exemptions. Recommended Prerequisites: SOCI 1111 or SOCI 1211.
