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2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

WGS 386 - Prison Industrial Complex

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Pre-req: Minimum of 60 credits or permission of instructor
An investigation of how the political, social, and economic interests that converge on the site of the prison determine criminal justice policy. This course is a study in the cultural and political economic dimensions of structural violence, with the prison system as the illustrative case study. Cross-listed with BLS 386, CJS 386
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