LY310
Law and Social Control
0.5 Credit
Hours per week:
- Lecture/Discussion: 3
This course examines law as a mechanism of social control. Students will examine the formal and informal facets of social control that attempt to manage and regulate social life in desired ways. Topics may include historical regimes of social control, surveillance, crime prevention and control, pubic safety, policing, notions of public and private life, new technologies, and the politics of representation.
Additional Course Information
- Prerequisites
- Registration status: Year 3 or Year 4 or permission of the department.
