PSC 203 - The Politics of Law

Institution:

University of New England

Subject:

Political Science

Description:

This course explores the interaction between law and politics in the contemporary society. We will pay close attention to three sets of relationships: between law and community, between law and justice and between law and violence. While exploring these interactions we will develop two faces of law; law as official institutions (courts) and actors (judges, lawyers, police) and laws as norms, symbols, and discourses. We will then consider the norms, symbols, and discourses. We will then consider the macro-politics of law in the death penalty and war on drugs and micro-politics of legal mobilization in neighborhoods and local settings.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

09/01/2006 - 09/01/2007 

Institution Website:

www.une.edu/

Phone Number:

(207) 283-0171

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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