CJS 408 - Social Justice

Institution:

Roger Williams University

Subject:

ELECTIVE COURSES

Description:

Prerequisites: CJS 105, CJS 106Social Justice investigates the relationships among and between socialpolicy, the concept of justice and the practice of the criminal justicesystem. This course examines how social policy pursues differentpotential visions of social justice and how those visions are defined.Race, ethnicity, gender, power and marginalization issues will beaddressed, particularly with regard to how those realities are affectedby and how they affect the criminal justice system. Inequality andthe relatively new concept of restorative justice will be examined asa means of addressing both real and perceived inequities within thecriminal justice system.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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