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Course Level: Graduate Throughout history, society has grappled with the critical issues of constructing and maintaining a just society in the face of terror. This course studies issues of justice and responses to terror from the perspectives of history, ethics, literature, politics, and law, and works to evaluate the justice of societal responses. Usually offered every summer. Meets with JLS-421.
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Course Level: Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics in law and social theory, including freedom of speech and religion; liberty and private property; feminist legal theory; critical legal studies; and law and economics; among others, are examined.
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Course Level: Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics in concepts of sovereignty; power, equality, and welfare; legitimacy, obligation and democratic theory; among others, are examined.
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Course Level: Graduate An examination of race and justice in America, with a focus on the historical and contemporary experiences of African Americans. Includes slavery, plantation prisons, legal and illegal executions, medical experimentation, segregation, poverty, ghettos, and contemporary prisons. Usually offered every fall.
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Course Level: Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. An examination of major U.S. police and law enforcement systems and issues. The focus of the course may be either the role of police in society, police-community relations, and special problems in policing, or management and policy issues such as police organization, federalism, police effectiveness, police discretion and use of force, and police accountability.
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Course Level: Graduate Examines the intersection of religion with American law, politics, and society. The course focuses on the role of religion in the constitutions, statues, and policies of federal and state governments, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions defining church-state law. Also examines the experiences and contributions of minority religious sects and politico-religious movements in American life.
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Course Level: Graduate This course examines the development of law and its justification as the source of authority in the modern state. Students examine how the law itself and different conceptions of it have been used to control and legitimize law governed behavior. Usually offered alternate springs.
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Course Level: Graduate This course examines the problem of terrorism and its causes, to provide a basis for preventing it. It includes distinctions among types of terrorism, crime and aggression, their causes, and implications for prevention; Huntington's clash of civilization model; cross-cultural dialog and exchange; the management of fear; the applicability of crime prevention strategies to the problem of terrorism; the role of religion, the reshaping of military and intelligence strategies; use of technology for diction and prevention; and the management of errors in balancing security and rights. Usually every spring
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Course Level: Graduate Examination of the philosophical issues associated with criminal punishment, particularly theories of the moral justification for punishment. The course considers retributive, deterrent, incapacitation, and moral reform theories, the role of victim and community anger in the imposition of punishment, as well as alternatives such as restorative justice. Usually offered every spring.
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Course Level: Graduate The logic of scientific inquiry and the nature and process of social research as applied to justice. Theory, concepts, practices, and the demonstration of their reliability and validity. Attention is also given to methods of sampling design and techniques of data collection. Usually offered every fall.
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