Crime and Punishment
This course examines how notions of crime and punishment have evolved between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (with the early modern period serving as a backdrop).
Outcomes: Students will be able to draw conclusions on what precisely caused the shifts in punishment, with attention to such things as the professionalization of the judiciary, industrialization and urbanization, the American Civil War, and Constitutional changes; Students will also gain an understanding of sociological and anthropological approaches to this topic.
Outcomes: Students will be able to draw conclusions on what precisely caused the shifts in punishment, with attention to such things as the professionalization of the judiciary, industrialization and urbanization, the American Civil War, and Constitutional changes; Students will also gain an understanding of sociological and anthropological approaches to this topic.