GSS2123

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LAW AND SOCIAL CONTROL

General Social & Behav Sci-GSSSocial and Behavioral Sciences
Course DetailsPrerequisites/CorequisitesCourse Learning Outcomes

Subject Code

GSS

Course Number

2123

Department(s)

General Social & Behav Sci-GSS

Course Description

A general introduction to the nature of law and legal institutions as a means of social control. Court cases and social science research are used to examine the procedures, rationales, and objectives of detention and confinement in American society with a focus on cruel and unusual punishment, civil commitment, competency, insanity, right-to-treatment, and juvenile as well as quasi-criminal commitments.

Units

4