CRIJ 4311 Race, Class, Gender, and Delinquency
This course is designed to evaluate how race, class, gender, and other diversity issues impact juvenile delinquency and adult criminal patterns, responses to delinquent and criminal activity, and decision making within the criminal justice system. Special attention will be given to questions of racial profiling, mass incarceration, and the question of discrimination in criminal justice. Additionally, the course focuses on these demographic features through a critical criminology lens that examines how the structural factors of the American economic, political, social, and criminal justice systems impact the likelihood of criminality for underprivileged populations.