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Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law

21H.319 · History · Undergraduate · Fall 2014

Prof. Malick Ghachem

MIT · Tier 1

This seminar looks at key issues in the historical development and current state of modern American criminal justice, with an emphasis on its relationship to citizenship, nationhood, and race/ethnicity. We begin with a range of perspectives on the rise of what is often called “mass incarceration”: how did our current system of criminal punishment take shape, and what role did race play in that process? Part Two takes up a series of case studies, including racial disparities in the administratio…

HumanitiesLawPolitical SciencePolicy and AdministrationSociologyHistory

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Prof. Malick Ghachem. 21H.319 Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law. Fall 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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