POLI 285 - Global Policing, Prisons, and Abolition

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

In the United States, police brutality and mass incarceration are in the spotlight today, largely thanks to grassroots movements demanding radical change and even total abolition. But policing and prisons are global phenomena, and so are the movements struggling against them. This course understands policing and prisons as entangled with and embedded within broader global structures of colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, and counterinsurgency, challenging students to think beyond the particularities of US-based abolitionist movements to grapple with questions of global capitalism and imperial power. George Ciccariello-Maher.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS