GEOG 334 - The Prison and the City

In today’s era of mass incarceration, most prisoners come from cities and it is to cities that they will return upon release. Additionally, scholars note that cities are increasingly ‘governed through crime,’ whereby crime control has become the de facto mission of a wide array of urban institutions and agencies. This is true despite the fact that most prisons are sited in rural locales. Students use geographic tools and theories to investigate the relationship between prisons and cities spatially, politically, and socially in the twenty-first century United States and beyond.

Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: No First-year
Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents
Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing
Core Component: None

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