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Punishment, Culture, and Society (LEGALST 160) Berkeley

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This course covers the roots of penal change in advanced economic countries since the 18th century with attention to California's penal crisis, in the early 21st century & comparisons with trends in the rest of North America, Asia, Europe, & South America. #crime #punishment

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Other information: http://goo.gl/KhIZnQ

Language: English

Professors: Michael Williams

Units: 27

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Lec 1: Must we treat prisoners humanly
Lec 2: Can we execute people humanely
Lec 3: The Philosophy and Psychology of Retribution
Lec 4: Deterrence and Incapacitation
Lec 5: Community and Social Solidarity
Lec 6: The Rituals of the Scaffold
Lec 7: The Uses of Spectacle
Lec 8: The Crisis of the Scaffold
Lec 9: The First Abolition and the Limits of the Project
Lec 10: Abolition and Human Rights since WWII
Lec 11: America's Near-Abolition - American Death ...
Lec 12a: The Long and Winding Road to Abolitio...
Lec 12b: The Long and Winding Road - continued
Lec 13: Capital Punishment in Asia
Lec 15: The New Death Penalty: Life without Pa...
Lec 16: The Prison and Its Competitors in the ...
Lec 17: The Birth of the Penitentiary
Lec 18: Prison Labor
Lec 19. Prison Discipline and Rehabilitation
Lec 20: What Is Mass Incarceration -
Lec 21: Mass Incarceration and Inequality
Lec 22: Supermax Prisons - Guest Lec
Lec 25. Community Corrections: Less Crime and Fewe...
Lec 26. Restorative Justice
Lec 27. From Humanitarian Crisis to Humanity: Humanitarian medicine and a new model of punishment
Lec 28. Dignifying Punishment: Human Rights and the Future of Imprisonment

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