Taught By:
Kevin Lynch
Lecturer in Department of Justice Studies
San Jose State University
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Course Description:
This course will cover an interdisciplinary, historical, and comparative examination of justice concepts and controversies, including the state's role in promoting justice and perpetuating injustice; legitimate versus illegitimate violence; human rights, stateless persons, and the international community; the relationship between social justice and criminal justice.
This course at this time: The moment has chosen you, future law enforcement, CSI agents, FBI, lawyers, investigators, probation, correctional officers, court and juvenile justice advocates. These jobs are changing rapidly as prison reform, police and other reforms grow increasingly urgent in our current socio-political environment. This semester, I’m excited to introduce social action into this course, which was created by Professor Emeritus Scott Myers-Lipton. This is my first time teaching this course, so we will struggle through it together. The course will have critical issues focus.
