SOCI 330 - Sociology of Jails and Prisons

3 Credits
Three hours per week.

This course takes the student behind the walls of jails and prisons in order to explain how these institutions function both as parts of larger social systems and in and of themselves. Some attention is given to institutional subcultures, to institutional programs and policies, and to issues associated with the privatization of jails and prisons

Offered (OFFERED AS NEEDED).