POLI 182The Power to Punish
Interrogates the presuppositions of punishment as legitimate state power. Decentering crime as punishment's conceptual predicate, wider analysis of the penal state's social-scientific, jurisprudential, and philosophical foundations force us to ask: What is punishment? Why punish? How, and whom, to punish?
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Winter 2026Open Winter 2026
| Section | Type | When | Where | Instructor | Seats |
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| 01 | Lecture | Asynchronous | — | Staff | Closed 0/40 |
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