Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Race, Place, and the Law: The Case of Mass Criminal Punishment

This course explores the institutional stakes of geography for economic opportunity and democratic representation, focusing on racial separation and subjugation in the United States. The first part of the course considers how law and policy help determine where people reside; the remainder explores how and why 'place' matters.The primary goals of this seminar will be to first understand the hidden stakes of geography, as shaped by racialized processes of exclusion and dispossession, and then to apply the resulting insights to contemporary policy problems.