Prerequisite(s): JUST 101 or JUST 102 or JUST 204 or JUST 205 or departmental approval. The purpose of this course is to explore justice-related issues of crime and punishment in both historical and contemporary settings - to examine, for instance, how and why some acts become defined as crimes and others do not, how and why these definitions change over time, and what factors (eg. race, class, and gender) influence and determine these changes.