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Nov 23, 2024
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CJ109 Justice in America: Traditional and Alternative Forms of Justice4 credit(s)
This course serves as an anchor for the First Year Experience by welcoming you into the Saint Mary’s University community and providing an opportunity for the development of academic skills in the area/discipline of criminal justice/sociology/political science. Inquiry into the concept of justice in the United States will allow you to develop habits and ways of thinking to take forward into any Interdisciplinary Minor of your choice. This course incorporates the common themes of Place, Purpose, and Well-Being by examining what justice should look like. This course explores the historically changing notions of justice that have shaped narratives of justice in America. How have differing concepts of justice informed Americans’ perceptions of rights, liberty, community responsibilities, and the role of the state? This anchor course introduces students to an interdisciplinary approach that puts legal and philosophical concepts in dialog with social science data. How do academics, activists, and artists (not mutually exclusive categories) represent injustices, define justice and envision a just world? We will interrogate the concepts of retributive justices, reparative justice, sovereignty rights, and restorative and transformative justice. Questions we will consider throughout the course include: What is justice? Whose rights and needs are addressed in efforts to achieve justice? How do factors such as race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and ability inform definitions of justice? Where should justice be handled–on the community level or the national level?
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