# AFROAMER/LEGALST 434: Criminal Injustice in America | UW–Madison

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CRIMINAL INJUSTICE IN AMERICA

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Examines how the carceral system has been essential to the construction and maintenance of the racial order in the United States. Studies the carceral system's use of surveillance, detention, violence, arrest, charging, pretrial detention, trial, sentencing, and probation through a lens of race. Explores the narratives and legal doctrines that legitimize carceral apartheid.

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* Legal narratives and doctrines legitimizing carceral apartheid
* Construction and maintenance of the racial order

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