Prerequisites: students must have taken either HUBIC 201 or CASPO 316 to be eligible to take this course. - This course examines the politics of resistance to the criminal justice system from within-system reform to whole-scale abolition, including attempts to develop "alternatives", defined broadly to include prisons, policing, immigration control, and the child welfare system/family policing. Effective Spring 2026, this course fulfills a single requirement in the following BU HUB area: Social Inquiry 2.

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