ICJ 704 Crime, Justice, and Cultural Struggles
This course examines research on culture, power, and identity in international criminal justice. Students explore the concept of culture and how it relates to contemporary problems with justice systems. The scope of these strains ranges from conflicts between local groups, larger clashes over authority, and include global forces. These struggles involve concerns over culturally specific categories of identity such as gender, race, ethnicity, caste, religion, sexuality, or other social and political statuses, such as rights to property, place, behavior, and economic injustices. Through an examination of studies from different continents, students will learn both the substance of the issues, and the methods, analytical approaches, and rhetorical skills of research in the discipline.
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