Learning Objectives

4.1 Explain how economic inequalities shape conceptions of crime, law, and justice.

4.2 Demonstrate the different ways that the criminal justice system reflects society’s racial inequalities.

4.3 Describe the role that gender inequality plays in the study of crime and criminal justice.

4.4 Identify the ways that race, sex, and class overlap in American inequality.

4.5 Examine the environmental criminology, postmodern, and queer criminology movements.