Friday 4/13/2007, 9am-1:50pm, field trip to a correctional facility
(Transportation will be provided for students. Meet in front of GIRV.)
Friday 4/27/2007, 12-4:50pm, GIRV 2110
Enrollment Code: 50351
California has the largest correctional populations in the nation. A fact that is often overlooked by policy makers and voters, however, is that the overwhelming majority of men and women who are incarcerated in California’s jails and prisons will eventually be released. How are these men and women able to make a life for themselves after incarceration? What challenges do they face? How do they negotiate these challenges? How do a small percentage of people manage to overcome these challenges? What types of policies encourage successful transitions from incarceration? We will critically consider the issue of “re-entry” during this two day-long seminar. Participants will also be encouraged to consider innovative ways to support successful transitions from incarceration to freedom on the local and state level.
Professor Nikki Jones, Sociology, areas of expertise include urban ethnography, race and ethnic relations, gender and crime, and criminology and criminal justice. She teaches graduate seminars on field research methods, intersections of race, gender, and class, and race gender, and justice, and upper-level undergraduate courses on the criminal justice system.
