If you have juniors and seniors who are still looking for classes, GEOG 390 has room available:

“Cities, Crime, and Space”
How does urban space structure crime? How does crime structure urban space? Focusing on US cities, this theory-intensive module surveys traditional and critical perspectives on relations between crime, space, and place. We will explore this interplay within broader contexts of industrial and post-industrial urbanization, concentrating on dynamics including governance systems, economic processes, and social transformations. Emphases will be placed on the extent to which these interwoven processes react to, generate, classify and organize crime across cityscapes. The objective of the course is to provide theoretical tools to critically analyze how crime becomes spatialized, and how spaces become criminalized in contemporary US cities.

The course meets MW from 2-3:20 in Davenport 336, and would be of special interest to pre-law students as well as those interested in urban processes, race, and policing.

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Julie Cidell
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Geography and GIS