Date:
Wed, 12/16/2015
Location:
301 Marx Hall
Event Category:
Co-sponsored Event
Audience:
Public
The seminar will study important legal cases in the field of criminal justice alongside some works of literature that appear to deal with the same issues. Focus on reading legal opinions, especially concerning: guilty minds and guilty acts, detection, evidence, confessions, punishment. Attention also to the analysis of narrative and rhetoric in both law and literature.
Readings
Foucault, Discipline and Punish (selection)
Miller, The Novel and the Police (selection)
Florence v. County of Burlington, 566 U.S. ____
Kafka, In the Penal Colony