POLS UN3255

I learned about many different carceral systems (immigration, mass incarceration, prisons, courts, prosecution, etc). I also learned the different theories of how racism affects these systems and theories about racism itself. There was a large emphasis on experimental design and interpretation of vast amounts of data.

I learned a lot about how race and inequality intersect every aspect of the carceral system. I learned about the different I learned about the nature of policing, prisons, prosecutors, and courts and how all these institutions work together to maintain the status quo and restrict the citizenship and rights of marginalized groups. I learned a lot about analyzing data and graphs, and how these empirical resources could help support arguments about institutional racism in the carceral system.

I learned how to analyze and understand claims relating to race, the carceral system and its related institutions. I learned how to logically analyze and develop claims like a social scientist. I learned how to analyze empirical data in the service of a claim. I learned generally how to employ the perspective of a social scientist in observing social phenomena and institutions.

I learned a lot about American carceral institutions, underlying systems of inequity, and how this effects certain groups.

I learned about the history, composition and current implementation of carceral/policing apparatuses and their relationship to the creation of racial structures in the United States. This class was incredibly evidence and data-based and will particularly help with data interpretation skills.

history of policing, the carceral system, etc in america and how it is currently, with a special emphasis to NY in some regard

new perspectives on the carceral system in the us and the impact that race has on it.

This class was focused on learning about the U.S. carceral system and all of the criminal agency actors that engaged with it. Specifically, how these actors played a role in its racial organization. I also really feel like I learned how to analyze data. Professor McCall emphasized evaluating data as an important characteristic of the political science field and I feel much more confident looking at regression tables and survey data.

focused on empirical research relating to the topic of the course

This class felt very repetitive at times with the course material. Mr.McCall also spent a lot of time in lecture discussing police data, as this is his hobby (which he described to us several times that he looks at police data for fun), so a background in statistics or political methods would be good to have. However, Mr.McCall did seem very passionate about the topic and knew a lot about the different systems and always had interesting comments to make. He also gave advice about how to navigate college and the future as he knew many students were interested in the political science field but did not necessarily know how they wanted to progress through undergrad without us even needing to ask. We did learn a lot about the different systems in great detail, and the readings helped supplement our knowledge. I found that I learned a lot of material and gained mastership in understanding different carceral systems without even necessarily realizing.