This seminar course examines Canadian policing from a critical perspective across its historical roots, contemporary form, and future possibilities. Genders and masculinities, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status (and their intersections), police culture, organizational structure/operations, resistance and justice, public impacts, and mechanisms for radical transformation are explored.

Antirequisite(s): Sociology 3325F/G if taken in 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023.

Prerequisite(s): 1.0 from Sociology courses at the 1000 level.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.