HIST 4450 - History of Crime in America

4 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
An examination of crime from the colonial period to the present. Specific topics include piracy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, outlaws in the U. S. West after the Civil War, the Mafia during the twentieth century. Emphasis on the relation between crime, capitalism, the state, and race.