Power and Justice
The department's focus in this area examines social inequality along multiple dimensions including race, ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality, gender, class and other dimensions. Faculty in the area also look at social institutions, social processes and social practices. They analyze crime, policing surveillance, social movements, resistance as well as studies of citizenship and identity, education and social inequality, the relationship between economic inequality and political attitudes in cross-national perspective, policing and terrorism studies, and income inequality and crime across nations. Key to this area is the study of processes that are shaped by power.
