Theories:

New penology

Jim crow laws

Wacquants deadly symbiosis

Foucault Body of the Condemned

Tonry Incarceration rates

Topic is looking at the relationship of mass incarceration and prison labor (legalized slavery)

Assess at least two theoretical approaches we engaged in class. You will pick a contemporary issue or story related to mass incarceration and analyze it in the context of these theories. In doing so, you will describe the issue or example and conceptualize how you would think of the issue given the perspectives you have chosen. From there, analyze the strengths and limitations of the approaches.

What are some directions to start with this?