CRIM 460: Surveillance and Privacy in Contemporary Society

CRIM 460-001: Surv/Privacy-Contemp Society
(Fall 2024)

04:30 PM to 05:45 PM MW

Music Theater Building 1007

Section Information for Fall 2024

The goals of this course are to develop an understanding of surveillance and privacy and the laws that regulate it. Surveillance and privacy are issues that are part of our everyday life, whether through our uses of phones or the internet and computers, or cameras, or our day to day travels through our streets. The use of the laws that regulate our rights of privacy are important in all areas of law enforcement and law itself. An understanding of Constitutional laws, and Supreme Court decisions relating to privacy and surveillance will be developed, as well as the use of those laws in law enforcement activities. 

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Philosophical perspectives, historical context, technological developments, and institutional changes that surround controversies about privacy and surveillance in contemporary society. Explores public and private institutions conducting surveillance, how they calculate and manage risk, and legal constraints on surveillance activities. Offered by Criminology, Law and Society. Limited to three attempts. Equivalent to GOVT 460.
Recommended Prerequisite: CRIM 100
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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