This course provides an advanced historical and critical socio-legal examination of the intersections of social inequality, crime, and criminal justice in Canada and beyond. Much of the focus of contemporary discussions about inequalities, crime, and criminal justice centre on individual actors — police, judges, offenders, and so on. In this course we will move beyond simplistic notions about race, class, gender to examine how these identities come to be constructed and reconstructed, and how they inform and are informed by criminal justice policies, practices, and outcomes. Students will be introduced to a range of practical and theoretical issues associated with state responses to marginalized groups and how these groups perceive and experience crime and criminal justice. Course readings will consist of a combination of theoretical and empirical materials from Canada and other Western nations. The course will interrogate how new technologies, such as the rise of big data analytics and predictive decision-making influence the administration of criminal justice. The goal of the course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the intersections between social inequalities, crime, and criminal justice.