Crime and Justice Interdisciplinary Concentration
The crime and justice interdisciplinary concentration (sociology, political science and psychology) focuses on the sociological, psychological and legal/political analysis of criminal deviance and society's responses to it. Students in this program pursue a curriculum which includes sociological and legal/political perspectives on crime, criminal deviance, juvenile delinquency, victimization, criminal law and legal sanctions, and the political/legal aspects of criminal codes within both the United States and in the global community. The courses in the curriculum provide students with a broad-based understanding of the traditional and contemporary theoretical explanations of criminal behavior, the current patterns related to the incidence and prevalence of crime and victimization in contemporary society; the methodological and statistical techniques used to measure and analyze criminal deviance; and the implications and ramifications of criminal deviance for society in general and for its individual members.
Requirements:
- SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology
(required general studies social science course)
- Any one of the following:
- SOC 201 Social Problems
- SOC 230 Cultural Sociology
- SOC 231 Cults and New Religious Movements
- SOC 262 Social Stratification and Structured Inequality
- ANT 204 Introduction to Anthropology
- SOC 240 Statistics (fulfills general studies quantitative reasoning requirement)
- SOC 251 Crime and Deviance
- Any three of the following:
- SOC 253 Criminal Investigation and SOC 254 Advanced Criminal Investigation (must take both courses)
- ANT 310 Crime, Culture and Conflict Resolution
- SOC 302 Juvenile Delinquency
- SOC 305 Terrorism
- SOC/LAS 307 Organized Crime
- SOC 309 Criminal Corrections
- SOC 311 Domestic Violence
- SOC 384 Elite Deviance
- SOC 385 Violence and Victims
- SOC 341 Research Methods
- SOC 490 Senior Seminar
- POS 101 American Government (required general studies social science course)
- POS 205 Comparative Politics or PSY 290 Diversity
- POS 216 Law and Society
- POS 231 Criminal Law
- POS 425 Senior Seminar in Political Science
- One of the following:
- POS 214 Public Policy
- POS 302 Public Administration
- POS 310 Metropolitan Politics
- PSY 100 General Psychology
- Two of the following:
- PSY 106 Social Psychology
- PSY 230 Theories of Development
- PSY 250 Theories of Personality
- PSY 390 Adult Psychopathology and Behavior Disorders*
- PSY 391 Child Psychopathology and Behavior Disorders*
- One from the following:
- IDS 303 Sex Roles
- IDS 305 Psychology and the Law
- IDS 323 Men and Women: Debating the Differences
*PSY 230 or permission of the instructor is a prerequisite for this course
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Crime and Justice Program
The purposes of the crime and justice program include:
- Introducing students to the dimensions and definitions of crime
- The implications of criminal deviance for crime victims as well as the changes in lifestyles and options for all members of society caused by both violent and nonviolent crime
- Understanding the nature of social systems and how criminal deviance is related to other social institutions
- Understanding the sociological theories used to explain criminal deviance
- Understanding, from a variety of academic perspectives, the role of law in human societies as both a regulating force and a preserver of individual rights and freedoms Students interested in completing this program will be able to satisfy some of their general studies requirements through courses in political
science, sociology, history and philosophy.
Requirements:
- Social Problems (SOC 201)
- Crime and Deviance (SOC 251)
- Two from the following: Crime, Culture and Conflict (ANT 310); Public Policy (POS 214); Law and Society (POS 216); Criminal Law (POS 231)
- Public Administration (POS 302)
- Philosophy and the Law (PHI 230)
- Juvenile Delinquency (SOC 302)
- American Social History (HIS 311)
- One from PSY 390 (if the student has satisfied the prerequisite) or PSY 391 (with permission of the instructor)
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