CRIMINOLOGY
Term:
Summer 2012
Online:
No
Subject Area:
CRIMINOLOGY (CRIM)
Course Number:
CRIM 100 910
Day(s):
Tuesday
Day(s):
Thursday
Instructor:
Fulfills:
Society Sector (All Classes) Course Description:
This introductory course examines the multi-disciplinary science of law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcing. It reviews theories and data predicting where, when, by whom and against whom crimes happen. It also addresses the prevention of different offense types by different kinds of offenders against different kinds of people. Police, courts, prisons, and other institutions are critically examined as both preventing and causing crime. This course meets the general distribution requirement.
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