Bachelor degrees in Criminology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of crime as a sociopathological phenomenon, the behavior of criminals, and the social institutions evolved to respond to crime. Includes instruction in the theory of crime, psychological and social bases of criminal behavior, social value systems and the theory of punishment, criminal law and criminal justice systems, penology, rehabilitation and recidivism, studies of specific types of crime, social attitudes and policy, and applications to specific issues in law enforcement administration and policy.
The criminology track exposes students to the sociological perspective through study of the methodology of the field, basic theoretical paradigms, as well as the study of socialization, culture, deviance and conformity, social organization and societal development, complex organizations and the principles of stratification and other forms of social inequality. In addition, students study the social problem of crime and deviance within the context...
The Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice will foster an awareness of the various schools of thought and social theories on the origins, nature and extent of criminal behavior, criminal justice and the justice system. Courses will stress the relationship between issues of criminal behavior and criminal justice and sociological factors such as class, gender, race and other demographic characteristics. Students are encouraged to do an internship in order...
Students majoring in criminology learn how to conduct and evaluate research, examine and contextualize the social bases of deviant and normal behavior and analyze the social institutions that impact criminal behavior. Graduates are prepared to examine crime, corrections and the criminal justice system from a critical, research-based stance and to see these issues through the sociological lens of social structures and social processes. Upper-division...
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