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3.00 Credits
This course explores theoretical and practical issues of modern systems of social control, including punishment, policing, prisons, parole, probation, and the role of the state in social control. The history of Western social control systems is stressed, with emphasis on race, gender, and class effects. Students are required to engage in experiential learning. Prerequisites: CRM 215J and CRM 220. Cr 3.
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This course explores the relationship between the United States's social welfare policies and contemporary crime control problems and practices. It includes an examination of the United States's residual welfare state, theories on social welfare development, and the Nordic model of crime prevention, which is based on the premise that crime can be reduced through social policies designed to lessen structural inequalities. Prerequisite: CRM 215J. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of justice issues as they affect juveniles. Theoretical explanations for youth crime as well as the emergence of both "adolescence"and "delinquency" as socially constructedconcepts will be examined. In general, the course adopts an historical approach to youth crime. Prerequisite: CRM 215J. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers students an intensive study and review of statutory law, case law, and criminal procedure. Substantive topics covered include responsibility; insanity; grand jury; 4th, 5th, 8th and 14th Amendment issues; pre-trial; trial; sentencing and appeals. Materials are drawn from U.S. Supreme Court and Maine Judicial Court opinions. Prerequisites: CRM 215J or permission of instructor. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This special summer course in Sweden provides students with the opportunity to live in, study, and experience another culture and to gain an understanding of crime, criminology, and social control in another country. Visits will be made to the police department and court system in Stockholm and to several prisons in other cities. Lectures will be provided by sociologists at the Criminology Institute at the University of Stockholm, as well as by a variety of lawyers, judges, and political party leaders. Offered Summer Session only. Prerequisite: CRM 215J. Cr 6.
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3.00 Credits
Specially developed courses exploring areas of interest and concern in depth. Among these topics currently considered are war crimes, race and crime, ethno- methodology, homicide, visual criminology, film and crime, self and crime, sexuality and crime, and social theories of non-violence. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: CRM 215J. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with historical and current information on the death penalty in the United States. The following topics are covered: historical applications, deterrence, racial and gender bias, execution of innocent people, and the legal, political, economic, and moral perspectives of the death penalty. Prerequisite: CRM 215J. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
A reflexive approach to criminology examining criminological theories and perspectives as cultural and ideological products. Using cross-cultural and historical comparisons, the course analyzes the conditions under which "criminology" is produced. Wealso explore the connections between the product of the "criminology industry" and the reproduction ofbroader cultural and ideological patterns. Prerequisites: CRM 215J, CRM 301. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
It is important to examine how the media assemble, select, and disseminate "crime knowledge" to audiencesand thus influence their understanding of crime. The course uses a social constructionist approach to explore structural, institutional, and interactional contexts of media production. Prerequisite: CRM 215J. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores theory and research on restorative justice, which is an international movement of "progressive" reform that claims to reduce socialinequalities generating crime. Students explore theoretical and empirical developments in restorative justice and examine programs claiming restorative components, such as victim-offender mediation and diversionary conferences. Prerequisites: CRM215J and CRM 330. Cr 3.
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