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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Current theory and research on aggression; anger and violence as problems in individual and social functioning. Process and functions of anger examined with regard to normal behavior and psychopathology. The determinants, prevalence, and implications of violence in society are analyzed. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P175P.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Role of the legal profession in modern society, the diverse professional roles lawyers play, the American legal profession compared with that of other societies. "Litigation explosion," ethical problems, interactions between lawyers and other professionals, training and socialization of new lawyers.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines crimes committed against persons, property, society, and the government in which a computer is used. How these computer crimes are committed, investigated, and ultimately prosecuted.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Indepth examination of the social psychology of police interrogation in America, the evolution of American interrogation practices from the nineteenth century to the present, impact of law on police behavior and ideology, causes and consequences of false confessions, possibilities of reform. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P156S.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines various ways of justifying system of rights and looks at interrelations and conflicts between various elements. Focuses on four distinct categories of rights: civil rights, property rights, welfare rights, and human rights.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Provides theoretical tools to understand the relationship between law and society. Focuses on the connections between law and discourse, power, space and geography, economic markets, gender, race, class, democratic legitimacy, and the indeterminacy of language.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines the intersection of influence and memory on law with a theoretical discussion of the social psychology of influence, suggestion, and decision making. Phenomenon of coercive persuasion, social origins and perpetuation of moral panic, how it can lead to wrongful prosecution.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Taking an urban policy approach, examines the background and contemporary traditions of gangs in several ethnic groups including African-, Asian-, and Mexican-Americans. Cross-cultural exploration of the varied facets of gang life. The major social-control institutions affecting them. Same as Chicano/ Latino Studies 153. ( VII)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Considers the role of language in legal practice and power. Particular attention is paid to linguistic and discourse analytic research that covers topics such as: trial talk, language crimes, law talk in cross-cultural perspectives, and linguistic evidence.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Considers U.S. laws governing Native Americans and the way these laws shape and reflect popular conceptions of Native identity. Also surveys the legal practices that Native Nations themselves enact to articulate their sovereign status and identities. ( VII)
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