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3.00 Credits
Analysis of law with respect to its functions as a means of social control and its relationships with other social institutions. Topics include an interdisciplinary survey of jurisprudence, the natural law approach versus legal and cultural realism, law as a source of crime, the administration of justice, and law in non-Western cultures. Prerequisite: ANT 102 or SOC 100 or 150. Also listed as SOC 375. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.) Frequency code B = offered at least once per year Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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Study of legal rules and procedures that are essential to the criminal judicial process. Examination of the English basis for criminal law, an analysis of the relationship between the state and the development of criminal law. Examination of criminal law and rules of evidence with emphasis on the origins, development, scope and impact on the accused, the criminal justice system, and society. Prerequisite: ANT 102 or SOC 100 or 150. Also listed as SOC 377. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.) Frequency code B = offered at least once per year Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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Surveys the broad range of white-collar crimes from employee embezzlement to corporate pollution law violations. Includes extensive coverage of the theories proposed to explain white-collar crimes, the methodologies used to study white-collar wrongdoing and a review of the strategies proposed to control white-collar crimes. Prerequisite: ANT 102 or SOC 100 or 150. Also listed as SOC 380. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.) Frequency code B = offered at least once per year Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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3.00 Credits
Involvement of the poor and minorities, especially African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and women in crime and the criminal justice system. Special attention given to the role of racism in theories of crime and criminal law and the treatment of minorities by the police, courts and other components of the criminal justice system. Prerequisite: ANT 102 or SOC 100 or 150. Also listed as SOC 383. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.) Frequency code B = offered at least once per year Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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3.00 Credits
Historical development of juvenile court; theoretical interpretations of delinquency; modern trends in prevention, treatment. Prerequisite: ANT 102 or SOC 100 or 150. Also listed as SOC 462. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.) Frequency code B = offered at least once per year Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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3.00 Credits
Sociological study of crime and its consequences; the etiology, extent and nature of crime in society. The focus of attention is on an historical and contemporary examination of that nature, role, and causes of crime and the relationship between crime and social control. Topics include explanations for crime, typologies of crime, criminal statistics, criminal law, and how pragmatic agencies of the justice system?- the police and courts?- operate to prevent, detect, manage and influence crime in society. Prerequisite: ANT 102 or SOC 100 or 150. Also listed as SOC 463. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)Frequency code B = offered at least once per year Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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3.00 Credits
Historical approach to correctional ideas and institutions in the United States and Europe. Focus is on the development of institutions and ideas for "correcting" dependent poverty, criminality, delinquency and mental illness. Examination of the changing relationship between correctional institutions and other economic and social institutions. Prerequisite: ANT 102 or SOC 100 or 150. Also listed as SOC 464. Fulfills: LASR; PRES. (3 cr. hr.)Frequency code B = offered at least once per year Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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3.00 Credits
Examines theory and research on social control defined as the techniques that people, as individuals and collectively, use to define or respond to deviant behavior. Particular attention paid to social control measures directed at what is conveniently called crime. Historical and cross-national perspectives on social control are emphasized. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or 150 or ANT 102. Also listed as SOC 477. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.) Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the death penalty as an element of American criminal justice policy. Topics include the development of the modern system of capital punishment; the responsibilities and experiences of attorneys, jurors, prison personnel and others in its implementation; the social network of death row; and empirical research on deterrence, sentencing disparities by race, and death penalty's fiscal impact, the estimated probability of miscarriages of justice, and other issues in the current policy debate. Prerequisite: ANT 102 or SOC 100 or 150. Also listed as SOC 485. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.) Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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3.00 Credits
(O) Theoretical, empirical analysis of selected topics in criminology. Topics will vary according to instructor. Prerequisites: Nine credit hours of criminology, junior standing. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.) Frequency code O = offered occasionally Additional frequency code descriptions can be found in the Terminology Guide.
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