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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits Intensive study of a topic to be announced. Prerequisites: ENG 101, SOC 101 and permission of the instructor.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Programs for the social treatment of criminals. Th e police system and criminal procedure. Th e penal and reformatory institutions in their physical, educational and social aspects. Probation and parole problems. A survey of theories and practices in penology. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and SOC 203
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course surveys how undesirable social conditions like poverty, inequality, racism, sexism, corruption, pollution and overpopulation come to be defi ned or ignored as social problems. Reviews the wide variety of possible solutions to these social problems proposed by diff erent interest groups and social movements. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, SOC 101, and junior standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS An understanding of the place of legal systems within social systems from the perspective of social theory. Systems of jurisprudence, both civil and criminal, will be explored for their social meaning and use as instruments of social control. Manifest and latent functions in the administration of justice, the interactions of lawyers, police, prosecutors and judges as well as their relations with the public will be studied. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, SOC 101, and junior standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course examines the changes in the methods, patterns and meanings of violence. Special attention is paid to individual and collective violence in the streets, in schools, at home, within the media, by the police, by terrorists and by the military. Th e major theories explaining the causes of violence, and important research about attitudes toward violence and the use of force to bring about change are reviewed. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, SOC 101, and junior standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Sociological, psychological and biological factors in juvenile delinquency. A survey of theories of juvenile delinquency. Modern trends in prevention and treatment. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, SOC 101, and junior standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th e factors in, and the eff ects of, cultural conditioning on the biological foundations of personality. A study, on a cross-cultural basis, of the conditioning factors of child care and training, group value attitudes, practices and culture forms, with reference to basic personality formation. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, junior standing or above, and one of the following: ANT 101, PSY 101 or S0C 101
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3.00 Credits
3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Consideration of the main contributions of sociological theorists since the 19th century toward an understanding of the conditions under which stable social orders are established and sustained. Views as diverse as those of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Parsons will be considered. Topics include issues concerning value consensus, institutions, mechanisms of social control, political and economic power, class stratifi cation and bureaucracy. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, SOC 101, and junior standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course will examine the role of gender in crime and criminal justice and will cover the following topics from a cross-cultural comparative perspective: 1) women as off enders, including the range of off enses, their seriousness, and changes in the nature; 2) women as victims, including abused women, rape victims, and women forced into prostitution; 3) women as social control agents/professionals in the criminal justice systems (as attorneys, police offi cers, correctional offi cers, etc.). Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, junior standing or above, and one of the following: SOC 101, CRJ 101 or ICJ 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course asks what changes take place when a population moves from a rural to an urban area, from one country to another and from a pre-industrial to an industrial society. Th eories of the links of migration with crime and entrepreneurship are tested for both past and current immigrant groups. Th e sub-economies and subcultures that immigrants create are also considered. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, SOC 101 and junior standing or above
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