Welcome - Exploring Crime and Criminal Behavior SOSA 2182   Exploring Crime and Criminal Behavior
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course involves application of sociological theories to questions about crime, deviance, and criminal justice. The course utilizes a diverse range of theoretical and empirical sources to build students’ understanding of how social science can help us understand, and better respond to, serious transgression and willful harms. The course will review major mainstream and critical perspectives on how we define, explain, and respond to crime. The course will involve an exploration of social phenomena including crime rates; interpersonal, institutional, and state violence; gender-based violence; race and crime; ‘new’ crime types such as cybercrime and transnational organized crime; and state and non-state responses to crime, deviance and harm. While not a prerequisite, SOSA 2181 is encouraged prior to taking this course as it involves a more comprehensive review of sociological theories of crime.
NOTES: Approved with Law and Society Minor.
PREREQUISITES: One SOSA course at the 1000 level or FYP
EXCLUSIONS: SOSA 2180X/Y.06