Help

INTRO TO CRIMINOLOGY (CJP 110)

Term: 2014-2015 Fall

Faculty

Division Dean
Email address is hidden, click here to email
Shumeane L Benford
Email address is hidden, click here to email
Email all faculty members

Schedule

Mon, 6:00 PM - 8:45 PM (9/3/2014 - 12/19/2014) Location: MAIN 3 306

Description

PREREQUISITE: ENG101

This course introduces the student to the major perspectives, concerns, controversies, and debates that characterize the contemporary study of crime, criminals, and criminal behavior. It examines these problems by drawing upon other disciplines such as sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, philosophy, medicine, and biology i.e. to provide an integrated approach to understanding the problem of crime in contemporary society and to advance solutions to the crime quagmire.