Criminology Provides students with an introduction to the study of crime, criminals, and the reaction of the criminal justice system to both. It explores the interrelationships among law, policy, and societal conditions. Because these relationships are dynamic, criminology is an interdisciplinary investigation that integrates a variety of perspectives and approaches to understand the origins of crime and the rationale for and effectiveness of society's response to such crime. The course will analyze crime and the criminal justice process within a context in which the community at large, the general public, is viewed as the proper consumer of the criminal justice system and how the public could or should be involved in the process of society's response to crime and criminals. Moreover, social control has evolved considerably over time and various social control philosophies and techniques have been prevalent in one time frame but not in others.
Emphasis is placed on both criminal statutes and case-law.