The relationship between law and society, or the interaction of legal and social variables. An introduction to the statistical techniques used by social scientists to analyze their data.
Students learn descriptive and inferential statistics in conjunction with computer usage.
Basic skills and procedures are taught for organizing and describing data, for assessing relationships among social variables, and for using this information to make inferences about the population. Special attention given to noncriminal forms of deviance. The national and international organizational structure of organized crime will be analyzed. Primary attention will be given to comparative theories and concepts. The various methods of prosecution, investigation and control will be discussed.