Cimini 3 credits 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. Cimini 3 credits Mindful of the role played by our judiciary in resolving disputes, setting policy, and otherwise having an impact on everyday life, this course provides a basic examination of America's courts in terms of their history and development, their structure and organization, their procedures, people, institutions, and issues. Friedrichs 3 credits Critical examination of theories and empirical studies of social deviance, focusing upon the formulation and application of deviant labels, organizations relating to deviance, and deviant behavioral patterns. Special attention given to noncriminal forms of deviance. Friedrichs 3 credits A study of white collar crime, including corporate misdeeds, political corruption, occupational illegalities and upperworld deviance.