Course Schedule: Date Topic Required Chapter(s) What’s Due? ## •Introduction •Syllabus ## ## ## ## •Criminology •Crime and Deviance •Social Change and the Emergence of Law •Crime and Criminal Law •The Crime Problem •Theory and Methodology •Research Enterprise of Criminology •Who is Criminal? •Official Police Statistics – The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) •Alternative Data-Gathering Strategies •Experiments in Criminology •Surveys •Participant Observation •Life History and Case Studies •Unobtrusive Measures •Validity, Reliability, and Triangulation •Caution in Interpreting Data •International Variations in Crime •Trends in Crime •The Nature of Victimization •Costs of Victimization •Theories of Victimization •Caring for the Victim Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 ## Exam 1
Date Topic Required Chapter(s) What’s Due? ## ## ## ## •Theory •Major Theoretical Approaches •Theory-Policy Connection •Positivist Theory •Biological Theories •More Recent Biological Theories •Psychological Theories •Theory-Policy Connection •Anomie Theories •Social Process Theories •Social Control Theories •Developmental and Life Course (DLC) Theories •Theory-Policy Connection •Mainstream Versus Critical Criminology •Critical Criminology •Labeling Theory •Conflict Criminology •Feminist Criminology •New Critical Criminology •Postmodernism •Radical “Marxist” Criminology •Conflict Versus Marxist Criminology •Critiques of Conflict and Radical Criminology •Integrated Theories of Crime •Criminal Typologies •Theoretical Range and Criminological Explanation •Theory-Policy Connection Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 ## Exam 2
Date Topic Required Chapter(s) What’s Due? ## ## ## •History of Violence in the U.S. Aspects •Homicide and Assault Statistics •Patterns and Trends in Violent Crime •Sexual Assault •Robbery •Domestic Violence •Criminal Careers of Violent Offenders •Societal Reaction •Theory and Crime •Media and Violent Crime •Occasional Property Crimes •Conventional Property Crimes •Arson: A Special-Category Offense •Criminal Careers of Occasional and Conventional Property Criminals •Professional Crime •Scams •Big Cons •Boosters •Cannons •Professional Burglars •The Professional Fence •Paper Hangers •Professional Robbers •Professional Arsonists •Professional Auto Theft Rings •Professional Killers •Criminal Careers of Professionals •Societal Reaction •Theory and Crime •White-Collar Crime – The Classic Statement •The Measurement and Cost of Occupational and Corporate Crime Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
## •The History of Corporate, Organizational , and Occupational Crime Regulation •Occupational Crime •Corporate Crime •Criminal Careers of Occupational and Organizational Offenders •Societal Reaction •Theory and Crime •Ideology •Political Crime: A Definition •Legal Aspects •Crimes by Government •Crimes Against Government •Robbery •Crime Careers of Political Criminals •Societal Reaction •Theory and Chapter 12 ## Exam 3
Date Topic Required Chapter(s) What’s Due? ## ## ## •Organized Crime: A Problematic Definition •Sources of Information on Organized Crime •Types of Organized Crime (Generic Definitions) •The Organized Crime Continuum •Street Gangs •International Organized Crime •The Nature of Organized Crime Laundering •Drug Trafficking •Theories of the Nature of Syndicate Crime in the U.S. •The Classic Pattern of Organized Crime •A Brief History of Organized Crime in the U.S. •Criminal Careers of Organized Criminals •Public and Legal Reaction •Investigative Procedures •Theory and Crime •Media and Organized Crime •Broken Windows •Prostitution •Sexual Offenses •Drug Abuse •Special Populations •Societal Reaction •Theory and Crime and Public Order Crime of Cybercrime •Types of Attacks on Computer Systems of Cybercrime •Online Predators •Cyberterrorism •The Future of Crime •Theory and Crime •Media and Crime Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 ## Final Exam