The Criminal Justice Policy minor introduces students to the history, current structure, and processes of the American criminal justice system, including its principal components, the ethical issues surrounding each of those components, and the research that evaluates the impact of the system. It provides an introduction to the perspectives of other social systems and cultures, as well as the contemporary competing models of what a criminal justice system ought to be, both domestic and cross-cultural.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
All of the following Criminal Justice courses:
SOC 320	Theories of Crime and Deviance	3
SOC 321	Introduction to the Criminal Justice System	3
SOC 323	Crime, Victimization and Public Health	3
SOC 423	Law and Society	3
Select six credits from the following:		6
SOC 101	Introduction to Sociology: Self and Society
SOC 170	Social Science and Social Problems
SOC 301	Social and Cultural Theory
SOC 309	The Urban Social System
SOC 312	Research Design for the Social Sciences
SOC 313	Power and Society: Political Sociology in Action
SOC 314	Statistics for the Social Sciences
SOC 316	Qualitative Methods, Ethnography, and Engagement
SOC 317	Global Health: A Biosocial and Justice-Oriented Approach
SOC 318	Gender in American Society
SOC 322	Victim Advocacy Policy and Practice
SOC 341	Race and Justice
SOC 385	Community Internship I, II
SOC 411	Social Inequality and Stratification
SOC 493	Directed Independent Readings
SOC 495	Directed Independent Study
SOC 497	Directed Independent Research
SOC 540	Structural Injustice
SOC 570	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
PLS 320	Judicial Process
PLS 337	Constitutional Law
Total Credits		18