The Criminal Justice 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.
Code | Title | Credits |
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All of the following Criminal Justice courses: | ||
SOC 320 | Theories of Crime and Deviance | 3 |
CRJ 321 | Introduction to the Criminal Justice System | 3 |
CRJ 323 | Crime, Victimization and Public Health | 3 |
CRJ 423 | Law and Society | 3 |
Select six credits from the following: | 6 | |
Introduction to Sociology: Self and Society | ||
Social Science and Social Problems | ||
Social and Cultural Theory | ||
The Urban Social System | ||
Research Design for the Social Sciences | ||
Power and Society: Political Sociology in Action | ||
Statistics for the Social Sciences | ||
Qualitative Methods, Ethnography, and Engagement | ||
Criminal Justice Administration and Ethics | ||
Gender in American Society | ||
Victim Advocacy Policy and Practice | ||
Race and Justice | ||
Community Internship | ||
Social Inequality and Stratification | ||
Directed Independent Readings | ||
Directed Independent Study | ||
Directed Independent Research | ||
Structural Injustice | ||
Geographic Info System | ||
Judicial Process | ||
Constitutional Law | ||
Total Credits | 18 |