2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Jan 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

SOCI 638 - Seminar on Criminology and Deviance


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

A survey of the theoretical, methodological, and substantive issues in the study of crime and deviance. This seminar is designed to provide graduate students with a comprehensive survey of the substance and method of deviance and criminology; theoretical explanations of deviant and criminal behavior; major issues in the control and prevention of deviant and criminal behavior; and public policy issues and the criminal justice system. A general objective of the course is to locate the study of deviance and crime within the general sociological approach to social behavior.