Justice & Society: An Introduction

Justice & Society: An Introduction introduces students to the study of crime and justice amd includes theories and methodologies from a variety of social science disciplines. In addition, it provides an introduction to the study of social control and to the origins of crime at individual, structural, and cultural levels.

Justice & Society: An Introduction helps students:

• describe the ideological, political and philosophical assumptions that support the criminal justice system (knowledge).
• identify, compare and contrast the components of the criminal justice system and their interrelationship to the prevention, detection, and control of crime (knowledge & analysis).
• describe criminal law, procedures, systems, theories and agents across various historical, social, and political contexts (knowledge).
• utilize evidence written skills as outlined in course requirements (application).
• use and identify common CJ-related databases or academic resources (knowledge).