SOCIOL 691 - Contemporary Issues in Responding to Crime

3 Credit(s)

Description:
This seminar focuses on responses to crime. As individual citizens and as a community, we respond to crime in a variety of ways. The issues covered in this course may therefore include anything from informal responses-such as fear of crime, the reporting of crime to the police, and the organizing of neighborhood watch groups and crime stopper programs-to formal responses, which include police decisions to arrest or handle informally, bail decisions, issues of sentencing, the use of imprisonment, community corrections, parole and probation, and the death penalty. The course emphasizes the social nature of responses to crime and generally focuses on one or a few of these topics each semester

Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD

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