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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOCIOL 337 - The Police in Society


3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
An examination of police as a system of social control; a survey of major studies of police by sociologists and government commissions. Emphasis placed on police organization, patterns and consequences of police training, historical and cross-cultural perspectives of police systems and studies of police discretion and police-citizen interaction.

Enrollment Requirements:
​Prerequisites: SOCIOL 101  (and SOCIOL 102  for sociology majors)

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