Course Detail
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Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Course Attribute:
University Connected Learning
Description
Focuses on the cutting-edge issues confronting criminal justice. Course includes a systematic introduction of criminal justice systems, their structure, relationship to each other, and theories of delinquency and criminality emphasizing their current applications. Seminar discusses the increase in violent offending, proliferation of gangs, overrepresentation of minorities, and the use of incarceration as treatment/punishment.