SOC 200 - Criminology

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Provides an introduction to the field of criminology, surveying the social construction of crime, the legal conceptualization of crime, the nature and extent of crime, the theoretical models on the causes of crime, typologies of crime, and the criminal justice response from policing, to trial, to institutionalization. Substantive attention is devoted to the importance of race, gender and social class in the American criminal justice system and the reliance on prisons as the solution to the crime problem. Spring.