• CRIM 1010: Intro Criminal Justice

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  The basic aim of the course is to present an overview of the criminal justice system in the USA: its principles and goals, its organization, its personnel, its policies, and its impacts. We will briefly touch on perspectives of justice and the various theories that attempt to explain crime. We will also address issues relating to race, ethnicity, class, and gender which have been historically neglected. Should you choose a degree in Criminology/Criminal Justice, the courses you can take later will explore each of the major sub-parts of the system (law, police, courts, corrections) in much greater depth and detail.
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• CRIM 2015: Doing Soc and Crim

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  An introduction to basic concepts and tools central to social scientific data analysis, including: basic forms of presentation (e.g., tables, charts, trendlines, scatterplots); basic tools of analysis (e.g., cross-tabulations, correlation, regression, statistical significance); and fundamental concepts of research design (e.g; sampling, causation, independent and dependent variables). This course provides a foundation for subsequent courses throughout the Sociology and Criminology majors. It is organized around online exercises addressing basic issues of sociological and criminological interest and teaches students to explore patterns in data, to conduct analyses, and to interpret findings.
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• CRIM 3111: Research Methods

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  The purpose of this course is to learn how to use scientific methods to investigate crime and criminal justice related issues. In this course, students will learn the basic principles of criminological/criminal justice research, study examples of contemporary criminological/criminal justice research, and develop research skills. Students will learn how to formulate research questions, review criminal justice literature and criminology theory, design research methodology, conduct data analysis, discuss potential theoretical and policy implications from data analysis, and report research findings.
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• CRIM 3220: Juris of Criminal Law

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Examination of the central doctrines of American criminal law focusing on the theories of punishment, responsibility, intentionality, and rationality which underline such doctrines. Special emphasis on how the criminal law draws on, and contributes to, moral theory and the state's role in regulating personal conduct.
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• CRIM 3561: Criminology

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Who are you more likely to be victimized by-a stranger or someone known to you? How realistic are TV crime shows? These and other questions regarding crime, its context, and its causes will be answered in this class. Four major areas of criminology are explored: the history of criminology, theory of crime causation, typologies of crime, and crime prevention efforts. Specifically, students will be introduced to the nature and extent of crime, the criminal justice system, various theories explaining why crime occurs, different types of crimes, and recent efforts to deal with and prevent crime.
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• CRIM 3565: Women and Crime

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Historically, women have been excluded from the criminological discussion. This course examines women's experiences with crime and the criminal justice system. The course covers female offenders and their treatment by the criminal justice system, female victims of crime, and female employees of the agencies of the criminal justice system and their experiences. The goal of the course is to explore all aspects of women and crime and for the students to develop an understanding of these issues and why they are important.
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• CRIM 3568: Sociology of Law

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  A dominant theme among many sociologists, jurists, and philosophers is that a primary function of law is to bring about social change. To this end, sociology of law will be explored through both historic and modern perspectives. Sociological conditions that give rise to major legal developments will be explored through key appellate and supreme courts cases. An additional emphasis of the course will be to investigate what role sociology and other social sciences should play in the process of making new laws and abolishing obsolete ones. Specific topics covered include: the incarceration binge, the treatment of white collar criminals and sex offenders, reproductive freedom, and death row.
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• CRIM 3574: Crime and Inequality

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course provides an overview of the many dimensions of social inequality and how it relates to law, crime, and justice. It is comprised of 4 encompassing modules we will work through on Canvas across the semester. Each reading in this course has been carefully selected and addresses topics related to social stratification and inequality (Module 1) and different correlates of inequality in crime, law, punishment, and/or the justice system (Modules 2-4). Many of these authors and articles are provocative and are included to help you critically analyze the criminal justice system and to help you formulate your own opinions. You are by no means expected to agree with all the articles, but you should be able to explain the authors' points of view and provide evidence as to why you agree or disagree. My hope is that these readings will help us to better understand the context of current events' for example, the widespread protests in response to the homicide of George Floyd in May 2020. What racial- and class- disparities underlie our criminal justice system? How/why do we continue to see racial inequality in the criminal justice system, decades after the Civil Rights Movement?
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• CRIM 3810: Special Topics in Crim

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  No course description available.
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• CRIM 3811: Special Topics in CJ

  1.00 - 4.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
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