Course Overview

SECTION I – CRIMINOLOGY: FOUNDATIONS AND PARADIGMATIC SHIFTS

Module 1: Crime, Deviance, and Criminology as a Mainstream Discipline

Module 2: Criminology and the Public Policy Connection

Module 3: The Measurement of Crime

Module 4: The Social Construction of Crime

SECTION II – THEORIES OF CRIME AND DEVIANCE

Module 5: Classical and Rational Choice Theories

Module 6: Psychology of Crime

Module 7: Social Structure and Crime

Module 8: Social Process and Crime

Module 9: Critical Approaches to Law and Crime

Module 10: Crime Over the Life-Course

SECTION III – CORRELATES OF CRIME

Module 11: Age, Gender, and Crime

Module 12: Families and Crime

Module 13: Mental Illness and Crime

Module 14: Race/Ethnicity and Crime

Module 15: Social Class and Crime