LCJS 1100 - CRIMINOLOGY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Enrollment Alert: Effective Spring 2022, this course replaces ADMJ 0600 INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY. If you have previously taken ADMJ 0600, contact your advisor about course repeat limitations/rules. This course provides an overview of the study of the causes and social responses to crime. It examines legal definitions and elements of crime; surveys major categories of crime, i.e., Predatory and non-predatory acts; reviews major measures of crime; identifies major correlates and theories of crime; differentiates types of offenders and evaluates the working of the criminal justice system.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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