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Welcome!
Criminology
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The Department of Criminology offers a four-year program leading to a
bachelor of arts degree in criminology. The program provides students with a
liberal arts education whose focus is the complex relations among crime, law,
and society, and which emphasizes the social sciences. The curriculum is a
rigorous series of courses which provides students with a comprehensive
knowledge of crime and crime control in contemporary, historical, and comparative
perspective. The core of the curriculum is an integrated set of required
courses. These courses are designed as a cumulative set of experiences and
must be taken in sequence. Elective courses enable students to place their
criminological interests in a broader perspective. Many students in the
program are interested in social and human service occupations related to
criminal, juvenile, and social justice. The program also prepares students
for a wide variety of other career options and provides as excellent basis
for graduate study in criminology, other social sciences, and law. The
Department of Criminology is well known for its critical perspectives and
published research on criminological theory, gender, multi-cultural, and
comparative analyses. The faculty have won regional, national, and
international awards for scholarship, teaching innovations, and community
service. In addition, all faculty members have had significant
professional training outside the United States, including Australia, Britain,
Sweden and the former Yugoslavia. While
some students enroll in the major expecting to learn law enforcement skills
and strategies, psychological profiling, forensic investigation, and
approaches to prosecution, this is not what we teach. Our courses
routinely examine social structural foundations of crime, deviance, and
social harm, including the social control institutions, as well as the power
dynamics involved in defining crime, prosecuting crime, and official
sanctions for deviance and those "at risk". We systematically
explore the dynamics of racism, sexism, class inequality, and heterosexism as
they impact perceived realities of "crime". Furthermore, the
faculty tend not to accept at face value the notion that "crime" is
simply about breaking the law. We examine the concept and the broader
discipline of criminology as it relates to our research, teaching, and
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Department of Criminology |
Phone: (207) 780-4105 |