SOC 2087 - Criminology and Criminal Behavior

1. Controlling and preventing crime policing, prosecution, and punishment
2. Criminology and sociological perspective
3. Critical perspectives of global crime trends and global legal issues
4. Future issues for crime prediction and crime reduction in world society
5. Media representation of crime in societies nationally and globally
6. Methodology and measurement: criminology and global perspective
7. Organized crime within traditional families and new international groups
8. Property crime patterns compared cross-nationally
9. Public order crime as defined in communities across the globe
10. Social psychological criminal personality using international comparison
11. Social structure, theoretical explanation of crime and global change
12. Victim patterns, to include gender patterns and crimes against children
13. Violent crime: homicide, assault, and robbery trends in global perspective
14. White collar crimes within global relationships and corporate culture

1. Explain results related to the utilization of behavior analysis and the sociological method used to study criminal deviance globally.
2. Review programs and policies within the criminal justice system.
3. Apply comparative methodology to study concepts of crime and criminal justice policy internationally.
4. Examine assumptions, philosophies, and major concepts in criminological and sociological theories relating to crime and criminal behavior.
5. Demonstrate awareness of ethical issues for global criminal justice research.
6. Analyze the relationship between social policy and social behavior cross-culturally.
7. Apply critical thinking using cross-national analyses of the international nature of crime.
8. Evaluate historical changes in crime trends.

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