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Fall 2015 | SOC 3101 Section 001: Sociological Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System (15129)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 10
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course introduces students to a sociological account of the U.S. criminal justice system. We will critically examine the components, dynamics, and effects of policing, criminal courts, community supervision, jails, and prisons. Throughout the course, we focus on sociological understandings of these processes, with particular attention to ethnic, racial, class, and gender inequalities as well as long-term problems associated with the high rate of criminal justice supervision in the U.S.
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information http://classinfo.umn.edu/?horow035+SOC3101+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- This course will introduce students and focus on the three main components of the American Criminal Justice system: law enforcement, the criminal judicial process and correctional approaches in dealing with offenders. The course is designed to familiarize students with these broad topical areas and to explore the decision-making process and the equality of treatment that takes place within the American Criminal Justice system. The course meets the Liberal Education requirements of Civil Life and Ethics and of the Social Sciences.Courses with this designation are carefully designed to address the components, dynamics, and philosophical underpinnings of criminal justice, through critical framework of Liberal Education.
- Grading:
- 25% Final Exam Other Grading Information: 75% three exams (25% each)
- Exam Format:
- Three multiple choice and short answer exams, and one final take-home short essay exam
- Class Format:
- 70% Lecture
15% Film/Video
10% Discussion
5% Guest Speakers
- Workload:
- 40-50 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Exam(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15129/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 March 2015
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2015 Sociology Classes Taught by Veronica Horowitz