SOC 130 - Culture and Crime

4 Hour(s)
General Education S1

This course examines the American culture and society to understand why and how it perpetuates criminal lifestyles. It illustrates how America’s vision of economy, morality, and race determines how the criminal justice system operates, the policies the criminal justice system follows, and the creation of criminal statistics. In essence, it helps form the notion that crime and criminals are a product of society and culture. This class is a general distribution course and does not count towards the criminal justice major or minor.

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