CCJ1203 - 01 - Crime and Justice

(SS) Social Science

This course will provide an overview and introduction to the criminal justice system in the United States from its beginnings (as we now know it) in the middle of the nineteenth century through the third decade of the twenty-first century. Students will articulate and understand the ways that fairness, respect, dignity, justice, compassion, and duty (among other virtues and aspirations) undergird our system of criminal justice as represented by law enforcement, the judicial system, and prisons, jails, and alternatives to incarceration. Additionally, juvenile crime and institutions, sex offenses, criminological theory, the roles of gender, race, culture, and the media in our understanding of crime, terrorism and cybercrime will be carefully surveyed, examined, and investigated.