SOC 240 - Criminology

Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course studies human behavior and crime and the development of corrections. Criminology utilizes sociological and cultural approaches while examining crime and the career criminal. This course introduces the causes of delinquency and the modifications of such behavior by corrective institutions and individual therapy. Emphasis is placed on studying individual personality development through inter-family relationships and antisocial aggressive acts from early abnormal family and social situations. This course is cross listed as CRJ 200.