Criminal Justice
CRIM 7203: Theories of Criminal Justice Process
Seminar - 4 credits
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- Studies the theoretical and empirical foundations for fundamental criminal justice process theories.
- Organized around key theoretical frameworks that explain the activities and outputs of the criminal justice system.
- Identifies key elements of criminal justice process theories and examines how these components are defined, operationalized, and tested empirically.
- Offers students an opportunity to develop mastery of the administration of justice process by reviewing research critiquing justice system strategies, functioning, and effects.
- Students identify and consider changes in institutional responses to crime and justice issues that have occurred over time and across cultural contexts.
- Traces the role of systemic racism and intersecting dimensions of oppression in the historical development of and current policies and practices in the criminal justice system.
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