Criminology, Law and Society
120 courses · UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026
CRM/LAW C7 Introduction to Criminology, Law and Society
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Introduces characteristics of the U.S. criminal justice system, including responses to crime, components of the system, and current challenges to the system. Examines structure and function of police and courts, criminal procedure, and sentencing and incarceration policies.
CRM/LAW C10 Fundamentals of Criminology, Law and Society
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Introduces three interdisciplinary literatures: criminology, socio-legal studies, and justice studies. Focuses on theoretical and empirical work addressing law making, law breaking, and legal systems.
CRM/LAW H80 The Properties of Property
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Develops an understanding and critique of private property. Draws from interdisciplinary sources to explore the foundations of private property, the institutions that support it over time, and possible alternatives to it.
CRM/LAW C100 Special Topics in Criminology, Law and Society
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Course content varies with interest of the instructor.
CRM/LAW C101 American Law
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Introduction to substantive and procedural law governing private dispute resolution, including common law (tort, property, contracts), lawsuits (civil procedure), and alternative dispute resolution; emphasis on the socio-legal ramifications of private disputes, particularly the modern tort system and tort reform movement.
CRM/LAW C102 Introduction to the Comparative Study of Legal Cultures
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Traces the anthropological and comparative cultural study of law from the nineteenth century to the present; briefly surveys the diversity of recorded legal cultures and critically examines key concepts which have been used to describe and classify them.
CRM/LAW C103 US Legal Thought
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Evolution of legal thought in socio-historical context from 19th century to present; emphasizes the rise and fall of legal classicism and modern socio-legal critiques, including the law and society movement, critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, and critical race studies.
CRM/LAW C104 Sociology of Law
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Examines law creation and law enforcement in their social and political context. Discusses the major theories of law and the modern state, and presents case studies in order to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these theoretical perspectives.
CRM/LAW C105 Psychology and the Law
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Psychological assumptions of the American legal system and mental health aspects of provision of criminal justice services. Civil commitment, insanity defense, competence to stand trial, jury selection, eyewitness identification. Use of police, courts, correctional institutions in prevention of behavior disorder.
CRM/LAW C106 Crime and Public Policy
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Explores nature and dimensions of crime in America and uses and limits of various strategies to control it. Topics include growth of imprisonment, the problem of domestic violence, the death penalty, gun control, and the potential of crime prevention programs.
CRM/LAW C107 Deviance
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Perspectives on deviance and criminality in behavior, institution, community, and myth. The suitability of contemporary theories of deviant behavior.
CRM/LAW C108 Criminological Theory
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Explores the question of crime causation from a number of theoretical perspectives in the social sciences. Schools of thought examined include utilitarianism, positivism, human ecology, social structural approaches, social process (learning) theories, labeling, and radical-critical (political) perspectives.
CRM/LAW C109 Juvenile Delinquency
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Patterns of delinquent behavior, theories that explain behavior, current research aimed at enhancing exploratory power. Attempts to prevent and control delinquency are put in historical perspective. Development of the current juvenile justice system and evolution of modern juvenile law.
CRM/LAW C110 Community Context of Crime
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Examines the social context of high-crime communities, with special emphasis on the problems of poverty, joblessness, economic inequality, and racial discrimination. Assesses debates on the causes of these problems, and on the most effective policies to combat them.
CRM/LAW C111 Theories of Punishment
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Survey of the various schools of thought regarding formal punishment theory. The purposes of legal sanctions are examined, including those of deterrence, rehabilitation, retribution, and incapacitation. Considers problems in realizing formal goals of punishment in practice.
CRM/LAW C112 Legal Sanctions and Social Control
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Examination of criminal sanctions as mechanisms of social control. Includes the nature, function, and organization of courts as sanction generating institutions, and problems associated with punishing white-collar and corporate illegalities.
CRM/LAW C113 Gender and Social Control
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Examines the legal system's use of sex as an organizing characteristic, focusing particularly on sameness and difference feminism, and tracing the evolution of equal treatment of men and women in the areas of constitutional rights, employment, education, and military service.
CRM/LAW C114 Miscarriages of Justice
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Systematically describes, explains, and analyzes the causes and consequences of the wrongful accusation, prosecution, incarceration, and sometimes even execution, of the innocent in the American criminal justice system.
CRM/LAW C115 Prisons, Punishment, and Corrections
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A review of how the U.S. punishes and rehabilitates convicted law violators. The conflicts among the major purposes of sentencing—rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation—are discussed, as well as the effects of different sanctions on public safety, offender rehabilitation, and justice system costs.
CRM/LAW C116 Race, Ethnicity, and Social Control
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Provides a historical and sociological survey of racial and ethnic group relations in contexts of crime control, emphasizing the roles of racial ideology, structural racism, and social movements in shaping these dynamic relations, and their significance to American liberal democracy.
CRM/LAW C117 Imprisonment and Reentry
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Offers an overview of imprisonment and reentry in the contemporary United States. Examines the development of the prison in the United States and explores changes in its composition, structure, and purpose over time.
CRM/LAW C118 Domestic Violence
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General perspectives about domestic violence and theoretical accounts about what causes such behavior.
CRM/LAW C119 Violence in Intimate Relationships
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Responses to various forms of domestic violence, such as intimate partner violence and child abuse. Covers barriers to reporting to the police, and prosecutors and courts. Human services, such as safety planning for victims, treatment programs, and restorative justice approaches.
CRM/LAW C120 Law and Inequality
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Various aspects of the law as related to three specific areas of inequality: immigration and immigrants, race, and gender. The role of law as a tool of social reform and limitations of the legal system historically in resolving inequality issues.
CRM/LAW C121 Crime, Law, and Trauma
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Examines trauma's role in criminal behavior and justice, exploring its impact on victims and offenders, its relationship to specific crimes, and its influence on legal proceedings. Students analyze how trauma shapes criminal justice policies.
CRM/LAW C122 Constitutional Law
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Examines the evolution of civil liberties and individual rights in the United States, focusing on how Constitutional Amendments and U.S. Supreme Court decision-making have shaped the ongoing political and legal struggles over issues such as privacy, abortion, and free speech.
CRM/LAW C123 Family Law
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Examines legal issues surrounding marriage, cohabitation, divorce, child custody and support, adoption, and the rights of parents and children in the family context. The findings of social science research are used to illuminate the legal issues.
CRM/LAW C126 Drugs, Crime, and Social Control
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Implementation of drug crime policy in the U.S.; historical views of U.S. social control and crime policies. Students critically examine drugs and crime research and policy, with attention to causal rigor and how policies interact with and affect socioeconomic conditions.
CRM/LAW C127 Hate Crimes
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Examines the causes, manifestations, and consequences of hate crimes and the larger social context within which they occur. The politics and dynamics of intergroup violence born of bigotry and manifested as discrimination; social policy designed to control bias-motivated violence.
CRM/LAW C128 Environmental Law and Policy
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Environmental law as a combination of traditional legal principles and newly created statutes, rules, and decisions applied to environmental protection. Investigates roles of courts, legislature, executive branch and administrative agencies, and private citizens attempting to regulate environmental quality.
CRM/LAW C129 Critical Policing Studies
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Traces the historical development of policing in the United States from a critical perspective. Introduces contemporary problems and debates in policing, including issues of police use of force, disparate effects of police practices, and alternative approaches to public safety.
CRM/LAW C132 Forensic Science, Law, and Society
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Examines use of "forensic science" to resolve issues arising in criminal cases including crime scene analysis, DNA testing, fingerprints, trace evidence comparisons, profiling, lie detectors, other forensic techniques; evaluation, statistical characterization, and legal admissibility of evidence; regulation of forensic laboratories.
CRM/LAW C135 Mass Incarceration and Social Inequality in America
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Explores the origins and consequences of mass incarceration; extraordinarily high incarceration rates within particular demographic groups above and beyond historical levels in the U.S. Theoretical explanations for, and current policy debates around, mass incarceration are covered.
CRM/LAW C136 Forensic Psychology: Advanced Seminar
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- Prerequisite
- (PSY 9 or COGS 7A or COGS 9C) and PSY 102C and (PSY 161C or CRM/LAW C160). Interview required
Focuses on the psychology of criminal offending, particularly violent behavior. Examines violence, sexual offending, and mental disorder related to crime with regard to clinical assessment and treatment; mental health services within forensic institutions.
CRM/LAW C138 Media Effects on Law and Justice
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Examines theoretical and methodological frameworks necessary for understanding mass media effects. Trains students to analyze and create media content that cover a wide array of law and justice topics, such as criminal trial procedures, coerced confessions, and mass incarceration.
CRM/LAW C139 Police and Change
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Organizational efforts to modify police conduct are addressed by focusing on the history of policing in the United States including training, education, and the contributions of women.
CRM/LAW C140 Surveillance and Society
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Explores the development and deployment of surveillance technologies in contemporary society. The social and legal impact of surveillance technologies, in such areas as crime control, privacy, trust, community, democracy, and the war on terror.
CRM/LAW C141 Anthropology of Law
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Introduces the anthropological study of law through a focus on the foundations of this subfield, its primary methodologies, and several important topics of inquiry, including policing, immigration, and structural inequalities. Provides an international perspective on law and society.
CRM/LAW C142 White-Collar Crime
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Examines criminal activity in business and corporate enterprise, organizations, and the professions. Theories regarding the causes and control of white-collar and corporate crime are covered as well as the numerous definitions of these terms.
CRM/LAW C144 Criminal Law
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Deals specifically with the substantive nature of criminal law and its historical development. Focuses on understanding the development of fundamental doctrinal principles upon which criminal law is based, including mens rea, actus reus, homicide, causation, group criminality, and exculpation.
CRM/LAW C146 Crimes of the State
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Examines the origins, operations, and outcomes of historical and contemporary international justice measures used to address—and potentially adjudicate—crimes of the state including torture, disappearances, genocide, etc.
CRM/LAW C147 Criminal Justice and Public Health
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Examines intersections between criminal justice systems and public health. Through critical analysis of research and policy, students explore how health challenges drive criminal justice involvement, challenges in healthcare delivery within correctional settings, and the health consequences of criminal justice contact.
CRM/LAW C149 Violence in Society
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- Recommended: PSY 9 or PSY 22 or COGS 7A or COGS 9C
Current theory and research on aggression; anger and violence as problems in individual and social functioning. Process and functions of anger examined with regard to normal behavior and psychopathology. The determinants, prevalence, and implications of violence in society are analyzed.
CRM/LAW 151 Language and the Law
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Considers the role of language in legal practice and power. Particular attention is paid to linguistic and discourse analytic research that cover topics such as: trial talk, language crimes, law talk in cross-cultural perspectives, and linguistic evidence.
CRM/LAW C160 Forensic Psychology
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- Recommended: PSY 9 or PSY 21 or PSY 22
Forensic psychology is the interface between clinical psychology and the law. Emphasizes clinically relevant legal topics (insanity defense; competency to stand trial) and includes critical thinking about issues that arise when psychologists are involved in legal proceedings.
CRM/LAW C162 Crime Hotspots
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Criminological theories of local public safety hazards or hotspots are introduced. Spatial statistics are developed for different types of hotspots. Hotspot policing theories are introduced and research on the effectiveness of policing strategies is reviewed.
CRM/LAW C163 Ethics and Politics of Justice
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Theoretical perspective on how ethics and politics relate to criminal justice through an introduction to moral philosophy; consideration of specific theories of punishment and justice; and consideration of practical and empirical illustrations of the intersection of ethics, politics, and justice.
CRM/LAW C164 Social Control of Delinquency
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- Prerequisite
- Recommended: CRM/LAW C109
Assumes familiarity with theories of delinquency, the juvenile justice system, and elements of juvenile law. Explores socio-historical origins and evolution of juvenile justice, current research and policy on delinquency prevention and treatment, and future directions of law, policy, and practice.
CRM/LAW C165 The Death Penalty
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Examines why the U.S. continues to have a death penalty when so many other countries have abandoned it. Arguments for and against the death penalty are covered.
CRM/LAW C166 Spatial Criminology
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Scholars have long noted crime events exhibit a spatial patterning. The principal theoretical perspectives that attempt to explain such a spatial patterning, as well as the research methods used to study crime in spatial context are considered.
CRM/LAW C167 Crime Measurement
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The strengths and weaknesses of three crime measures (police reports, victim surveys, and offender self-reports) are illustrated through analyses of research articles. Common measurement problems are analyzed with a focus on reliability and validity.
CRM/LAW C168 Extreme Punishment
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Explores the history and law of America’s Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, examining the death penalty, long prison sentences, harsh confinement conditions, and other punishments. Students debate practical, legal, and moral arguments for and against these punishments.
CRM/LAW C169 Crime, Violence, and Social Conflict in the Global South
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Crime, violence, and social conflict in the Global South; historical, political, and institutional contexts; state and non-state responses; criminological theory across Latin America, Africa, and Asia; implications for state-building, punishment, and reconciliation.
CRM/LAW C169W Advanced Research Methods
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- SOCECOL 10 and SOCECOL 13. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement
For students planning to conduct senior research projects or apply to graduate school in social research fields. Topics include reviewing literature, preparing a research proposal, protecting human subjects, citing scholarly work, building measures, estimating sample size, interview and presentation skills.
CRM/LAW C174 Immigration and Crime
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Examines immigration and crime in the global context, highlighting immigrants as criminals and victims; immigration and crime control; immigrants’ perceptions of the criminal justice system; public discourse and public perception on immigration and crime; and human rights issues.
CRM/LAW C175 Issues in Policing
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Lectures and readings focus on the history and strategies of policing, measuring the quality of policing, and police misconduct. Strategies for enhancing the quality of policing for controlling misconduct are covered.
CRM/LAW C176 Classics in Crime Cinema
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A multidimensional understanding of crime films and how they shape public thinking about crime and criminals.
CRM/LAW C177 Eyewitness Testimony
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- SOCECOL 10
Faulty eyewitness testimony is a major cause of wrongful convictions. Covers the fast-growing topic of eyewitness testimony and memory for real-world events, both how psychologists study eyewitness capacity, and how the legal system has dealt with eyewitness issues.
CRM/LAW C178 Critical Race Theory
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Introduction to Critical Race Theory and key American cases on racial inequality. Using this literature, examines the possibilities and pitfalls of legal claims of race, gender, and sexuality discrimination in the age of colorblindness.
CRM/LAW C179 Race and Incarceration
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Examines the racial politics of mass incarceration through historical, empirical, theoretical, and legal frameworks. Focuses on race, gender, and sexual differences to develop a critique on policing, incarceration, and other forms of punishment.
CRM/LAW C180 Power, Constructions of Deviance, and Social Control
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Examines the forms and limits of power in the construction of social deviants. Theories of state power are covered to understand the prison system as a contemporary driver of social inequality. The collateral consequences of mass incarceration are discussed.
CRM/LAW C182 Illegal Economics
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How illegal firms function in illegal markets, why individuals participate in these groups and markets, and what federal, state, and local governments do to disrupt organized illegal activity.
CRM/LAW C183 Controversies, Courts, Cultures: The Anthropology of Law
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Assesses the contributions anthropology has made to legal scholarship, reviewing historical and contemporary themes. Considers both comparative questions of law’s norms, structures, and practices around the globe, and the specific insights anthropology offers about contemporary U.S. law.
CRM/LAW C184 Economics of Criminal Justice
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- ECON 122A or ECON 123A
Provides an introduction to the economics of crime literature.
CRM/LAW C186 Social Media and The Law
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Examines legal and policy issues raised by the rise of social media. Surveys how social networking platforms and other emerging technologies impact the right to privacy, public perceptions of judicial systems, and the law generally.
CRM/LAW C189 Careers in Criminology, Law and Society
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Gives students the skills and perspective needed to leverage undergraduate Criminology, Law and Society education in diverse career domains. Students explore different career pathways (social services, law, enforcement, nonprofits, government, graduate study, etc.) and learn to represent themselves professionally.
CRM/LAW C190 Applied Statistics in Social and Behavioral Research
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- SOCECOL 13
Covers statistical techniques used to describe and make generalizations about phenomena represented by data. Hands-on experience in data analysis and interpretation using statistical software (SPSS, STATA) is emphasized. Topics include data visualization, ANOVA, multiple regression, and categorical data analyses.
CRM/LAW C196 Research Seminar in Criminology, Law and Society
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Special topics research seminar. Content varies with interest of instructor. Capstone research opportunity with Criminology, Law and Society faculty members.
CRM/LAW C201 Research Methods
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An introduction to techniques of inductive methodologies, including qualitative interviewing and participant observation, and deductive methodologies, including survey research and experimental and quasi-experimental design. Provides a sound overview of research methodology with tools to pursue specific methods in greater depth.
CRM/LAW C202 Research Methods II
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C201 with a minimum grade of B
Covers qualitative approaches (interview strategies, varieties of ethnography, archival and historical methods, etc.) and quantitative approaches (survey methods, experimental designs, secondary data sets, comparative and international data, etc.), and concludes with mixed-method approaches.
CRM/LAW C203A Qualitative Methods Practicum
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C202 with a minimum grade of B
Designed to deepen students’ familiarity with qualitative research strategies and to guide them through the initial stages of their Second Year Project requirement, such as the development of an original research proposal and/or a research instrument.
CRM/LAW C203B Quantitative Methods Practicum
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C202 with a minimum grade of B
Deepens familiarity with quantitative research and provides a foundation for the second-year paper, e.g., initial models for data analysis and/or a replication study. Students evaluate what assumptions are necessary for credible inference in different evaluation approaches.
CRM/LAW C207 Land-Use Law
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Investigates legal and institutional frameworks for development control. Review of constitutional issues implicated in land-use regulation. Traces development control historically and analyzes contemporary approaches to land-use control which reflect environmental and economic development concerns.
CRM/LAW C210 Introduction to Criminology, Law and Society
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Familiarizes students with the interrelated fields of criminology, law and society studies, and criminal justice studies. Organized around three well-established interdisciplinary literatures: criminology, sociolegal studies, and criminal justice studies.
CRM/LAW C211 Legal Institutions and Society
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Acquaints students with the institutions of U.S. legal system and its operations, as well as with the constitutional framework undergirding this system, and defines the relationship between U.S. citizens and government at a variety of levels.
CRM/LAW C212 Policing
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Introduces the subject of policing. Topics include the management of police organizations, the effectiveness of police patrol strategies, the experiences of women in policing, the recruitment and retention of police officers, and other related topics.
CRM/LAW C213 Crime and Social Deviance
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Examines the major social scientific perspectives on criminal and deviant behavior. Specific deviant and criminal activities are described and explained using established theoretical frameworks.
CRM/LAW C214 Research Methods
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Structures research methodology, the approach to developing and evaluating knowledge of the sciences for use in criminal justice professional activities. Special emphasis on differentiating scientific approaches from pseudo-science.
CRM/LAW C215 Applied Statistics
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Provides a basis for the use of fundamental statistical analysis techniques for solving public policy and management problems through a series of assignments, examinations, and online discussions and demonstrations.
CRM/LAW C216 Public Policy, Crime, and Criminal Justice
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Increases understanding of crime, violence, and the criminal justice system. Assesses the state of knowledge on key policy issues of our time. Discusses the contribution of communities, schools, employment, drugs, guns, and alcohol to crime and violence.
CRM/LAW C217 Leadership
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Introduces concepts, ideas, and theories about leadership and its operation. Explores leadership concepts through interviews with leaders from the community and fellow classmates.
CRM/LAW C218 Social Problems, Law, and Policy
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Capstone course for M.A.S. program in Criminology, Law and Society. Students choose a social problem related to crime, criminal justice, and law; relate the problem to legal and social issues; and devise a plan of action to research the problem.
CRM/LAW C219 Hate Crime
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Examines the causes, manifestations, and consequences of hate crimes, as well as the larger social context within which they occur, are reacted to, and seem to be proliferating.
CRM/LAW C221 Sentencing and Corrections
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Reviews U.S. attempts to punish and rehabilitate convicted law violators. Conflicts among major purposes of sentencing (rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation, and retribution) are discussed, as well as effects of different sanctions on public safety, offender rehabilitation, and justice system costs.
CRM/LAW C222 Ethnography
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Explores the theory and practice of ethnography with a focus on anthropology, the discipline most associated with ethnography. Students are exposed to the theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic work, traditional and innovative practices, and sample ethnographies.
CRM/LAW C228 Criminology: Micro Approaches
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Introduces students to the dominant theories in modern criminology, their theoretical antecedents and extensions, major empirical tests and implications for programs, policy and practice, and focuses on micro-level, individual theories of crime causation. Formerly Criminology, Law and Society C233A.
CRM/LAW C229 Criminology: Macro Approaches
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Introduces students to the dominant theories in modern criminology, their theoretical antecedents and extensions, major empirical tests and implications for programs, policy and practices, and addresses macro-level theories of crime causation. Formerly Criminology, Law and Society C233B.
CRM/LAW C231 Crime and Gender
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Examines the legal, political, social, economic, and policy implications of making gender (primarily) and race (secondarily) the focus in the study of crime, criminal law, and the criminal justice system.
CRM/LAW C234 Anthropology of Law
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- 4
Law has been a key site of anthropological inquiry since the discipline's nineteenth-century origins. Course introduces and critically assesses the contributions anthropology has made to sociolegal lytic trends.
CRM/LAW C238 White-Collar Crime
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Examines the illegal behavior of individuals who commit crimes in the course of their employment. Special attention will be paid to ways in which power and organizational structure affect the behavior of the white-collar offenders.
CRM/LAW C239A Law and Society I
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Provides an introduction to the law and society field from its origins in social scientific, legal, and philosophical scholarship during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early-twentieth centuries. Formerly Criminology, Law, and Society C239.
CRM/LAW C239B Law and Society II
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C239A with a minimum grade of B-
Building on Law and Society I, addresses contemporary issues in the field from mid-twentieth century to the present with emphasis on the degree to which the field's foundational assumptions are being challenged, refined, or confirmed through current research.
CRM/LAW C240A Socio-Legal Workshop
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- 0
Designed to foster intellectual discussion, encourage practice and skill-building in providing feedback, and build substantive knowledge of legal scholarship, this workshop is for both law and doctoral students across campus who are interested in interdisciplinary approaches to studying law.
CRM/LAW C240B Socio-Legal Workshop
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- 0
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C240A with a minimum grade of B-
Designed to foster intellectual discussion, encourage practice and skill-building in providing feedback, and build substantive knowledge of legal scholarship, this workshop is for both law and doctoral students across campus who are interested in interdisciplinary approaches to studying law.
CRM/LAW C240C Socio-Legal Workshop
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C240B with a minimum grade of B
Designed to foster intellectual discussion, encourage practice and skill-building in providing feedback, and build substantive knowledge of legal scholarship, this workshop is for both law and doctoral students across campus who are interested in interdisciplinary approaches to studying law.
CRM/LAW C242 Crime Hotspots
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- 4
Focuses on the criminological theory of hotspots, beginning with the “when, where, and why” questions and ending with the practical policing strategies that have been developed to mitigate hotspot public safety hazards.
CRM/LAW C250 Preventing Errors of Justice
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Examines the types of errors that are made in the U.S. criminal justice system and how we might prevent these errors, including failures to convict guilty offenders as well as wrongful convictions of the innocent.
CRM/LAW C252 Issues in Environmental Law and Policy
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Treatment of legal and policy strategies for promoting environmental protection and deterring environmental degradation within the context of other societal objectives. Topical approach with a focus on problems of special interest to criminologists and to environmental policy specialists.
CRM/LAW C253 Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, and Society
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Introduces students to the world of cybercrime in the age of globally networked digital, and information and communication technologies (ICT). Presents a socio-legal approach to the study of cybercrime, cybersecurity, and how it relates to society.
CRM/LAW C254 Immigration in the US: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Outcomes
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The changing patterns of immigration in the U.S. and the role that immigrants play in our society. In particular, the economic and social outcomes of immigration, as well as the relationship between immigration, crime, and criminal justice policy.
CRM/LAW C255 Public Policy
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Explores different approaches to public policy analysis, the diverse conceptions of the goals and objectives that should be served by policy, and the appropriate role of the policy analyst. Policy consequences are traced to indirect and subtle incentives and disincentives.
CRM/LAW C257 Juvenile Justice and Gangs
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Aims to understand the history and evolution of the juvenile justice system, and introduces the challenges that street and prison gangs pose to the mission and operations of juvenile justice in America.
CRM/LAW C260 Drugs, Crime, and Drug Policy
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Examines psychoactive drugs, the relationship(s) between drugs and crime, and the intended and unintended consequences of policies aimed at drug control, including racial fairness in drug control. Primary focus concerns the U.S.; however, international drug policy is explored for context.
CRM/LAW C260A Race and Justice Studies Proseminar
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A year-long proseminar conducted by a team of instructors specializing in race and justice studies. Conceived as a reading and peer mentor group focusing on intellectual and professional development. Required for students pursuing the Race and Justice Studies emphasis.
CRM/LAW C260B Race and Justice Studies Proseminar
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- 0
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C260A with a minimum grade of B-
A year-long proseminar conducted by a team of instructors specializing in race and justice studies. Conceived as a reading and peer mentor group focusing on intellectual and professional development. Required for students pursuing the Race and Justice Studies emphasis.
CRM/LAW C260C Race and Justice Studies Proseminar
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C260B with a minimum grade of B-
A year-long proseminar conducted by a team of instructors specializing in race and justice studies. Conceived as a reading and peer mentor group focusing on intellectual and professional development. Required for students pursuing the Race and Justice Studies emphasis.
CRM/LAW C261 Race and Justice Studies Writing Seminar
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- 4
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C260C with a minimum grade of B-
A required writing-intensive seminar conducted by an instructor affiliated with the Race and Justice Studies emphasis. Students with manuscripts on relevant topics will read and critique peer manuscripts, and revise manuscripts toward completion of articles, dissertation chapters, and other publications.
CRM/LAW C262 Special Topics in Race and Justice Studies
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- 4
A seminar focused on special issues in race and justice studies.
CRM/LAW C263 Eyewitness Testimony
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- 4
Examines the evidence that shows that faulty eyewitness memory is the major cause of wrongful convictions. Explores what the legal system thinks of eyewitness testimony and how the legal system has dealt with eyewitness issues.
CRM/LAW C265 Memory and the Law
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Examines the controversial topic of repressed memory, or perception and memory of real-world events.
CRM/LAW C266 Psychology and the Law
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Overview of how psychology is applied to the civil and criminal justice systems, how case law shapes this application, and how legal decisions affect the direction of psychological research. Interdisciplinary approach to research in psychology, law, and/or criminology.
CRM/LAW C268 Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice
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Intensive reading and discussion of several recent works that raise critical issues for criminology and criminal justice policy, with a special emphasis on issues of inequality, diversity, and social justice.
CRM/LAW C271 Economics of Criminal Justice
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- 4
Considers empirical research from the economics literature on various topics related to the criminal justice system, such as policing, bail reform, incarceration, or recidivism.
CRM/LAW C275 Special Topics in Criminology, Law and Society
- Units
- 4
Topics covered vary with interests of instructor.
CRM/LAW C280A Professionalization Proseminar
- Units
- 0
Focuses on two areas that are key to scholarly and professional success in graduate school but are rarely discussed in a structured setting: 1) publishing in peer-reviewed academic journals; and 2) preparing for the academic job market.
CRM/LAW C280B Professionalization Proseminar
- Units
- 0
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C280A with a minimum grade of B-
Focuses on two areas that are key to scholarly and professional success in graduate school but are rarely discussed in a structured setting: 1) publishing in peer-reviewed academic journals; and 2) preparing for the academic job market.
CRM/LAW C280C Professionalization Proseminar
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- CRM/LAW C280B with a minimum grade of B-
Focuses on two areas that are key to scholarly and professional success in graduate school but are rarely discussed in a structured setting: 1) publishing in peer-reviewed academic journals; and 2) preparing for the academic job market.
CRM/LAW C296 Doctoral Dissertation Research and Writing
- Units
- 2-12
- Prerequisite
- Advancement to candidacy
Dissertation research with Criminology, Law and Society faculty.
CRM/LAW C298 Directed Study
- Units
- 2-4
Directed study with Criminology, Law and Society faculty.
CRM/LAW C299 Independent Study
- Units
- 2-8
Independent research with Criminology, Law and Society faculty.