CRJ 3500 Critical Issues in Criminal Justice
Writing-Intensive Course
This course will survey critical contemporary “due process” concerns. It will introduce the student to the discourse and debate in criminal justice scholarship on the polemics of gender discrimination, racial inequality, abrogation of the rights of the accused and the rights of victims, capital punishment, the insanity defense and the merits of incarceration, probation and parole and their alternatives. The student will become familiar with criminal justice texts, journals, periodicals and resources and learn how to access and research these critical issues in criminal justice.
Distribution
Criminal Justice & Legal StudiesOffered
Fall, Spring