Criminology, Law and Society, B.A.
The major in Criminology, Law and Society is designed to provide students with an overview of the American legal system and in-depth focus on the regulation of behavior, the problem of crime, and responses to crime within this system. Students explore these topics through multiple disciplinary perspectives, including anthropological, economic, historical, political, and sociological approaches to the study of law, behavior, and institutions of social control. In addition to learning to apply social science techniques to analyzing social problems, students in this course of study will be especially well-prepared for careers in criminal justice and regulatory agencies, public policy organizations, and direct service provision to people involved with the legal system as well as for pursuing graduate studies in law, sociology, criminology, and criminal justice.
Requirements for the B.A. in Criminology, Law and Society
All students must meet the University Requirements.
All students must meet the School Requirements.
Eleven courses (44 units) as specified below:
A. Complete one lower-division gateway course: | |
CRM/LAW C10 | Fundamentals of Criminology, Law and Society |
B. Select one course from each of the following three groups: | |
(1) The Legal System, Law and Society | |
American Law | |
Introduction to the Comparative Study of Legal Cultures | |
US Legal Thought | |
Sociology of Law | |
Psychology and the Law | |
Theories of Punishment | |
Legal Sanctions and Social Control | |
Constitutional Law | |
Family Law | |
Anthropology of Law | |
Criminal Law | |
The Death Penalty | |
Extreme Punishment | |
Social Media and The Law | |
(2) Crime and Criminology | |
Crime and Public Policy | |
Deviance | |
Criminological Theory | |
Juvenile Delinquency | |
Community Context of Crime | |
Prisons, Punishment, and Corrections | |
Imprisonment and Reentry | |
Homicide and Suicide | |
Police and Change | |
Crime Hotspots | |
Social Control of Delinquency | |
Spatial Criminology | |
Crime Measurement | |
(3) Justice and Inequalities | |
Gender and Social Control | |
Miscarriages of Justice | |
Race, Ethnicity, and Social Control | |
Law and Inequality | |
Hate Crimes | |
Mass Incarceration and Social Inequality in America | |
White-Collar Crime | |
Crimes of the State | |
Immigration and Crime | |
Critical Race Theory | |
Race and Incarceration | |
C. Seven upper-division elective courses (28 units). 1 | |
Select from courses numbered CRM/LAW C100–C191. |
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Courses taken to satisfy requirement B may not also be used to satisfy requirement C.