CRJ 360 Race, Ethncity, Crime, and Justice

3 Credit(s) DPDS

This course examines current issues in race, ethnicity, and the criminal justice system in a flexible forum of discussions, including the relationship between race and ethnicity and all components of the criminal justice system. Special emphasis will be given to the evaluation of crime statistics, trends, and issues in measuring the relationship between race, ethnicity, and crime as well as the experiences of various racial and ethnic groups with American laws, law enforcement, criminal courts, the correctional system, and the death penalty. Three lecture hours per week.