SearchThe Criminal Justice Policy Minor
Program Description: The Criminal Justice Policy minor introduces students to the history, current structure, and processes of the American criminal justice system, including its principal components, the ethical issues surrounding each of those components, and the research that evaluates the impact of the system. It provides an introduction to the perspectives of other social systems and cultures, as well as the contemporary competing models of what a criminal justice system ought to be, both domestic and cross-cultural.
(All of the following):
PLS 320 Judicial Process 3 credits
PLS 337 Constitutional Law 3 credits
SOC 320 Sociology of Deviant Behavior 3 credits
SOC 321 Sociology of the Criminal Justice System 3 credits
SOC 341 American Cultural Minorities 3 credits
SOC 423 Law and Society 3 credits