The purpose of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to develop their knowledge of criminological issues and approaches in a practical context. The course begins with in-class workplace-related skills training followed by placement in a community- or non-governmental organization working with people in conflict with the law, victims of crime, or in […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4666 This course explores the historical, social, and political processes through which some sexual activities become defined as sufficiently dangerous as to warrant a criminal justice response. At the same time, the course is attentive to popular forms of sexual censure, regulation and/or resistance, thus linking public debates and anxieties to the criminalization […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 3663 This course examines the relationship between gender, crime, and the criminal justice system. Drawing on feminist interdisciplinary scholarship, the course engages with the intersections between gender, race, class and sexuality to critically assess the ways these affect agents of criminal justice and the broader patterns of offending, victimization, and imprisonment. Particular emphasis […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 3660 Crime and Development is an interdisciplinary course that examines the interlinkages between criminality and development in the Global South. It begins with an overview of a variety of theoretical perspectives on the crime-development nexus followed by an application of these theories to understand the impact of social change on crime as well […]
This course concentrates on race and racism as a major source of conflict, particularly in Canadian, British and American societies. The theoretical literature on racism as well as applied models developed to reduce racial conflict will be studied in depth.
Introduction to basic legal concepts: sources of law, legal remedies, common law, administrative law. Planning acts, environmental protection acts and environmental assessment acts. Litigation processes, hearing boards, and their operation. Critical review of environmental legal concepts and their social, economic and environmental effects.
Examines national and international organized crime issues and focuses on links between organized crime and the global economy; the relationship between organized crime and social/political environments; theoretical explanations and the evolution of commodities involved in diverse organized crime markets.
Crosslisted: AP/SOCI 4840 Explores the institution of policing from an organizational, operational and legal perspective, including issues concerning police conduct and misconduct as a means of illuminating questions about the relationships between the public, the law, the media, social control agencies and social change.
This course explores violence experienced by children and violence committed by children. The course explores the ways that children and adults learn, use and experience violence (physical and sexual) in societal settings such as schools, churches, television and war.
This course analyzes theory and research on the incidence and treatment of child, adolescent and adult women who are offenders (e.g. theft, homicide), victims (e.g. sexual and physical assault), and professionals (e.g. police, judges) in the criminal justice system.