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SOCI_O - 249: Crime and Society

SOCI_O 249 (3) Crime and Society

Introduction to crime as a social phenomenon. Changing definitions of crime in relation to social and political change; scope and nature of crime; criminalization; growth of criminology; institutional responses to criminal behaviour by the justice system. [3-0-0] Prerequisite: SOCI 111.

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