GIS 3653CRIME: CROSS-CULTURAL CONSIDERATION

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Not open to students with credit for GSS 2233. This course provides an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural examination of the causes of criminality and its control. It explores historical, cultural, social, economic, political, religious, and psychological factors that contribute to criminal behaviors. It also reviews variations in the formal and informal crime control mechanisms, and suggests more comprehensive and affective approaches to fighting against crime. The USA, Japan, and China, which represent three very different types of societies, are used as examples to discuss the course topics.