Crime, Criminal Justice & Film

Catalog description

Using film as a medium for culture, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of how cultural norms, values, goals and beliefs pertaining to crime and the criminal justice system are important to the scholarly study of law-making, law-breaking and law-enforcement (i.e., criminology). Films, including documentaries, represent an ideal medium to consider popular as well as scholarly understandings of the causes of crime and the operation of the criminal justice system, as well as how these understandings have changed over time and vary across cultures.