Course Description

Criminology is the study of criminal behavior. It can be considered an interdisciplinary science, since theories of criminal behavior can be categorized as psychological , biological, sociological, economic, and political. We will only cover some of these theories in this course , as well as explore some issues with the measurement of crime and the methodological problems of studying crime causation. Our discussion is concerned with the following questions: Who commits crime? Why do people commit crime? Why don't most people commit crime?