Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Define crime, criminality and criminal justice.
- Differentiate between deviance and criminality.
- Explain the major contemporary sources of crime data and how crime is measured.
- Explain how crime data impacts the criminal justice system.
- Identify the major principles of the classical and neoclassical perspectives on crime.
- Identify the major principles of the positivist perspective on crime.
- Describe common theories of crime causation from the physical and biological perspectives.
- Describe common theories of crime causation from the psychological perspectives.
- Identify major theoretical principles associated with a sociological perspective of crime.
- Distinguish between social structure, social process, social conflict, and social control theories of crime.
- Assess policy implications of sociological theories of crime causation.
- Describe the personal impact of victimization and the restorative justice model.
- Describe the nature and types of common property and violent personal crimes.
- Distinguish between motivational factors of the offender in personal versus property crimes.
- Evaluate the correlation between evolving technologies and evolving criminal behaviors.
- Evaluate the role of globalization as it relates to crime control policies.
- Analyze potential future crime policies as it relates to civil liberties and evolving technologies