CJ 6302 - Comparative Criminal Justice

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 3
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or departmental approval.
This course provides an overview of selected international criminal justice systems with a primary emphasis on the social, political, historical, cultural, and religious influences on the development of such systems. The course will examine crime rates, forms of criminality, police, courts and correctional systems to compare and contrast criminal justice and criminology in other countries to the United States.