Criminal Justice in Rome and London: Courses
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Course Descriptions
HST 5820 (3) | History of the Italian Mafia (Mandatory)
ISSU1033 (4) | Understanding and Preventing Crime (Mandatory)
Provides students with a broad understanding of issues relating to crime measurement, crime patterns, explanations of criminal behavior, and crime prevention. The module will consider the challenges and processes associated with measuring and analyzing crime and will present some of the key crime trends. Special attention will be devoted to how crime patterns manifest in space and time and how they can be analyzed. Criminological and psychological theories will be compared and the role of the traditional criminal justice system as a means of crime control will be explored.
To complement classroom study students will visit the Old Bailey, City Police Museum and participate in a CSI workshop on forensics.
