Dec 05, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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CJ 430 - Women, Gender, and Crime


This course is designed to examine the challenges that women face as victims, perpetrators, and professionals within the criminal justice system. In addition, this course will discuss the sources of data collection for women and crime. Also, in this course students will be introduced to feminist criminology and its contributions to the research on women and crime. Lastly, students will learn about female serial killers and what motivated them to commit such tragic crimes and discuss the role that the media plays in how criminals, both male and female, are portrayed. 


Prereq/Corequisites: CJ 101  and CJ 105 
Credits: 3 hours



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