Comparative Law Enforcement

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Sociology Elective Course: This course focuses on comparative law enforcement systems from a sociology and cultural perspective. Sociology is the study of human social interaction and structure in groups. Sociologists examine systematically the ways people behave and arrange themselves in groups. Why people behave and organize the ways they do. By systematically observing and analyzing the group interactions and the group structures, sociologists can describe, explain, and interpret the group behavior patterns, and explain the influences of the social structure on that behavior. Sociology's structure/functional, interaction, and critical theories have been very useful in understanding social issues, and have been very influential in deciding social policy issues: sometimes beneficially, sometimes not so well. Comparative Law enforcement Systems uses functional/structural, deviance and social control, and social interactionist theory to understand various national police, court, and correction systems.