Advanced Issues in Deviance and Social Control

Undergraduate

examines theoretical and empirical developments in sociological and criminological understandings of and approaches to deviance and control. Drawing on empirical research combined with real-world contexts and examples, we will examine theories within diverse community, social, legal/justice systems more broadly. Emphasis will be placed on how structural, social, cultural, political, economic, and/or environmental factors shape these understandings and the implications for these institutions and systems, and the individuals and groups impacted by them.