SOCI 227 - Deviance and Social Control

(3 credits) Cross Listed with CRJU 227
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 or CRJU 101 or consent of instructor
 See Addenda to the 2024/2025 Catalog for changes to this course effective Spring 2025

This course examines deviant acts with an eye toward understanding social order and change. Topics covered include the types and causes of deviance, the social conditions and elements of deviant acts, and the effects of deviance and mechanisms for prevention, punishing and rehabilitating deviant individuals and groups. Offered fall, spring, summer. (Formerly SOCI/CRJU 327)