Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
Crime, Law, and Deviance (Minor)
Program Purpose
To provide students interested in legal, counseling, education, and social services professions, as well as others, an empirically driven & theoretically informed understanding of deviance and crime that considers the role of power dynamics, cultural expectations, and social inequalities in both the definition of deviance as well as the reaction to it.
Learning Outcomes
Differences between Deviance and Crime
Students will identify differences between deviance and crime.
Theories of Deviance
Students will compare and contrast theories of deviance (e.g., social constructionist, functionalist, biological & psychological).