This book, a contribution to general criminological theory, suggests that the key to why some societies have higher crime rates than others lies in the way different cultures go about the social ...

The foundational courses in these areas include introduction to criminal justice ... and contemporary criminological theory. For example, in the course titled “Problems of Corrections ...

Students must complete 120 hours to graduate: 42 hours from the University’s core curriculum and 42 specific hours in the major, including courses in criminological theory, criminal justice, theories ...

The program challenges and engages students intellectually with the latest in criminological and criminal justice theory, research and practice. The major offers students the opportunity to live what ...

We aim to answer the most timely and challenging legal and criminology questions from an interdisciplinary perspective. Making a difference in the legislation making process and criminal justice Our ...

In core classes, students study criminological theory and research methods. Electives allow them to explore their own interests more closely. In criminological theory courses, students study the ...

A careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, to solving crimes, and eventually helping to predict and prevent them. Classics in Environmental Criminology is ...

though critics of the theory disagreed. Although the “Broken Windows” article is one of the most cited in the history of criminology, Kelling contends that it has often been misapplied.

An introduction to political theory through the thought and texts of some of the most important political theorists. A study of the ideas of some of the major political theorists from the ancient ...

Theory and Practice (2007). The open source R platform for statistical computing and graphics is used throughout in conjunction with the R package np. Recent developments in reproducible research is ...

The Just War theory specifies conditions for judging if it is just to go to war, and conditions for how the war should be fought. Although it was extensively developed by Christian theologians ...

The law of supply and demand is a fundamental concept of economics and a theory popularized by Adam Smith in 1776. The principles of supply and demand are effective in predicting market behavior.