Criminology & Criminal Justice
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This course will introduce students to the phenomena of family (domestic) violence, with a particular focus on intimate partner violence (IPV). Students will explore prevalence rates and predictors of IPV, the consequences of IPV, myths associated with IPV, contrasting theoretical perspectives on IPV, and innovative approaches to prevention and intervention. Students will also be introduced to other forms of family violence, including child abuse, elder abuse, and honour killings.
This course examines the intersection between technological advancements, crime, and criminal justice. Students explore how information and communication technologies are both targeted and used by offenders and criminal justice agencies. Topics covered include: criminological theories, cybercrime trends, hackers, malware, viruses, automated attacks, cyberbullying, online harassment, digital piracy, online extremism, cyberwarfare, online fraud, content-related cybercrimes, computer-related cybercrimes, digital evidence, technology in policing, and technological advancements in justice.
This course introduces students to crime and intelligence analysis in Canada. It will review the conceptual and theoretical foundations of crime and intelligence analysis, as well as basic data collection and assessment methods, practical challenges, and analytical techniques employed by crime and intelligence analysts, including descriptive, spatial, temporal, and relational approaches.
This course provides an overview of the sociological study of hate crime using a variety of perspectives. It begins with an overview of the sociology of prejudice which includes the social psychology and functions of prejudice and the structural and systemic factors that influence the persistence of prejudice. The course will then cover the impact of hate through case study analysis of discrimination as it is manifested in hate crime. Analysis will then move on to a social movements study of organized hate groups in Canadian society with detailed study of their ideology, structure, recruitment strategies, in-group dynamics, and transnational activity. Finally, the course will end with an exploration and evaluation of methods for combating hate and its social manifestations.
This course explores how states, courts, advocates and communities respond to mass atrocity crimes. In this course, we cover international crimes committed right here, in Canada, as well as abroad, and tackle the multitude of ways that they can be addressed, victims and survivors heard, and a more peaceful, just world can be realized.
In this course, students learn social network analysis (SNA) and understand its role within crime and intelligence analysis. Criminological explanations will be discussed from a network perspective, examining how individuals, groups, and events are connected. Students will gain hands-on experience using specialized software to analyze crime-related phenomena through SNA.