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Jul 30, 2025
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CRJ 2210 - COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE
credits: 3.0
This course is designed to explore issues related to crime and criminal justice throughout the world. The course will present students with information about the variety of ways that criminal justice systems are organized and implemented around the world. In the United States, criminal justice practitioners often fail to recognize other approaches or points of focus that could improve the decision making process in this country. The social, cultural, and political background of different systems of justice will be introduced and evaluated. Students will identify, analyze, and compare the criminal justice systems in the US with those of other countries. Objectives: A) Explain globalization and its effect on crime and criminal justice; B) Compare and contrast the US criminal justice system (police, courts, corrections) with other nations; C) Identify and distinguish the stages of the criminal process in different countries; D) Analyze crime as an international problem and a global phenomenon. Method of Instruction: Lecture, discussion, and presentations. Method of Evaluation: Exams: (40%); Project: (20%); Article summaries: (30%); Participation: (10%). Meets *GLP Distribution Requirement.
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