2025-2026_College Catalog 
    
    May 19, 2025  
2025-2026_College Catalog

AJS 280 - Criminology


Credits: 3
Lecture: Three lecture.
Deviance and society’s role in defining behavior; theories of criminality and the economic, social, and psychological impact of crime and victimization; relationships between statistics and crime trends.

Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
demonstrate by their scores on written assignments and exams, mastery of the basic business skills necessary to perform the following:

  1. problem solving techniques;
  2. instruction interpretation;
  3. understanding of criminal justice vocabulary;                 
  4. explain the concepts of crime, law, and criminology;                   
  5. explain the theories of crime causation;
  6. describe the nature of economic crimes and how those crimes affect the national interests.   


General Education: Social and Behavioral Sciences