SOCI 3800 - Development of Criminal Behavior

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Students will demonstrate the ability to articulate, analyze, and understand how and why criminal typologies are constructed.
2. Students will demonstrate the ability to understand and analyze motivations for today's crime from different perspectives and be exposed to viewpoints other than their own.
3. Students will demonstrate the ability to recognize and describe the various types and levels of crime and criminal behavior.
4. Students will demonstrate the ability to understand major societal, psychological, and developmental forces, events, influences, and ideas that shape an individual's behavior.
5. Students will demonstrate the ability to explain and analyze various factors contributing to crime.

• Module 1: Extent and Measurement of Criminal Behavior
• Module 2: Theories of the Development of Criminal Behavior
• Module 3: Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior
• Module 4: Development of Violent Criminal Behavior
• Module 5: Development of Sexual Criminal Behavior
• Module 6: Development of Economic Criminal Behavior
• Module 7: Development of Public Order Criminal Behavior
• Module 8: Technology and the Development of Criminal Behavior