CRJU 3538 - Gender, Crime, and Justice (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Critical examination of gender as a significant, yet overlooked, dimension of criminality to include the nature and extent of women as victims, offenders, and workers in the criminal justice system. Causes of crime and victimization, gender disparities in processing/punishing female offenders, treatment of female offenders in the community, responses to female victimization, and ways to reduce both crime and victimization will be examined, while promoting justice by recognizing the important role of gender and the intersection of gender and other social inequalities.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of “C” or better in CRJU 1100.
Repeat Limit: Not Repeatable