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PPOL-521 CRIME POLICY
Fall only
Professor Jocelyn Fontaine
This course examines the causes of and possible remedies to America's crime problem. The class will consider classic explanations of crime and criminal behavior drawn from economics and sociology, and use these theoretical explanations as a framework for evaluating contemporary research in law and policy. A main focus of the course will be to consider whether crime policy is responsive to empirical evidence. Have changes in crime control strategies over the last 25 years - such as the war on drugs, expansion of corrections, and a growing interest in rehabilitation - occurred because of, or in spite of, related research on victimization, policing, incarceration, sentencing, capital punishment, substance abuse, guns, criminal careers and inequality?
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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