CRIM 3010: Criminal Violence
Summer 1 2025
Simply put, the course seeks to answer the following four questions:
1. What is criminal violence?
2. What are its causes?
3. What are its effects?
4. What can we do about it?
In doing so, we’ll examine the trends, nature, and patterns of criminal violence. Relying upon sociological and psychological explanations of violent criminal behavior, we will look at various forms of violence, including but not limited to street, gang, sexual, domestic, and gun violence, more generally. Beyond simply discussing these forms of violence, though, we will examine potential prevention and policy police responses. You’ll be encouraged to think both critically and analytically about topics within the criminal justice and criminological fields.
1. What is criminal violence?
2. What are its causes?
3. What are its effects?
4. What can we do about it?
In doing so, we’ll examine the trends, nature, and patterns of criminal violence. Relying upon sociological and psychological explanations of violent criminal behavior, we will look at various forms of violence, including but not limited to street, gang, sexual, domestic, and gun violence, more generally. Beyond simply discussing these forms of violence, though, we will examine potential prevention and policy police responses. You’ll be encouraged to think both critically and analytically about topics within the criminal justice and criminological fields.