Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
SOC 2800 - Gender, Crime, and Law
This course explores the gendered nature of crime and criminal justice in the United States from a sociological perspective. Students investigate gendered pathways into criminal offending; gendered patterns and behaviors of offending and ceasing offending; gendered patterns and behaviors of victimization; gendered organization, behaviors, and experiences of policing, prosecution, punishment, and incarceration; and gendered work, behaviors, and representation within justice professions. The course employs sociological theories and methodologies that emphasize the social construction of gender, social structure and social inequality, and the intersections between gender, sexualities, race, class, age, and place.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Arch: Connected World
Thematic Arches:
- Society & Justice
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2SS
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to explain the primary concepts that social scientists use to understand gender, crime, and law.
- Students will be able to discuss how theories in sociology, criminology, and sociolegal studies relate to gender, crime, and law.
- Students will be able to discuss how qualitative and quantitative methodologies are used to understand gender, crime, and law.
- Students will be able to describe and discuss gender as a social construction.
- Students will be able to identify and discuss how social structures of gender intersect with social structures of sexuality, race, class, age, and place.
- Students will be able to discuss and critically assess the gendered organization and practice of criminal justice.
- Students will be able to document and explain how offending, desistance, and victimization are gendered behaviors.
- Students will be able to explain and critically analyze issues in gender, crime, and law, using sociological evidence to support their arguments and considering the influence of context and assumptions.
- Students will be able to state a position on issues in gender, crime, and law, recognizing complexities, limitations, and ethical concerns, and drawing logical conclusions and related outcomes.
- Students will be able to critically discuss and evaluate alternatives to current practices of law and criminal justice.
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