Unit 8: Crime & Criminal Justice

This chapter examines the types of crime and societal responses to them, the relationship of race, class, and gender to crime, and problems within the criminal justice system, including policing and sentencing of minorities, privatization of prisons, and the questions of deterrence and rehabilitation. It also considers terrorism as international crime.  
 


 

    Read: Chapter Crime & Criminal Justice

    Attend: Crime & Criminal Justice

    Glossary:
    bioterrorism corporate crime crime
    criminology cyberterrorism de facto segregation
    de jure segregation elite crime hate crime
    index crime law organizational crime
    personal crime property crime racial profiling
    terrorism victimless crimes