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Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Ability to distinguish the major conceptualizations of crime and their common elements. Students will learn to think critically about the images of crime which they encounter in popular culture and how these images misinform public opinion about crime in Canada.
2. Ability to identify, critically assess, and employ the major data sources such as police-generated data (the UCR), victimization survey data and self-report (offender) data, which inform criminological inquiry to interpret crime and specific crime rates.
3. Acquire a basic understanding of how contemporary sociologists conceptualize the role of the victim in the context of criminal events. Students will also gain a working knowledge and critical appreciation of the major victim-centered accounts in crime reporting.
4. Learn how to think about crime in a domain-specific manner, to think about the practical implications of criminological understanding. Three such social domains are considered: the family and household, leisure settings and school and the workplace.
5. Understanding of the major theoretical approaches to offending behaviour, including more recent and more sophisticated integrated theories and particular attention is devoted to the extent to which these theories proceed from earlier theoretical work.