ICJ 700 International Crime and Justice Theory

International Crime and Justice examines the multicultural/cross-cultural nature and etiology of international and transnational crimes, including genocide, war crimes, terrorism, money laundering, drug and human trafficking and weapons dealing. The course will review various perspectives, approaches, and theories of crime and criminality that assist in understanding the development of new forms of crimes worldwide and in developing international crime prevention policies. A critical examination will be made of various methodologies in collecting empirical data, and the problems of cross-cultural research will be discussed. The course will commence with grounding in theories developed in the cultural context of the United States, and expand to embrace theories from and applying to other regions of the world.