Have you ever wanted to take a college class about prison escapes, riots, and rodeos? I teach Introduction to Corrections and Institutional Corrections at UMass-Lowell as well as courses on criminology, research, and statistics.
At the graduate level I examine the consequences of crime in a seminar on victimology.
CRIM.6300 Victimology
This course examines the study of crime victims and of the patterns, impact, and formal responses to criminal victimization. Particular attention is given to research issues such as measurement of victimization, fear of crime and related measures, and conducting research with victimized populations, as well as discussion of current issues in the field of Victimology. Substantive topics may include theories of victimization, the overlap between victims and offenders, social-psychological and other impacts of victimization on primary and secondary victims, media coverage of victimization, and evaluation of prevention and intervention programs for victims (criminal justice system based programs and others).
CRIM.5910 Research Design
Research design is a graduate-level introduction to methodology as used in criminology/criminal justice. The course surveys the research design enterprise and covers a host of issues on the measurement and collection of data, and other procedures that influence whether a research study will lead the investigator to scientifically rigorous information. This course explains various strategies for devising social science studies, compares the relative benefits of various designs, and identifies the tools necessary to conduct studies that will yield data worthy of analysis and interpretation. This material will be valuable for students who will conduct research and administrators who must evaluate the research of others.
CRIM.3500 Institutional Corrections
This course provides an in-depth examination of the history, function, structure, and operation of American adult and juvenile correctional institutions.
CRIM.1510 Introduction to Corrections
This course provides an overview of the American correction system including the history of corrections, probation, incarceration, community corrections, the prison experience and release.
CRIM.2210 Criminology
The definition and nature of crime, criminal statistics, and theories of crime causation are included. Required of all CJ majors.
CRIM.3900 Research Methods
An introduction to research methods for the criminal justice professional including terminology, standard methodologies, and elementary statistics. Meets Core Curriculum Essential Learning Outcome for Information Literacy (IL).
CRIM.3950 Statistics in Criminal Justice
This course is an extension of concepts learned in 44.390 (Introduction to Criminal Justice Research Methods). Statistics will be utilized as a mathematical language for interpreting the interrelation of social forces impacting criminality and deviance. The course will focus on how various statistics are calculated, but more importantly, the meaning of these figures for criminal justice scholars and practitioners will be discussed.