2024-2025 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies
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Department Office
Stevenson Hall 2084
(707) 664-2934
www.sonoma.edu/ccjs
Department Chair
Emily K. Asencio
For faculty information, please see Faculty or the CCJS faculty web page.
The Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies major offers a liberal arts curriculum concerned with the changing nature and content of law; the shifting public expectations of criminal justice agencies; the implications of diversity along the lines of race, gender, and class; and the reactions of those agencies to social perceptions and political pressures.
The student is offered an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological, academic approach to the understanding of the mechanisms of social control, resolutions of criminal justice problems, and a knowledge of accepted procedures and alternatives.
This general but all-important background serves as a base for the areas of emphasis that are of interest to the individual student. Fields of interest — such as adult and juvenile probation, law enforcement, judicial administration, public advocacy, prevention and diversion, and correctional services — are studied in detail from several perspectives. Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies majors are prepared to pursue graduate education in justice studies, law, criminology, and other graduate fields.
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