New Criminal Justice Program Offered
Mar 28th, 2005From Athabasca University, a new program in criminal justice offered at Grant MacEwan College.
"When you start looking at how other cultures deal with their law breakers, you soon discover very different assumptions about the nature of crime and its punishment,&lrquo; said course co-ordinator Dr. Vince Roper. " This is not only important in understanding other cultures; it also makes us question the assumptions underlying our own criminal justice system".
The subject matter expert, author and teacher of this course is Michelle Andrews, chair of the Correctional Services Program at Grant MacEwan College (GMC). Student feedback from this first offering will be used to revise the final phase of course development.
In the course, there will be an emphasis on how social, political and global factors influence the development of criminal justice practice and policy. The course will also focus on the differences in common, civil, socialist and Islamic legal systems, and how different countries across the globe interpret and approach issues such as policing, the court system, corrections, and juvenile justice.
