Sociology
This research method utilizes observation and systematic analysis of members in their communities.
What is Ethnography?
This term refers to the dramatic growth of imprisonment during the 1970s-1990s as a result of punitive policies.
What is Mass Incarceration?
These are the core values of social work.
What is Human Dignity and Social Justice?
This resource provides academic advising for students in the College of CLASS.
What is CLASS Advising?
This concept examines how the overlap of different aspects of an individual's identity such as age, gender, race, and sexuality can create unique experiences of inequality.
What is Intersectionality?
This scientific study examines the victim’s role in criminal events.
What is Victimology?
This justifies the position that men and women are unequal.
What is Sexism?
This resource offers confidential short term mental health assistance with licensed mental health clinicians/therapists.
What is CAPS?
This perspective focuses on gender inequality and the different ways that society privileges one gender over another?
What is Feminist Theory?
This type of crime refers to financially motivated illegal acts by large businesses or government professionals.
What is White Collar Crime?
This theory is based on the premise that persons act according to a system of rewards or punishments.
What is Exchange?
This resource provides free groceries, produce, and personal care items to students experiencing food or budget insecurity.
What is PolyPantry?
People can create meaning through everyday interactions and symbols based on the concepts of this perspective.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
This theory states that crime happens when there is a motivated offender, a suitable target, and the absence of a capable guardian.
What is Routine Activity Theory?
This is the first of the internationally binging agreements on human rights.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This program supports the academic success of formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students.
What is Project Rebound?
This theorist argued that capitalism is a system that inevitably creates conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
Who is Karl Marx?
These two theorists developed social disorganization theory.
Who is Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay?
This historical figure established Hull House and pioneered community-level social reform.
Who is Jane Addams?
This resource provides confidential support to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking.
What is Survivor Advocacy Services?