Recent SemestersFall 2026, Summer 2026, Spring 2026, Summer 2025, Spring 2025Class Size35 studentsCredits3 Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4J · CSU GE Area D0DescriptionPrerequisite: None. This course offers a sociological analysis of crime, criminal behavior, and the criminal justice system. By exploring the concepts of social control and related topics such as social norms, deviance, and social inequality as well the history and social construction of crime and criminality, the course examines the definition of crime and its violations and the laws and methods used to control criminal behavior. The course also explores the measurement of crime and basic theoretical explanations of criminal behavior. Approved for pass/no pass grading option. C-ID SOCI 160 (A/CSU/UC) PC-Area H; CSU-D10; IGETC 4J 