SSCI 5082G - Crime and Technology

This course is designed to survey major issues in criminology related to technology, including but not limited to cybercrime, surveillance and the role of technology in criminal justice. Students will review foundational work in these areas, including theoretical works related to the definition and past/current understanding of each, emergent scholarship in these areas (both empirical and theoretical) and research framing and understanding of the scope and extent of technologically related crime and surrounding responses by the criminal justice system and/or private and public sectors.
Credit hours: 3