SSCI 5500G - Reading Course

Students are required to do a series of readings in a particular area of criminology and write an advanced-level literature review. Students are required to summarize relevant literature on a topic around a clearly stated research question of some significance. They are required to provide a critical appraisal of the strengths, limitations, gaps in knowledge, inconsistencies and conflicting viewpoints associated with the literature and to write their own interpretation of the contribution and implications of the literature to the research question at hand.
Credit hours: 3