Students in Sociology and Criminology can expect to develop the insights of the sociological perspective as they become familiar with continuing research and theoretical analysis of the social world. They learn how to better understand the structures and patterns upon which everyday life rest, to understand the interplay between individual choices and social constraint, to interpret events from multiple perspectives, and to examine social arrangements critically. They learn how to make a difference in their lives and in the lives of others.
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2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium
The 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium was held on Wednesday, May 8th. Sociology/Criminology students who presented their research were Jennifer Hayward, Monica Heilman, and Julia Richardson. (Richardson and Heilman shown with Jennifer Reich; Hayward shown with Scott Phillips and Paul Colomy.)
Professor Jeffrey Lin studies crime and punishment in the United States. His research, spanning the last decade, has informed significant changes to the New York City juvenile justice system and parole supervision practices in California. Since coming to DU, he has begun working with the state of Colorado to assess the effectiveness of new strategies of supervising offenders in the community. He has also started to study the management of sex offenders, assessing the utility of laws designed to control their continued offending. 