Undergraduate Program

Course Credit: 4

English Composition is designed to develop students' abilities to think, organize and express their ideas clearly and effectively in writing. This course incorporates reading, research, and critical thinking. Emphasis is placed on the various forms of expository writing such as process, description, narration, comparison analysis, persuasion, and argumentation. A research paper is also required. Numerous in- class writing activities are required in addition to extended essays written outside of class.

Course Credit: 4

The objective is to classify different crime trends and patterns and analyze criminological theories. Topics include the nature of criminology, criminological methods, crime causation, and characteristics of types of crimes and offenders. Topics focused within the course include the historical foundations of crime, theoretical underpinnings of criminality, the development of criminal careers, the various typologies of offenders and victims, and a critical analysis of public policies concerning crime control in society. The police, courts, and corrections and the effects of the criminal justice system in society are also examined. Present nature of crime and corruption in Bangladesh is also introduced in this course.

Course Credit: 4

This course is an introduction to the field of sociology, which is usually described as the study of society or of human social interaction. This course surveys major sociological perspectives, theories, methods, and ideas. We will take a journey in this course from the origins of sociology as a discipline to the formation of current social problems. The class offers an introduction to the basic nature of society and the relationship between society and the individual. This course introduces basic concepts used in sociology to students of sociology so that they can relate and understand social issues of Bangladesh from the sociological perspective. Basic sociological ideas regarding social relations, social interaction, social structure, and social change are examined. Students are introduced to key issues addressed by contemporary sociologists such as class, race, gender, sexuality, religion, globalization, education, healthcare and environment.

Course Credit: 4

This course introduces students sociological, historical, geographical, political, and cultural approaches to the understanding of Bangladesh society through an examination of certain economic, political and cultural phenomenal aspects. It will study several characteristics of Bangladesh society in comparative perspectives.The objectives of the course are: (1) to analyze the process of nation- building within historical, economic, political and cultural contexts, and (2) to develop the ability to critically engage with sociological concepts in the Bangladesh context.

Course Credit: 4

This course provides students with an overview of the Common Law and Bangladesh legal system. It explores the basic concepts of law in society including the different sources of law. The federal, state and county court systems are examined along with judicial interpretation of the law. The course also covers the distinctions between procedural and substantive law, civil versus criminal and a court of equity and a court of law. The roles of paralegals are discussed with an emphasis given to their professional relationships, functions, career opportunities and ethical obligations.

Course Credit: 4

The first purpose of this course is to help the students develop a basic understanding of how the criminal justice system works and how it interacts with various issues regarding crime commission and crime control. The materials will examine how various segments (the legislature, police, courts, corrections, juvenile justice, etc.) react to issues surrounding crime suppression. This perspective will allow us to delve into how policies are intended to work and how they actually implemented in practice. Issues related to criminal justice in Bangladesh are also introduced in the present course.

Course Credit: 4

This course analyses the role of policing in society, with special attention to the historical evolution of the concepts and methods in policing, as well as enquire of the effectiveness of traditional and non- traditional techniques of law enforcement control of crime, disorder, and decay. This course also will evaluate the concepts central to policing from its origins through to the current concepts of community policing and problem-oriented policing. Students will learn how the modern police departments function; understand their structure, and their strategies used in combating crime. Students will also get an insight on how police are hired and also what rights they have as far as bargaining and grievances.

Course Credit: 4

This course will provide an overview of the scientific and applied aspects of the field of criminal behavior. Readings will encompass theory and research from a variety of academic disciplines including psychology, sociology, psychiatry, criminal justice, neuropsychology, genetics and psychophysiology. Particular emphasis will be placed on origins of criminal behavior, aggression, psychopath, crime and mental disorders, homicide, and sexual assault. Applied empirical research on issues important to the legal system will be discussed as well. The final portion of the course will focus on prediction, intervention, and treatment of delinquency and criminal behavior.

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This course aims to enlighten students to understand human behavior in decision making considering the constraints they face and help them to solve economic problems facing in daily life. From methodological point of view, it has two separate parts-Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. In regard to micro economics, the first is to introduce the students with the tools and techniques of Microeconomics and help them understand how economies work. The second objective is to give students some conceptual tools with which to think about and understand the vast range of issues that confront society and the decisions that they make in their everyday life. The objective of macro- economics is to familiarize the students to the basic knowledge about the tools and techniques of Macroeconomics. It informs how any economy performs and expands its scope in macro level according to the demand of society. This part introduces basic concepts and tools used in macroeconomic analysis: the theory, measurement, and determination of national income; business cycles; aggregate supply and aggregate demand; money, banking, and monetary policy; exchange rates and balance of payments accounts; and stabilization policy for unemployment and inflation.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed for students who are interested in pursuing works on the causes of crime and delinquency. This course is designed to provide an up-to-date assessment and critique of major theories of crime causation. As part of this, special attention will be devoted to recent empirical research. The goal will be to scrutinize these studies closely to learn more about the substantive conclusions they suggest about a theory’s accuracy, as well as the methods and approaches they use to shed light on the causes of crime.

Course Credit: 4

This course offers a detailed theoretical and empirical examination of criminal victimization and social responses to victimization, not only from a traditional legal standpoint, but also from a psychological, socio-political and economic perspective.We are especially interested in verifying forms of victimization from interpersonal violence to corporate fraud. Further examination includes intersection of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation in victimization and social responses. This course draws on contemporary victimological theories to current empirical research. Moreover, we tried to explain various rules, law, regulation related to victim and victim support by state and NGO level.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to understand the meaning of crime, methods of controlling them and the essential principles of criminal liability by a study of a range of offences under the Bangladesh Penal Code. Other criminal laws like Nari O SishuNirjatan Daman Ain, Special Power Act will also be discussed.

Course Credit: 4

This course covers the fundamental principles and procedures employed in the investigation of a crime. Emphasis is placed on the investigation of specific crimes, the identification of sources of information and the procedures necessary for the proper handling of evidence. This course is designed to develop a working knowledge of the steps of investigation beginning with the initial security of the crime scene and concluding with the presentation of evidence and proper testimony in court. This course includes lab study designed to reinforce important investigative and forensic skills.

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Students will get knowledge about the core issues of mathematics in this course.

Course Credit: 4

This course will address the various disciplines within the forensic sciences. Specifically, this course will focus on the application of the medical and natural sciences to forensics. The development of the medical examiner, coroner, and crime laboratory systems within the Bangladesh will be discussed as well as the scientific and non-scientific methods used to establish human identity, and the pathological conditions commonly found in forensic casework.

Course Credit: 4

This course will provide an overview of the nature of juvenile delinquency, including its causes and correlates, as well as the current strategies for preventing and controlling its occurrence. Moreover, this course offers an opportunity to examine laws, policies and practices that impact youth in conflict with the law under criminal justice systems. We will explore contemporary issues addressed by attorneys and advocates protecting the rights of youth in these systems through readings, class discussion, in-class role playing exercises, and guest lectures.

Course Credit: 4

This course examines the social context of community and humanistic policing in Bangladesh. This course provides participants with the knowledge and legacy of community policing in the world, as well as in Bangladesh. It also focuses on the development, fundamental elements, and its knock on effect for police operations.

Course Credit: 4

This course is intended to provide students with a survey of selected areas and issues in penology. The course proceeds from a past, present, to future perspective in its effort to communicate a story about American penology. The course will describe and interpret specific penal reform strategies in terms of their historical context, underlying ideas, characteristic practices and cumulative consequences. Moreover, the course will attempt to draw lessons on modern institutions of penology and corrections and their potentials in Bangladesh.

Course Credit: 4

This course serves as an introduction to descriptive and the computer analysis of criminology and criminal justice data. The course content includes basic idea of descriptive statistics (Level of Measurement, Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Dispersion, Skewness, Kurtosis and Moments), sampling and the analysis of continuous and univariate variables. Emphasis is placed on the examination of research problems and issues in the field of criminology and criminal justice. This is primarily a lecture course, with some in-class and out of class lab work

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to provide a systematic introduction to the study of gender in criminology and criminal justice. The course framework and readings emphasize sociological frameworks brought to bear in the study of gender, emphasizing the social structures of gender, social constructions of gender, symbolic meaning systems, and intersections of race, class and gender. We will examine criminological theory, and the impact and nature of gender in crime commission, criminal justice processing, and the employment of women in the criminal justice system.

Course Credit: 4

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the theoretical, analytic, and knowledge of social unrest and movement and violence. Specifically, the student will be introduced to many different areas of linkages between the different paradigms of social unrest and movements with social and structural violence.

Course Credit: 4

The primary purpose and focus of this course will be to critically examine the different viewpoints and unreconciled positions about the current influence of racial and ethnic bias on the treatment of ethnic minority subgroups within Bangladesh and its criminal justice system. Additionally, this course will examine the relationship between stereotypical images of color and images and realities of crime and punishment. This course is developed to provide a critical understanding of the theory and dynamics of identity and ethnic minority status in Bangladesh. Moreover, the additional objectives are to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between "startling ethinic statistics" and the operation of the criminal justice system.

Course Credit: 4

Debates about the role of crime in the media have been among the most sustained and divisive in the field of communications, and they are dependent on a foundation of equally divisive debates about “media influence.” This course will broaden this discussion to consider the culture of crime in relation to conventions of news and entertainment in the mass media, and its larger social and political context. Topics will include competing theories in criminology, crime reporting, the role of place in crime stories, the aesthetics of crime, moral panics and fears, crime and consumer culture, and the social construction of different kinds of crimes and criminals.

Course Credit: 4

The objective of this course is to provide students with an overview of criminal courts and corrections which are fundamental components of the criminal justice system. The course will focus on the etiology, structure, and function of each of these components as well as their pivotal relationship to the criminal justice system. Litigation that has had a major impact on the function of courts and corrections will be examined within the framework of the Bill of Rights and due process issues. The importance and impact that courts and corrections have on society as a whole will also be explored. Some attention will be devoted to philosophical issues, questions, and assumptions which serve as a foundation for the day-to- day operations of courts, sentencing and corrections.

Course Credit: 4

This course will examine the causes, impact, and responses to hate crimes. Students will examine and analyze leading works in this field to gain a broader understanding of the different manifestations of hate crimes including race, gender, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. In addition to exposing students to the problems associated with defining hate crimes, this course will examine some of the social scientific issues with which researchers are confronted as they study this phenomenon. Last, students will explore both criminal justice and legal responses to hate crimes.

Course Credit: 4

Police Organization and Administration examines police organizations and administration in Bangladesh. Discusses in detail current and future trends in law enforcement. Also examines police recruiting, selection, management, leadership, and policy.Moreover, this course is a study of police administration, including the organizational structure, function and theory related to the practice of policy management.

Course Credit: 4

This course is an introduction to social science research methods generally with an emphasis on applying them to the field of criminology. We will explore the nature of scientific inquiry, issues in research methods, and statistical concepts used in quantitative analyses. To accomplish these objectives, we will read published articles and critically assess their design, results, and conclusions. Additionally, we will work with the statistical software package (SPSS) to perform basic data analysis and interpretation. By the end of the course, you should be able to understand various research methods used to study criminology, including how to critically review criminological research, how to use specific statistics, and how to recognize strengths and weaknesses of research designs.

Course Credit: 4

This course serves as an introduction to inferential statistics and the computer analysis of criminology and criminal justice data. Course content includes basic procedures of hypothesis testing, correlation and regression analysis and the analysis of continuous and binary dependent variables. Emphasis is placed on the examination of research problems and issues in the field of criminology and criminal justice. This is primarily a lecture course, with some in-class and out of class lab work.

Course Credit: 4

asked in environmental criminology is why crime occurs where it does. In other words, the course focuses on place-based analysis of crime. This perspective is very different from more traditional crime theories that try to answer the question of why people commit crime. The basic starting point is environmental criminology is places rather than people. The shift in focus from people to places requires a different way of thinking about crime that is supported by a new set of data sources, tools, and techniques to analyze crime. During the course of the semester we will examine a broad set of theories under the rubric of environmental criminology including rational choice perspective; situational crime prevention; routine activity theory; and crime pattern theory. The course will also identify perspectives from related disciplines that informed the development of environmental criminology (e.g., behavioral geography, environmental psychology, and urban sociology).

Course Credit: 4

This course examines the influence of religion on crime from historical, sociological, and criminological perspectives. Students learn how religion operates both as a protection against crime and as a motivation for crime.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to provide an exploration of various methods of crime prevention programs – community crime prevention programs and criminal justice system approaches. The relevant theory and research related to neighborhood efforts at crime prevention, communitypolicing, school crime prevention, and other situational prevention measures will be exploredcritically. This

Course Credit: 4

The goal of this course is to critically examine how consumption society shapes the experience of living in urban spaces, and how the politics of commoditised space and experience shape crime policy. We will consider the nexus of crime, culture, consumption and the aesthetics of the city. In doing so, students are expected to engage with how these theories manifest in the rationalisation processes of imagining the city. In particular, students will explore the Dhaka City and present case studies that reflect an engagement with the course materials.

Course Credit: 4

The Course discusses the different dynamics of crime and punishment from an economic and political approach. It covers also history and theoretical sides of political economiy of crime and punishment

Course Credit: 4

The term financial crime refers to many different forms of illegal activity. The course will examine how financial and white collar crime defined and understood in the law and other disciplines; how it is different and similar to other criminal activity; who perpetrates white collar crime; who are its victims; what are the costs of white collar crime and how are these costs measured; and how is it investigated, prosecuted, punished and deterred. The course will feature infamous and newsworthy financial scandals and white collar cases, some local in nature, as well as current events.

Course Credit: 4

This course provides a general introduction to the field of corrections. By the end of this course, students will be expected to have a firm understanding of the history and field of Bangladesh and American corrections and develop the ability to think critically about the logic and evidence for contemporary correctional policies and programs

Course Credit: 4

This course is mainly design to explain the terrorist activities and their consequences in domestic and international level in contemporary globalized world. Students will learn from the aforementioned course is about definitional issues related to terrorism, history, political economy and nature of terrorism, terrorist organization and incidences, socio-psychological factors of developing terrorism, typologies, theories of war aggression and terrorism. Additionally, they will know about islamization and Christianization process of present world and fundamentalism in relations to Bangladesh. The issues related to terrorism (i.e. globalization and terrorism, media and terrorist images, drugs and terrorism, Bioterrorism and Suicide bombing, terrorism and strategies of international security) will also be discussed from theoretical and practical points of view.

Course Credit: 4

This course is developed to explore the history and characteristics of organized crime including recent scholarly approaches to the conceptualization of organized crime, an exploration of the emergence, activities and structure of mafia groups in an international perspective with particular focus on Italy, Russia and Japan, OC in Canada, transnational OC, critical approaches to ‘organized crime’ and ‘mafia’ and their political uses, varieties of political corruption in Canada and other countries, We will analyze why some structural conditions of the state could make it more vulnerable to organized crime. This course also covers selected substantive and contemporary topics related to transnational organized crimes with a particular focus on Bangladesh.

Course Credit: 4

Drugs have been the focus of massive media attention and political debate for decades -- and have been an issue for public policy for hundreds of years. Vast sums have been spent to address problems and thousands of scholarly and journalistic articles and books have been written about drug use, drug effects, and drug policy. So, this course will provide the student with an overview of the panacea of issues related to licit and illicit recreational drug use in our society. In particular, the association between drugs and crime and issues related to public policy will be explored.

Course Credit: 4

The course explores the development and deployment of surveillance technologies in contemporary society. The social and legal impact of surveillance technologies, in such areas as crime control, privacy, trust, community, democracy, and the war on terror.

Course Credit: 4

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the theoretical, analytic, and technical skills necessary for studying crime in a geographic context. Specifically, the student will be introduced to many different areas concerning the spatial aspects of crime including: social disorganization and ecological theories of crime; crime and place; crime epidemics, displacement and diffusion; journey to crime and spatial aspects of individual crimes. The course will involve a combination of approaches to the subject including readings, hands-on lab exercises using mapping software and independent research projects.

Course Credit: 4

In this course student will have an idea of the perspectives of career in criminal justice and criminology. This course focuses both on practical and theoretical analysis. This course will prepare the students to tackle the challenges of the criminal justice professional fields.

Course Credit: 4

This course is developed mainly to explain the everyday development activities in local and international level and their consequences especially crime in contemporary world. Students will learn from the course is about definitional issues and measurement related to development, development history, political economy and its impacts on Crime, theories of development and their association with crime. Moreover, students will know about the contemporary debates and discussion related to crime and development. Policy related issues for development and crime will also be discussed from theoretical and practical points of view. Besides, students will be able to know how they can contribute to national or international development policies from the perspective of development criminology.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed for students who are interested in pursuing more advanced work on the causes of crime and delinquency. This course is designed to provide an up-to-date assessment and critique of major theories of crime causation. As part of this, special attention will be devoted to recent empirical research. The goal will be to scrutinize these studies closely to learn more about the substantive conclusions they suggest about a theory’s accuracy, as well as the methods and approaches they use to shed light on the causes of crime.

Course Credit: 4

This course explores how a "networked" world has bred new crimes and new responses, and investigates how information and communication technology (ICT) has become a tool, a target, and a place of criminal activity and national security threats, as well as a mechanism of response. This course addresses such questions as how emerging technologies challenge existing laws and criminal procedures; how nation-states regulate criminal conduct across traditional geographic and political boundaries; what reasonable expectations of privacy are in cyberspace; and how control is shifting from traditional mechanisms of law enforcement to new regulatory regimes, including technology.

Course Credit: 4

This course focuses on the increasing importance of crime prevention, detection, and security management. Different forms of crime prevention strategies are discussed in the course. Forms of security management including armed protective services; retail loss prevention; industrial and institutional security; security surveys and risk analysis; and issues related to the manufacture, sale, installation, and the effectiveness of a variety of security system applications will be explored.

Course Credit: 4

The course provides an introduction to basic human rights philosophy, principles, instruments and institutions, and as well an overview of current issues and debates in the field with focus on the problems specific to Bangladesh. This course aims to explore some aspects of the diverse and increasingly complex body of international law of human rights that has both national and international application in area of criminal justice.

Course Credit: 4

Within this course, students are invited to explore critically the complex dimensions and evolving manifestations of crimes against humanity and wide human rights violations in international, historical and contemporary contexts. Particular attention is paid to how such crimes and violations are defined, experienced, understood, denounced and addressed in various political, personal, cultural and socioeconomic. By extension, this course sheds light on the related implications of governance, risk, security, power, sovereignty, equality, justice, freedom, prevention and peace.

Course Credit: 4

Each student will conduct a research project on a topic derived from all the courses taught or an internship in designated institutes in Bangladesh. The topic of the study will be chosen by the student and approved by the Department. Respective student will prepare a research proposal and submit it to the Chairman of the Department. The Chairman of the Department will discuss with the teachers of the Department and assign each student to a particular teacher who will be supervisor of the research project. The student will submit the report/monograph to the Department. Students must have to appear before the examination committee to defend his/her project or monograph which consists of 20 marks. The report will be graded as per university rule.

Course Credit: 4

All the students of the department will appear at a comprehensive exam ad viva voce committee. The question of the exam will be asked on the basis of various themes covered by all the courses taught in the B.Sc. (Hons) level.