It’s about tough guys, shake down artists, and a lot of folks with tattoos! The study of the institutions of social control and their criminalizing tendencies, and the manner in which members of civil society interact with those systems, creating patterns of criminality including both street crimes and crimes of the powerful. Within the Department of Sociology, King’s offers a Minor and Major in Criminology. These modules include courses in administration of criminal justice, sociology of law, deviance and juvenile delinquency among others.
