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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CRM 1500 - Rural Crime

Credits: 4
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the topic of rural crime generally and specifically to recent literature within criminology, rural sociology, rural studies, popular cultural studies, and cultural geography that addresses crime and its attendant social problems affecting rural people and places. Specific topics covered will include: loss of economic opportunities in rural regions; violent crime rates in the southern U.S. and misconceptions about the so-called “southern culture of violence”; OxyContin and heroin abuse in rural and small-town U.S.; methamphetamine and stereotypes about “hillbilly heroin”; arson and incendiarism in rural areas; poaching and wildlife crimes; the overlap between rural crimes and environmental crimes, and solutions to the problems plaguing the rural areas of the U.S.