Research Guides: Criminology and Criminal Justice: Getting Started

Terminology

Carceral is a term related to incarceration. Carceral studies includes work on mass incarceration and confinement, prison practices, policing, and criminal justice broadly defined.

Criminal justice is a system of rules and practices intended to enforce social norms, protect society and individuals from behavior deemed illegal, and to punish those who violate these laws.

Criminology is the study of crime. It is interdisciplinary and includes social and individual reasons for criminal behavior and how such behavior is defined and controlled.

Campus Programs

Carceral State Project
The Carceral State Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings impacted communities and advocacy organizations together with researchers, writers, and artists from the University of Michigan to address the current crisis as well as collateral consequences of mass incarceration, policing, and immigration detention in the State of Michigan, and to work towards more just responses to the safety concerns and social needs of this region." [from the website]
Law, Justice, and Social Change Minor
The Law, Justice, and Social Change Minor is a stand-alone academic minor in the U-M College of Literature, Science and the Arts. The Department of Sociology also offers an LJSC subplan for sociology majors.
Crime and Justice
The U-M Residential College offers a minor in Crime and Justice that is open to both RC and LSA undergraduates.

National Campus Safety Resources

The Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool
The Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool is created by the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education.
Campus Security
Includes data on campus crime.

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Contacts

Terminology

Campus Programs

National Campus Safety Resources

Other Research Guides of Interest