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38 courses with the subject CRIM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

CRIM 700Proseminar in Criminology and Criminal Justice (3
Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 701Criminology and Public Policy ()3

This course covers the policy process as it relates to crime legislation, criminological theory and implications for public policy.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 702Advanced Criminological Theory ()3

This course is an examination of criminological theory for the advanced student. The focus is on critical analysis of both contemporary and historical criminological theories. In order to aid in the development of a critical understanding of theory, beyond understanding the content of central theories, the class focuses on discussion of theory development and testing. In addition, the class focuses on an understanding of the relationship of one theory to another as well as the state of empirical evidence surrounding each theory.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 703Inequality, Crime and Justice ()3

This course examines the linkages between social characteristics and crime. The course concentrates on what we know about the impact of gender, age, race and social class on crime and criminal justice.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 705Multivariate Statistics in Criminological Research (3
Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 710Qualitative Methods in Criminology and Criminal

Justice (3 Credit Hours) The central goal of this graduate seminar is to enable students to create and critique qualitative research designs focused on contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice. A number of qualitative approaches will be covered including field observational research, focused interviews, case studies and content analysis. The seminar explores techniques, strengths and limitations of these varied qualitative methodologies.

Subject
CRIM
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 715Advanced Quantitative Techniques in Criminology &

Criminal Justice (3 Credit Hours) This course explores advanced statistical techniques commonly used in research on crime and justice. The major focus of the course will be hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), a diverse set of techniques that extend standard multivariate analysis to accommodate nested data. Other advanced techniques will also be covered: event history/survival models, time series, etc. l

Subject
CRIM
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 720Advanced Research Methods in Criminology & Criminal

Justice (3 Credit Hours) This course provides students with advanced understanding of issues in criminology/criminal justice research including: history, philosophy, sociology, epistemology, politics and ethics of social science research; methodological questions of reliability, validity, conceptualization, operationalization, scale construction, data collection methodologies, sampling.

Subject
CRIM
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 740Social Structures, Crime and Justice ()3

This course examines the links between social structures and institutions, and justice at the individual, neighborhood, city, state and country levels. Students explore the ways in which structures and institutions are both agents of social control and facilitators or initiators of crime. Emphasis will be placed on theories, methodologies and empirical assessments.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 745Crime and Communities ()3

This course provides a foundation of the most important theories and research relating to residential communities and crime. The casual linkages between features of neighborhoods and social disorder will be explored in the context of criminological theories. Students will emerge with sufficient knowledge to develop a class or design a significant research project.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 750Crimes of the State ()3

This course explores crimes of the state from a sociological and criminological perspective by examining historical and current cases of governmental crime. This will cover the history, theory and method of the field; controls of and constraints on state crime; and cases of state crime.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 755Researching the Criminal Justice System ()3

Students will develop original research projects on the criminal justice system, police, courts and /or corrections. Projects will be designed to culminate in a publishable paper.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 760Life Course Criminology ()3

This course is designed to introduce graduate students to life-course perspectives for understanding crime and deviant behavior. Students discuss the various methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, most commonly found in studies of the life course today.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 795Topics in Criminal Justice ()1-3

Topics vary by semester

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 797Independent Study ()1-3

Supervised independent study arranged with instructor and approved by graduate program director.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 800Proseminar in Criminology and Criminal Justice (3
Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 801Criminology and Public Policy ()3

To familiarize students with the policy process as it relates to crime legislation, criminological theory and implications for public policy.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 802Advanced Criminological Theory ()3

This course is an examination of criminological theory for the advanced student. The focus is on critical analysis of both contemporary and historical criminological theories. In order to aid in the development of a critical understanding of theory, beyond understanding the content of central theories, the class focuses on discussion of theory development and testing. In addition, the class focuses on an understanding of the relationship of one theory to another as well as the state of empirical evidence surrounding each theory.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 803Inequality, Crime and Justice ()3

This course examines the linkages between social characteristics and crime. The course concentrates on what is known about the impact of gender, age, race and social class on crime and criminal justice.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 805Multivariate Statistics in Criminological Research (3
Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 810Qualitative Methods in Criminology and Criminal

Justice (3 Credit Hours) The central goal of this graduate seminar is to enable students to create and critique qualitative research designs focused on contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice. A number of qualitative approaches will be covered including field observational research, focused interviews, case studies and content analysis. The seminar explores techniques, strengths and limitations of these varied qualitative methodologies.

Subject
CRIM
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 811Interviewing and Ethnography ()3

This course focuses on the methodological, practical, and theoretical considerations involved in designing interview-based or ethnographic research studies. Practical in its approach, students will leave this course with the necessary skills, competencies, and instruments/protocols necessary to complete data collection for an interview-based or ethnographic project.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 815Advanced Quantitative Techniques in

CRIM 820 Criminology & Criminal Justice Advanced Research Methods in Criminology & Criminal Justice

Subject
CRIM
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 820Advanced Research Methods in Criminology

& Criminal Justice

Subject
CRIM
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 830Corrections ()3

This course examines issues surrounding jail and prison environments in the U.S. Topics include the philosophy of incarceration, inmate rights, inmate (mal)adaptation, misconduct, inmate and correctional officer safety and well-being, classification, rehabilitative programming, and evidence-based solutions and scholarly opportunities aimed at improving the experience of both inmates and staff.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 840Social Structures, Crime and Justice ()3

This course examines the links between social structures and institutions, and justice at the individual, neighborhood, city, state and country levels. Students explore the ways in which structures and institutions are both agents of social control and facilitators or initiators of crime. Emphasis will be placed on theories, methodologies and empirical assessments.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 845Crime and Communities ()3

This course provides a foundation of the most important theories and research relating to residential communities and crime. The casual linkages between features of neighborhoods and social disorder will be explored in the context of criminological theories. Students will emerge with sufficient knowledge to develop a class or design a significant research project.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 848Queer Communities, Crime, and Victimization (3
Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 850Crimes of the State ()3

This course explores crimes of the state from a sociological and criminological perspective by examining historical and current cases of governmental crime. This course covers the history, theory and method of the field; controls of and constraints on state crime; and cases of state crime.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 855Researching the Criminal Justice System ()3

Students develop original research projects focusing on the criminal justice system, police, courts and/or corrections. Projects are designed to culminate in a publishable paper.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 860Life Course Criminology ()3

This course is designed to introduce graduate students to life-course perspectives for understanding crime and deviant behavior. Students discuss the various methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, most commonly found in studies of the life course today.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 861Gender and Crime ()3

This course provides a systematic introduction to the study of gender and crime. We first explore theories, trends, patterns, and pathways, which include gendered contexts of risk, victimization, and offending. We also explore the role of the state, such as in regulating reproduction or in furthering criminalization and surveillance through institutions such as schools, the crimino-legal system, and carceral settings. Other topics, including the experiences of women in criminal justice occupations, are also discussed.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 890Professional Development and Dissertation
Subject
CRIM
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 895Topics in Criminal Justice ()1-3

Topics vary by semester.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 897Independent Study ()1-3

Supervised study arranged with an instructor and approved by the graduate program director.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 899Dissertation ()1-9

Dissertation hours.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
9
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 998Master's Graduate Credit ()1

This course is a pass/fail course for master's students in their final semester. It may be taken to fulfill the registration requirement necessary for graduation. All master's students are required to be registered for at least one graduate credit hour in the semester of their graduation.

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
1
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu
CRIM 999Doctoral Graduate Credit ()1

This course is a pass/fail course doctoral students may take to maintain active status after successfully passing the candidacy examination. All doctoral students are required to be registered for at least one graduate credit hour every semester until their graduation. Old Dominion University Graduate Catalog 2025-2026 470

Subject
CRIM
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
1
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-graduate
Source
catalog.odu.edu

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