This course offers an overview and sociological analysis of the Ugandan Criminal Justice system. Crime control policy, police, courts, corrections/prisons, offenders, and victims as well as decision-making criteria used at various stages in the system (e.g. seriousness of offense, and unacceptable criteria e.g. poverty, class, gender, etc.). Responses to crime and the characteristics of the criminal justice system, its components and current challenges including various approaches to policing, victim assistance, sentencing and incarceration/imprisonment alternatives and the increasing role of communities and technologies in policy, protection, policing and corrections.
