Students will complete a comparative case study of crime and justice that brings international research evidence to bear on a specific problem experienced by a country OUTSIDE the US. This is a summary of the whole course and a chance for you display not only what you learned from the class in how to compare across countries but what you are interested in. The goal here is to put the issues experienced by countries into conversation with one another. How would country x handle a certain issue, versus how country y would handle it?
The comparative case study should investigate what there is to know about the problem and response using the global criminological research literature. Compare using the problem in the Problem-Response Brief (or another issue that may better interests you) to the US and how it handles similar issues.
You will be tasked with drawing on all three approaches: an interpretative, descriptive, and explanatory, to provide a complete review of the single issue you are focusing on. The comparative case study should investigate what there is to know about the problem in various places around the world, using experiences from another country to compare and contrast and to formulate suggestions on how to solve the crime problem in the comparative country of choice.
