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Sociology is a perspective for understanding human behavior. The discipline holds that people's actions are largely a response to the conditions and situations in which they live. Human beings make decisions, but they make them under circumstances not of their own choosing. It is our mission to empower students to think critically about societies.

The criminal justice major is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of crime and the operation of social control systems. Students will learn about crime causation, the origins and nature of criminal law, the structure and operation of criminal justice and competing ideologies and philosophies of justice.

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Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice
Villanova University
Saint Augustine Center, Room 204
800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085 
Phone: 610.519.4740 / Fax: 610.519.6319

Thomas M. Arvanites, Ph.D., Department Chair 610.519.4774
Mary Ann Hostler, Secretary for Sociology and Criminal Justice Undergraduate Programs 610.519.4742
Sarah Spencer, Secretary for Criminology, Law & Sociology Graduate Program 610.519.4786
Dana Moss, Research Associate 610.519.7275