Criminal Justice

Introduction to Criminal Justice
Prereq: None. Freq: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Introduces agencies and processes involved in the criminal justice system: law enforcement, the courts, corrections, and juvenile justice. Analyzes the roles and problems within criminal justice agencies in a democratic society.

Criminal Justice Research Methods
Prereq: CRMJ 101. Freq: Fall, Spring.
Methods, philosophy and sources of criminal justice research.

Criminology
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101. Freq: Fall, Spring.
Examines past and current theory and research including crime as a consequence of social, economic, political and personal factors; and critique of approaches to prevention and correction. Cross-listed with SOCA 233.

Juvenile Delinquency/Juvenile Justice
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101. Freq: Fall, Spring.
Covers conceptions of juvenile delinquency; the offender in the juvenile justice system; the philosophy, structure and function of juvenile courts; the philosophy, development, and organization of diversion, detention and treatment of the juvenile offender. Cross-listed with SOCA 234.

Police and Society
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101. Freq: Fall, Spring.
Studies various levels, roles, and functions of law enforcement in America; evaluates the nature and responsibilities of law enforcement including police accountability and civil liability. Examines the racial, ethnic and gender issues in law enforcement. Cross-listed with SOCA 235.

Special Topics in Criminal Justice
Prereq: Consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Selected topics in criminal justice will be examined. General elective only, not upper-level elective.

Family Violence
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101. Freq: Fall, Spring.
Examines the criminal justice response to family violence, which includes child abuse, spousal abuse, elder abuse, and date rape. Explores the prevalence and extent of family violence as well as strategies for treatment and prevention. Cross-listed with SOCA 305.

Criminal Procedure
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Fall, Spring.
This course provides a selective analysis of the constitutional amendments most relevant to criminal justice process. Designed to complement criminal law and criminal court process, it offers a comprehensive explanation of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and 14th Amendments; more commonly known as the criminal justice amendments.

Restorative Justice
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Examines the basic principles of restorative justice and its variants, such as transformative justice, peacemaking criminology, and community justice systems.

Communities, Crime and Place
Prereq:  CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Examines the theoretical and applied relationship between communities, crime and place.  Includes discussions of criminal justice, geographic and sociological theories linking crime to location.  Reviews crime mapping.

Liability Issues in Criminal Justice
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Liability issues in criminal justice focuses on the constitutional and statutory rules governing liability for governmental actions resulting in harm to citizens under civil rights laws.

Organized Crime
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
This course examines the development of organized crime in America and internationally, including the history, development, ethnic links, and impact on society and the economy. International cooperation in addressing the problem of organized crime will be covered.

White Collar Crime
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
This course covers a variety of issues in white collar and corporate crime including the kinds of offenses officially defined in the law as white collar crime. Criminological theories about white collar crime, including controversies over how it is defined, are reviewed.

Law and Social Change
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101. Freq: Occasionally.
Provides a broad theoretical background against which to explore policies in the system of law, in definition and enforcement of the law, and to follow those policies as they have been and how social change affects policies. Cross-listed with SOCA 352.

Criminal Justice/Social Justice
Prereq:  CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor.  Freq:  Occasionally.
This course explores the theory, policy and practice of justice from the criminological, sociological and philosophical perspectives of justice. The relationship between criminal justice and social justice will be examined.

Forensic Evidence
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
This course covers a variety of issues in forensic evidence including the types of scientific evidence frequently encountered in the criminal courts. Particular emphasis on scientific evidence in criminal investigations and a few selected cases involving introduction of scientific evidence, a e reviewed.

Law and Society
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101. Freq: Occasionally.
Explores selected legal rules, principles, and institutions treated from a sociological perspective, including influence of culture and social organization on law; role of law in social change; social aspects of the administration of justice; and social knowledge and law. Cross-listed with SOCA 359.

Correctional Intervention
Prereq: CRMJ 101, or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Reviews the history of correctional treatment in the United States, from doing penance to modern day rehabilitative techniques.  

Community Corrections
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
An overview of major components of community-based methods of correctional supervision with an emphasis on probation and parole. Community supervision will be examined from historical, philosophical, social and legal perspectives.

Corrections
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101. Freq: Fall, Spring.
Analyzes the organization of correctional agencies and the role of corrections in the criminal justice system. Includes review of theories, practices, systems, and treatment methods. Cross-listed with SOCA 363.

Capital Punishment
Prereq:  CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor.  Freq: Occasionally.
An examination of historic and current trends in capital punishment. Considers the literature and philosophical basis of capital punishment, and other issues (e.g., the costs, future trends).  Provides an in-depth examination of capital punishment from a criminal justice policy perspective.

Race, Crime, Law
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101, junior standing. Freq: Fall, Spring.
Explores the intersections of race, crime and law in terms of the historical context, the present-day situation and future directions. Focuses on multiple perspectives from offender to victim to criminal justice practitioner. Cross-listed with SOCA 365.

Women, Crime and Criminal Justice
Prereq:  CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor.  Freq:  Occasionally.
Examines the study of female crime and delinquency.   In addition to women as offenders, this course focuses on women as victims and workers in the criminal justice system.  Cross-listed with WGSS 366.

Latinos(as) and the Law
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or POLS 100 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Introduces and examines experiences Latinos(as) encounter with and within the U.S. criminal justice system, as well as related international and transnational issues. A range of theoretical frameworks will be utilized, including socio-ecological, political, and psychological. Cross-listed with LBST 367/POLS 367.

Victimology
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or SOCA 101. Freq: Occasionally.
Examines the causes and consequences of crime victimization, including the history and recent re-emergence of the study of the victim and types and circumstances of victimization. Addresses victims’ rights and the victims’ rights movement. Cross- listed with SOCA 368.

The Criminal Mind
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor.  Freq: Occasionally.
Criminal behavior will be examined in relation to learning factors, psychopathy, juvenile delinquency, mental disorders, violence and homicide, sexual offenses, economic crimes, drugs and alcohol and the correctional system.

Violence
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
This course introduces students to the study of violence and offers a historically grounded, multidisciplinary approach that integrates perspectives from the social sciences, humanities and the natural and physical sciences, in order to provide a comparative framework within which to understand violence.

Criminal Justice and Mental Health
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Yearly.
Explores historical and cultural contexts relating to individuals with severe and persistent mental conditions within the criminal justice system.

Crime & Human Rights
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Focuses on the interrelationship between crime and human rights. Discusses the Bill of Rights especially the freedom of expression, fundamental fairness and equality. Examines the American criminal justice system via the works of prominent writers, researchers and activists.

Criminal Court Process
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
An analysis of the criminal court process from the formal charging of criminal cases through sentencing. An examination of the manner in which cases move through the criminal court system.

Criminal Law
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Fall, Spring.
An analysis of substantive criminal law. Included are elements of crime; crimes against person, property and public morality; complicity; and inchoate crime.

Media, Crime and Criminal Justice
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Examination of the interrelationship between the mass media, crime and criminal justice.  Some topics covered: media and the social construction of crime; crime and justice in the entertainment and news media; media as a cause of crime; and media-based anti-crime efforts.

Terrorism and Security
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
This course explores and examines the phenomenon of terrorism from a global context. Focusing on a critical understanding of the history and theories of terrorism as well as the societal responses to terrorism, and the civil and human rights implications of such response.

Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Examines theory and methods of comparative criminal justice. Surveys of the procedures and processes employed by other countries to identify, adjudicate and respond to crime and deviant behaviors.

The Criminal Justice Profession
Prereq: CRMJ 101 or consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
This course examines the development of the criminal justice profession – the historical changes, present-day issues and future directions. In addition, this course focuses on various issues such as professional socialization ranging from the macro-occupational structure of the profession to the micro-processes of becoming a criminal justice professional, traditional and nontraditional career paths within criminal justice, promotions, and professional advancement.

Special Topics in Criminal Justice
Prereq: CRMJ 101 and junior standing, or consent of instructor. Freq: Fall, Spring.
Selected topics in criminal justice are offered and the content varies from semester to semester.

Criminal Justice Research Seminar
Prereq: CRMJ 101 and junior standing. Consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
A selected criminal justice research project at the advanced level will be offered to students under faculty supervision. Hands-on community research will be conducted as a class project. Research project will vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit with different projects.

Criminal Justice Internship
Prereq: Junior standing, degree GPA of 2.25, criminal justice major, departmental permission required. Freq: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Field experience designed to further the student’s integration of theory and practice in a professional setting. Potential placements include federal, state, county and municipal criminal justice or administrative law agencies or nonprofit residential treatment facilities. Limited enrollment. (Only 3 credits of the 6 credits can be used to fulfill the criminal justice upper-level elective credit.)

Independent Study
Prereq: Criminal justice major; junior standing, and consent of instructor. Freq: Occasionally.
Provides opportunities for independent work on specific problems in criminal justice not explored in existing curriculum under faculty supervision.