Criminal Justice Program

Course Listings

01:202:201.  INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE (3)

• Societal responses to people and organizations that violate criminal codes; police, courts, juries, prosecutors, defense and correctional agencies, and the standards and methods used to respond to crime and criminal offenders; social forces that affect the evolution of criminal laws.
  

01:202:202.  POLICE (3)

• Pre- or co-requisite: 01:202:201.   The function of police in contemporary society; the problems arising between citizens and police from the enforcement and nonenforcement of laws, from social changes, and from individual and group police attitudes and practices.

01:202:203.  PRISONS AND PRISONERS (3)

• Pre- or co-requisite: 01:202:201.   Origins and methods of revenge, coercive custody, confinement, punishment, rehabilitation, restitution, deterrence, and prisoner education programs examined.   Includes emphasis on current controversies related to jail and prison overcrowding, treatment of violent juveniles and chemically dependent offenders, and AIDS risk assessment of juvenile and adult offenders.

01:202:205.  CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (3)

• Pre- or co-requisite: 01:202:201.   Description and discussion of what is commonly characterized as the "criminal justice process and public policy consideration" through which the substantive criminal law is enforced.

• Pre- or co-requisite: 01:202:201.  Analysis of the concepts and methods underlying major criminal justice endeavors to prevent crimes; examination of research literature concerning the effectiveness of crime prevention policies and strategies; review of policies, programs, and treatment for crime victims and witnesses. 

• Pre- or co-requisite:  01:202:201.  Crimes organized by persons whose economic, political, and privileged positions offer ease and relative impunity in the commission of unusual crimes that are often national and inter-national in scope and that have serious, long-term consequences. 

•  Pre- or co-requisite: 01:202:201.  Principles and methods for screening people, monitoring environments, effective use and care of preventive techniques, preventive response and control, response procedures, legal aspects of security, individual and collective behavior, and developing problems in security such as terrorism and organized vandalism. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Case studies of denial of human rights on an international level and the legal responses, national and international, to correct deprivation and suppression of such rights. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  The effect of organizational structure and administrative procedure on police function; the processes of police recruitment, career advancement, and leadership. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  The major types of community-based correctional alternatives ranging from probation, shock incarceration, parole, work-release, overnight and weekend incarceration, and halfway houses to community-based centers; discussion of correctional laws, personnel development, correctional management, controversies, political pressures, and emerging trends in organization and goals. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Court organization, management and administration, planning, budgeting, coordination, and personnel effectiveness; judicial standards for improving the quality of justice; development and training of non-judicial personnel as court administrators. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Contributions of physical science to crime prevention, detection, and prosecution; significant forensic aspects of chemistry, biology, geology, and physics as applied to prevention planning, contra-band control, preserving evidence, ballistics, optics, sound, and sampling natural materials. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Underlying research concepts, methodologies, and techniques appropriate for application in the main behavioral environments of justice; application of course content to justice agencies, policies, and programs. 

• Prerequisites: 01:202:201, 307.  Advanced research concepts, methodologies, and techniques appropriate for application in the main behavioral environments of justice; application of course content to justice agencies, policies, and programs. 

01:202:309 Criminal Law: Theory and Practice (3)

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  The Model Penal Code and various state statures will be examined to provide foundational understanding of criminal law particularly sentencing procedures and related jurisprudential issues.  Emphasis will be placed on the offense categories of rape and homicide.  Topics will include how guilt is established, justification of punishment and defining criminal conduct.

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Definitions and scope of violent crime in society.  Includes a review of the issues, prevalence, myths, policies, programs, and services aimed at victims of violent crimes.  The expanding role of the courts, police, battered women shelters, victim/witness assistance programs, crisis intervention units, and legislation highlighted. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Analysis of diverse organizations using terror, starvation, torture, and murder for political objectives. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Applies the concept of "crimes against humanity," as developed at the Nuremberg trials, to an analysis of similar events. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Examination of the recent political history of American juvenile justice; the policies, trends, and programs in juvenile justice during the past two decades.  Focus on historical developments, the full range of contemporary alternatives for counseling and treatment, legal issues and functions of juvenile justice agencies, an exploration of future directions, and a reform agenda for the next two decades. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Survey of changing social methods for developing comprehensive short-term and long-term planning documents for criminal justice system components; planning documents explained and justified in oral and written presentations. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Survey of changing social values about sex, changing criminal codes about sex crimes, changing law enforcement policies and procedures in prosecuting sex offenders, and emerging legal doctrines about privacy and sexual rights. 

• Prerequisites: 01:202:201, senior standing, and permission of instructor.  Twentieth-century contributions to the development and application of penology, criminology, and criminal and social justice; study of the main ideas and key events that influenced the ideas and ideals evident in our social institutions. 

• Prerequisites: 01:202:201, 3 credits in criminal justice, senior standing, and permission of instructor.   The internships are one hundred and twenty-hours in a local criminal/administration of justice agency (3 credits).  Involves an intensive learning experience under professional agency supervision, as well as periodic symposiums and study sessions, research, term papers, and oral presentations. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Focuses on the conceptual framework for crisis intervention practice, including crisis theory, crisis concepts, crisis intervention models and strategies, and guidelines for evaluating program outcomes. 

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Explores the relationship between the criminal justice system and racial minorities in the United States.  Seeks to understand some of the economic, political and sociological reasons why racial minorities, particularly African-Americans, are over-represented in the criminal justice system.  Explores normative issues of justice and equity in broader social interactions that influence and are influenced by crime and the criminal process.. 

• Prerequisite: permission of the instructor and the program.  Independent study under the direction of a member of the faculty.

• Prerequisite: 01:202:201.  Focuses on critical issues in criminal justice.  May encompass topics related to law, law enforcement, the courts, corrections, etc.  Specific issues are determined by the instructor.

• 01:014:318 Bigotry, Prejudice, and Racism: Psychological Foundations
• 01:050:324 Wayward Americans
• 01:070:310 Human Aggression
• 01:830:375 Prejudice and Conflict
• 01:830:376 Psychology and African-American Experience
• 01:920:304 Sociology of Deviant Behavior
• 01:920:306 Race Relations
• 01:920:307 Sociology of Mental Illness
• 01:920:361 Sociology of Drug Use
• 01:920:410 Sociology of Alcohol Problems

• 01:014:353 Black Community Law and Social Change
• 01:220:395 Law and Economics
• 01:512:404 Constitutional History from 1865
• 01:790:340 Law and Society
• 01:790:341 Public Administration: American Bureaucracy
• 01:790:404 Politics of Criminal Justice
• 01:836:370 Law and the Latino Community
• 01:920:349 Law and Society

• 01:512:406 Introduction to American Legal History
• 01:730:342 17^th and 18^th c. Social and Political Philosophy
• 01:730:345 Philosophy and the Law
• 01:730:346 Rights, Justice, and Equality
• 01:730:358 Philosophy of Law
• 01:790:373 Legal Philosophy, Rights, and Justice
• 01:790:401 American Constitutional Law
• 01:790:406 Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
• 01:988:307 Women and the Law