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CJS 402 Court Structures and Functions
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The critical and pivotal role of the courts in the criminal justice process. Major structures and basic legal concepts that underlie the criminal courts. The dynamics of case process, management, and bargaining as well as the role of key personnel in the court structure. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 410 Criminal Law
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Elements and proof in crimes of frequent concern in law enforcement with reference to principal rules of criminal liability. The importance of criminal law at the enforcement level considered from crime prevention to courtroom appearance. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 420 Evidence and Criminal Procedure
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Rules of evidence of particular importance at the operational level in law enforcement and with criminal procedure in important areas such as arrest, force, and seizure. Supreme Court decisions affecting law enforcement. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 452 Organized Crime
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A study of the impact of organized crime as a social and economic problem with special attention to the role of the criminal justice system as an ameliorative agent. History, nature, and extent of various types of organized crime in the United States and abroad. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 456 Managing Aggressive Behavior
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Anticipating, responding to, and preventing or controlling various forms of aggressive behavior in the workplace, the home, and everyday life. Appropriate responses are examined from law enforcement, human services, and private security perspectives. This course includes a hands-on component in which self-defense techniques are demonstrated. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 482 Terrorism
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Examines the subject of terrorism and treats the phenomenon as criminal activity. Special attention to the following topics: 1) historical and social antecedents to today’s problems; 2) profiles and motivations of contemporary terrorists; 3) characteristics of active terrorist groups; 4) the vulnerability of western nations to the techniques and technology of terrorism; 5) the role of the media; 6) the impact of terrorism on non governmental sectors of society; and 7) acceptable counter-terrorist policies and practices. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 483 Family Violence: Spouse and Child Abuse
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Current knowledge about family violence from the areas of psychology, sociology, social work, and law enforcement. Understanding the motivations underlying the behavior of the various actors involved: perpetrator, victim, social control agent, and helping professional. The connection between theory and treatment. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 484 Psychology, Psychiatry, and Law
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Various interfaces between psychological theory and practice and the criminal justice system. The insanity defense, predictions of dangerousness, handling "victimless" crimes, psychological screening of police officers and other criminal justice system personnel, and the development of a moral-ethical sense. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 485 Critical Issues in Criminal Justice
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Selected topics pertaining to crime and justice in America. Sex crimes and sex offenders, women in the criminal justice system, family violence, and victimology. Course may be taken twice under separate topic headings. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 487 Victimology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The process of becoming a victim of crime. Psychological stages through which victims pass. Crisis intervention with crime victims as well as means of prevention. Specific crime patterns and implications for victims. Consideration of victim response to such events as natural disasters and loss of loved ones. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 490 Internship in Criminal Justice Studies
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
(The course must be arranged in the semester prior to election and requires the approval of the student’s advisor.) A supervised work experience in criminal justice under the direction of a faculty advisor and a field supervisor. The experience consists of working in an institutional setting at varying positions to become more familiar with the criminal justice field. Students must spend a minimum of 90 hours per semester in this capacity, maintain a log of their work activity, and meet weekly with their advisor. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 492 Senior Seminar: Theory and Research in Criminal Justice
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A review of major trends, problems, and current thought regarding the future of justice in America. A review of major theories as well as an introduction to scientific research. Philosophy of research. Common statistical practices, sampling, and data interpretation. The relationship of theory to research and of research to theory. Preparation of a senior paper. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 495 Criminalistics (Forensic Science)
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A general course in forensic operations and techniques. Firearms identification, ballistics, and glass examinations. Physical impressions, document and ink studies, and the science of fingerprints applied to crime investigations. Forensic photography and specimen identification. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 500 Research Methodology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The basic methods of empirical research design. The formulation and testing of hypotheses. Sampling, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 505 Interviewing Methods (SEC 505)
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Approaches to interviewing in human services with special attention to legal and practical issues in law enforcement, corrections, and security. Analysis of non-verbal behavior and techniques for assessing credibility. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 540 Criminal Justice Process and Criminal Law
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The philosophical and historical development of present law enforcement systems. Criminal law as an agency of formal social control and as an integrative mechanism. Court functions and procedures, adversarial and parental. Administrative and technical problems. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 541 Trends in Constitutional Law
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
An analysis of recent appellate and U.S. Supreme Court decisions as they bear on criminal justice practice. The impact of current issues on present and future legal considerations. The impact of social and legal literature on judicial consideration. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 550 Institutional Corrections
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Administration of correctional agencies, types of facilities, treatment methods, and offender typologies and the problems of prisonization. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 555 Deviance and Social Control
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Theories pertaining to selected specific areas: crime, substance abuse, suicide, and sexual deviance. Response of social control agencies to deviance. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 559 Community Relations and Criminal Justice
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Review of selected problem areas. Offender and citizen reactions to policies and personnel of community agencies (police, courts, prisons) and correctional agents. Role of community treatment centers and future developments as to the function of police and correctional agents with regard to community response. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 570 Socialization and Social Control
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The ways in which members of any system become committed to group values and norms and the methods designed to regulate general community behavior. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 579 Comparative Criminal Justice
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Contrasts and similarities between the American and European systems with an explanation of the merits and limitations of each. Cross-cultural justice. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 580 Theory of Law Enforcement
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
A comparative analysis of theories of law enforcement as they have been applied in terms of time and place. Historical trends and current applications in selected areas of the world. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 585 Seminar in Criminology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
(Prerequisite: Basic course work in the field of criminology.)
An opportunity to analyze and appraise major issues in criminology. The relative explanatory powers of biological, psychological, and sociological factors, as incorporated in various criminological theories, are examined. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 586 Law and Corrections Practice
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Systems of laws as they relate to various categories of offenders. Concepts of justice, punishment, and responsibility. Role of corrections in the court processes. Significant court decisions as they bear on the rights of the offender and the investigatory and supervisory processes. Pre-sentence reports and legal restrictions. Role of the correctional agent in the adversary process. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 587 Criminal Justice Policy Formulation
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Seminar for advanced students in which students conduct original research on administrative/policy making aspects of a criminal justice area (law enforcement, judiciary corrections) and present their findings in a written report. The elements of appropriate policy and the legal and political ramifications of policy implementation and change. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 593 Directed Studies
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An opportunity to pursue study in a particular area of interest not formally covered by courses currently available. Restricted to students who have completed a major portion of their course work. By arrangement only. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CJS 597 Justice Seminar
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This is a "terminal seminar" course for graduate students in criminal justice and security administration. The course reviews the major concepts and theories of criminal justice from the perspective of social justice. Certain central questions provide focus for the course: To what extent is the criminal justice system responding equitably to the requirements of society? Regarding the issue of legitimacy, what requirements that must be met for a legal system to command the moral allegiance of its citizenry? What would an "ideal" criminal justice look like? How might Rawls' "veil of ignorance" and other conceptions of justice be used to design an ideal system? | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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CJS 598 Research Practice Seminar
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CJS 500
permission of director required.
Specialized research in a specific area. Student works independently or in a group under the close direction of a faculty member. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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