Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008
UDM Academic PoliciesCourse DescriptionsList of All ProgramsFaculty


CJS 130 Introduction to Criminal Justice
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


A study of the agencies and processes involved in the Criminal Justice System - legislature, the police, the prosecutor, the public defender, the courts and corrections; an analysis of the roles and problems of law enforcement in a democratic society, with an emphasis upon inter-component relations and checks and balances; selected problems of administration in the Criminal Justice System, with an emphasis on Social Justice as a guide to policy formation.
30000

CJS 131 Introduction to Corrections
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


The history, development, and philosophy of corrections in the United States. An examination of the function and operation of correctional institutions, traditional probation and parole, and also intermediate sanctions. The relevance of the medical model to correctional programming, and a comparison with other models of punishment, including just deserts, justice, and reintegration models.
30000

CJS 250 Introduction to Police Administration
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An examination of the organization and administration of police departments of varying sizes. Consideration of principles of management. Evaluation of line, staff and auxiliary functions. Policy problems at the managerial level, including labor relations, internal investigations and policy formulation.
30000

CJS 395 Criminal Investigation
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Fundamentals of criminal investigation, including techniques of surveillance, crime scene search and recording, collection and preservation of physical evidence, scientific aids, modus operandi, sources of information such as interviewing and interrogation, follow-up and case preparation.
30000

CJS 398 Technology and Criminal Justice
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Technological advances in the field of the Criminal Justice are displayed, discussed, and utilized as tools of change. Technology is also used as a mechanism to enhance an analytic understanding of the spatial patterns of crime, criminal awareness spaces, criminal mobility and the development of cognitive maps. The use of Geographical Information Systems to profile serial criminals and to map crime will also be a focal point.
30000

CJS 399 Narcotics and the Police
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


This course examines the significant influence that illegal drugs have had on the criminal justice system and on society as a whole. The history of the drug phenomenon will be laid out and future models will be discussed. Law enforcement roles and strategies will be detailed and critiqued. Constitutional rights and social justice will be weighed against the needs of the system.
30000

CJS 401 Correctional Counseling
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


The application of traditional and special counseling techniques to the adjudicated offender. Problems of the unmotivated or coerced client. The relevance of the medical model to correctional systems. Special problems in group process with offenders.
30000

CJS 402 Court Structures and Functions
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 405 Directed Studies
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:

Permission of the instructor.


Student works independently on a field problem or a research problem in consultation with an instructor.
1-30000

CJS 410 Criminal Law
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 415 Juvenile Justice
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An investigation into the history and nature of juvenile courts. Etiology of juvenile delinquency and status offenses. Diversion programs and other attempts at delinquency prevention. Court decisions and emergent policy issues (e.g., "zero tolerance") pertaining to juvenile justice will be explored.
30000

CJS 416 Gangs and Deviant Social Groups
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


This course explores the history of street gangs and other deviant social groups primarily in America. A wide array of criminological theories applicable to gang formation, expansion, and intervention will be reviewed. The influence of the family, media, peers, socioeconomic status, drugs, neighborhood affiliation, public housing, and schools on gang activity will be presented. An overview of the legal framework in which police and gangs interact along with the roles of the police, prosecutor, the juvenile court, and correctional personnel (e.g., security threat groups) will be presented. Course discussion will include significant policy implications due to gang violence. Students will obtain a working knowledge of gangs and develop skills at identification of at-risk children and learn methods for intervention.
30000

CJS 419 Literature and Crime
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


This course offers an examination of the influence that the written portrayal of crime has on both the individual's and society's view of the criminal and criminal acts. Excerpts from historical and contemporary literature are discussed and debated.
30000

CJS 420 Evidence and Criminal Procedure
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 450 Institutional Corrections
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Administration of correctional facilities. Types of correctional facilities, including special problems and opportunities at various custody levels. An examination of the concept of "prisonization," including a comparison of importation and deprivation models.
30000

CJS 451 Criminology and Penology
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


The nature of crime, crime trends, causes of criminal behavior; philosophy of punishment, legal procedures, operation of correctional institutions; probation and parole, and crime prevention.
30000

CJS 452 Organized Crime
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 454 Sociology of Deviant Behavior
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


A study of the various forms of deviance from mental illness and juvenile delinquency to habitual crime with an analysis of sociological theories developed to explain the incidence of deviance. Contrast of sociological and psychological approaches to understanding the deviant.
30000

CJS 456 Managing Aggressive Behavior
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 458 Profiling and Threat Assessment
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An examination of criminal profiling, including crime scene profiling, psychological profiling, and offender profiling. Discussion of ethnic, racial, and behavioral profiling as well as equivocal death analysis (psychological autopsy). Geographical profiling of serial killers and rapists. The biopsychosocial model of threat assessment, including applications to school shooters. Management of stalking behavior. Empirical validity versus media sensationalism of profiling and threat assessment.
30000

CJS 460 Community Corrections
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Beginning with traditional forms of community supervision, namely probation and parole, this course examines the processes used to both manage and rehabilitate offenders in a community setting. The benefits and problems of various intermediate sanctions are examined, including: Intensive Parole and Probation, Electronic Monitoring, Boot Camps, and restitution and reconciliation programs.
30000

CJS 480 Theory of Law Enforcement
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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 will be examined.
30000

CJS 481 Gender Issues in Justice
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Current research and theorizing about the roles of women in the criminal justice system: as victim, offender and professional. The rape victim, the violent woman, the incarcerated mother, the policewoman and the woman lawyer, for example, are roles that raise particular questions concerning the fairness and effectiveness of social policy.
30000

CJS 482 Terrorism
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 483 Family Violence: Spouse and Child Abuse
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 484 Psychology, Psychiatry, and Law
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 485 Critical Issues in Criminal Justice
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 486 The Criminal Justice System
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Designed to introduce teachers, nurses, social workers and others involved in human service professions to the criminal justice system. Survey of criminal law, law enforcement, the courts, protection, prison and parole. Field trips role-playing and other educational techniques where appropriate. (Not for CJS majors.)
30000

CJS 487 Victimology
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 488 Sex Crimes
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


This course offers a comparative analysis of sexual deviance. Theoretical foundations will be applied to enhance the understanding of both nuisance and serious sexual offenses. The process of investigating sex crimes will be detailed, as well as discussions about serial sexual offenders.
30000

CJS 489 White Collar Crime
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


The problem of criminal deviance by the wealthy and powerful, including pro and anti-organizational deviance. Conflict, structural, and person-centered theories of elite deviance are compared and contrasted. The appropriateness of various social control efforts is also looked at. Case studies of various industries and organizations.
30000

CJS 490 Internship in Criminal Justice Studies
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 492 Senior Seminar: Theory and Research in Criminal Justice
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 495 Criminalistics (Forensic Science)
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
300

CJS 499 Violence in the Workplace
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An examination of various categories of workplace violence, including both worker-instigated and outsider-instigated. A look at the relative roles of organizational climate compared to person-centered variables as factors in producing workplace aggression. Programs to reduce workplace aggression are also examined.
30000

CJS 598 Research Practice Seminar
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab 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.
100

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