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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The exploration of how individual and group counseling strategies and techniques can be applied in situations particular to criminal justice; analysis of factors common to criminal justice settings which may affect counseling effectiveness.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the interactions between society and its use of both medical and psychoactive chemicals, from early times to the present day. Primary focus will be on contemporary drug usage and the attempts to control substance abuse, and the consequences for both individuals and society of criminalizing drug use.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers three areas of study involving women and the legal system: (1)women in the workplace, including discrimination, comparable worth, sexual harassment and education; (2)women and the family, including marriage, divorce, child custody and domestic violence; and (3)women's bodies, including reproductive rights, rape and prostitution.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CCJ 3023. This course is a historical and functional analysis of law enforcement in a democratic society. The course includes the analysis of comparative police systems, police roles, careers, values and behavior, and police organization, management and control.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores physical, emotional and verbal child abuse and neglect. Students will analyze the criminal dynamics, historical perspectives; effects and consequences; treatment responses for victims and perpetrators; and issues related to race, sex and class in child abuse and neglect.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Admission to the program. This course examines the social processes by which human behavior or characteristics get banned as deviant/criminal, how societies use social control processes to deal with deviance, and how deviants respond to social control efforts and attempt to manage their deviant/criminal identities. The special role of making law in the banning of unwanted behavior or characteristics, and in the control efforts aimed at deviants who subsequently violate the rules, will be examined. Specific analysis of the role of formal and informal social control will be undertaken.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the role of race, social class, and ethnicity in the American criminal justice system. It examines the historical impact that the criminal justice system has had on minorities in this country, as well as the role that crime (primarily felony crime) has played in the lives of various minorities within American society. Emphasis will also be placed on both offense and victimization patterns within black and Hispanic communities.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the definitions and etiology of delinquent behavior; the adjudication process for juveniles, both in theory and practice; and treatment procedures.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CCJ 3023 This course covers the definition and concept of crime in Anglo-Saxon legal systems. It includes the common-law origins and subsequent statutory modification and amplification of representative substantive criminal offenses, law of search and seizure, and the exclusionary rule.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CCJ 3023. This course examines the American judicial systems, its role and function in the criminal justice process, the actors and processes which drive it, and the outcomes it produces. Topics include the origin of American court structure and processes, criminal trial processes, rules of evidence, and the appellate court system.
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