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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Examines theories of hate crimes; prejudice and discrimination; role of victims, offenders, and criminal justice system agents; intervention techniques; victim services; major hate crime issues with immigration; ethnic-racial- religious diversity; recommendations for policies and social change.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Examines theories of legislation and policy; analysis of advocacy, coalitions, social movements. Covers policy-making process. Program and policy evaluation, resource allocation, and accountability in private and public sector.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Physiological and psychological aspects of trauma, stress theory, crisis theory, and post-traumatic stress disorder; short-term and long-term trauma; victim advocate intervention techniques.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Examines theories, history, and contemporary roles of victimologists in education; research and practice; dynamics of victims' vulnerability, trauma, coping, and recovery; international, national, and state laws; policies and organizations implementing victim rights and services.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Assesses the scientific literature on jury decision-making from a social-psychological and legal perspective. Considers psychology of decisionmaking in terms of its applicability to juror behavior. Reviews jury selection and using behavioral scientists as consultants.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Examines juvenile delinquency and its relation to the development of adult criminal careers. Reviews research on the etiology of delinquency for purposes of theory development and the evaluation of specific intervention strategies.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Examines the psychological and behavioral principles that underlie investigative profiling. Compares and evaluates actuarial and clinical approaches in constructing offender profiles. Looks at the utility and reliability of profiling in criminal investigations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Examines risk assessment in forensic populations by evaluating empirical research on the subject; covers impact on judicial proceedings and legislative policies. Compares usefulness of various models and instruments of risk assessment for forensic populations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Explores role of the expert witness in the courtroom and in litigation. Studies legal standards of admissability, such as scientific research on expert testimony. Probes ethical challenges related to adversarial advocacy.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: FBS 201, 202, 203, 204, 221, 222, 223, 224, and 225. Primarily for those students interested in research careers in forensic sciences. Topics include perceptual, cognitive, and psychophysiological factors in forensically relevant settings, including police activities, investigation, courtroom and incarceration, and crime scenes and criminal activity.
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