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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Scientific analysis and identification of evidence and documents, special police techniques, interpretation of medical reports, and preparation of reports. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: JLS-104 and JLS-280.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Organized crime in the United States; its effect on society and the need for integrated response by people, government, and business. Organized crime as a social subculture. Socioeconomic and political aspects of organized crime emphasizing internal controls and external relations with various political and economic sectors. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Economic and fiscal implications and enforcement problems. Fraudulent association, bankruptcy fraud, monopoly and coercive competitive practices, and illegal use of securities and credit cards. Problems of theoretical criminology presented by white-collar crime. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Examination of the evolving relationship between correctional agencies and the U.S. Constitution. Landmark court decisions are reviewed within the framework of competing demands for fairness and crime control. Contemporary correctional issues and emerging innovations are presented and discussed in the context of cost, effectiveness, and constitutional guarantees and protections. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: JLS-104 and JLS-280.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Examines psycholegal research related to evidentiary issues in the criminal and civil justice process. Areas covered include accuracy of childhood testimony, eyewitness identification, judicial use of social science research, impact of nonadversarial versus adversarial expert testimony. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Major issues in criminal and civil justice systems, including detention, plea bargaining, pre-trial motions, collateral attack. Roles of prosecutor and defense counsel. Discovery and other instruments for narrowing issues and expediting litigation. Alternative methods of resolution, judicial management problems, fact-finding, and the jury system. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: JLS-104 and JLS-280.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate This course examines the institutional arrangements that constitute our system of civil justice. It describes the various decisions that are made to transform a grievance between citizens into a matter that comes before civil courts as well as those procedures followed by the courts to resolve a matter. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Basic psychiatric principles including contemporary views of causes, manifestations, patterns, and treatments of psychiatric and behavioral disorders; trends in the use of psychiatric resources to deal with deviant behavior within and without the criminal justice system. Includes incompetence as bar to trial, insanity as defense, civil commitment, drug addiction, alcoholism, psychiatry in processing and treating juvenile offenders, and rehabilitative efforts of the corrections system. Usually offered every fall.
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1.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Structured and unstructured exercises, including community service activities, to increase students' understanding of leadership and the role of leaders in the public policy-making process, and develop their personal leadership skills in communication, group dynamics, value clarification, the development of vision, managing emotions in leadership situations, bargaining and negotiation, and the relationship of personal growth to leadership roles and functions. Meets with GOVT-361. Prerequisite: permission of director of SPA Leadership Program.
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1.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate An advanced leadership development course that consists of structured and unstructured exercises designed to increase students' understanding of leadership and the role leaders play in the public policy-making process. Meets with GOVT-362. Prerequisite: JLS-361 or permission of director of SPA Leadership Program.
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