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  • CRM 300: Special Topics

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    Prerequisite: Permission of faculty member A variable-content course that is designed to offer a specialized topic, such as capital punishment, parole and probation, RICO, or organized crime.
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  • CRM 328: Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    An interdisciplinary examination of the nature of commonly used psychoactive substances with the human nervous system. Included are the history and patterns of their use, as well as the medical, legal, psychological, and sociological consequences of their abuse. Current practices and strategies for drug education and treatment are covered. Offered spring semester.
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  • CRM 329: Directed Study: Readings or Research

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    Prerequisites: Permission of faculty member and school dean A variable-content course in criminal justice that is designed for individuals or small groups of stu-dents to pursue in-depth a particular aspect of crime, law, or the criminal justice system that is not covered or is treated lightly in regular course offerings.
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  • CRM 330: Organized Crime

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    This course presents a comprehensive overview of the history and current activities of organized crime groups in the United States. An international perspective is taken, and there is strong emphasis on law enforcement, prosecution, and public policy considerations.
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  • CRM 331: White- Collar Crime

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    This course is designed to be a comprehensive overview of the white-collar crime phenomenon, including its history, components, causes, and domestic and international reach. The course also addresses white-collar law enforcement systems and white-collar high-tech crimes, and contrasts and compares white-collar crime with organized crime.
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  • CRM 333: Violent Crime

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    This course is a comprehensive overview of the problems and types of violent crime occurring in the United States. Course analysis includes youth gang violence, serial homicide, mass murder, domestic violence, and sexual battery in contemporary society. The nature and extent of these deviant acts along with official reports and surveys that provide measurement techniques of violent crime will be detailed. Included will be coverage of law enforcement, prosecution, and correctional efforts aimed at curtailing violent crime.
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  • CRM 341: History and Science of Criminal Identification

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    The focus of this course is the science and history of fingerprint analysis to aid in the detection and prosecution of criminal offenders. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will under-stand the biology of human epidermal and dermal skin layers to include the formation of pores and the organic and inorganic materials that are commonly found in fingerprint residues; the proper re-cording and comparison of prints; the many basic and advanced scientific methods currently being employed to develop fingerprints; the development of the print through chemical reaction, chemical absorption, luminescence, or physical attraction; the physics of light energy and its use as a print development method; and the many chemical reactions that produce the developed print.
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  • CRM 342: Evidence Collection and Preservation

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    This course covers the methods associated with evidence collection and preservation of evidence. Upon successful completion, the student will be competent in the recording of the crime scene through photography and videotaping as one of the many methods of preserving evidence; the use of the many evidence development and recovery kits; the use of light energy to locate invisible trace materials; crime scene safety; the presentation of scientifically sound information in the courtroom; and the correct methods to collect questioned, known, and control samples related to hair standards, DNA, soil, fire debris, accelerants, and biological fluids.
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  • CRM 343: Bodily Fluids as Evidence

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    This course covers the value of body fluids found at the crime scene, the interpretation of their pat-terns, and methods used to locate them. The successful student will understand the science of blood stain interpretation; presumptive testing of seminal fluid and blood; the various flight characteristics of blood and the use of trigonometry to determine angles of impact and the origin of stain patterns; the chemicals associated with the location of visible and invisible stain patterns produced from body fluids; the chemical reactions associated with these and other chemicals used in connection with body fluid processing; the scientific limitations relevant to courtroom testimony on such topics as blood stain interpretation, antigen-antibody reactions, presumptive blood and presumptive seminal fluid testing; and the history of DNA analysis and its modern day evidentiary value.
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  • CRM 344: Scientific Writing and Courtroom Testimony

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Leo University

    This course is designed to cover the effective writing and courtroom presentation of scientific re-ports. Students will be involved the actual processing of a crime scene, the development and collec-tion of evidence, the writing of the crime scene investigation report, and the subsequent testimony in moot court. The successful student will be skilled in the techniques associated with scientific report writing and oral delivery and be made aware of Frye hearings, the Daubert rules, and Rule 702, and the reality that the forensic sciences have their limitations.
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