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3.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive overview of legal issues attendant to international terrorism. In particular, students will examine the "War on Terror" and the tension between approaches based on criminal law enforcement versus a military or warrior basis. A special emphasis will be placed on the interrelationship between United States law and international law and agreements. The course will address current efforts in counter-terrorism, with special emphasis on recent federal prosecu-tions for terrorist acts or aiding terrorist organizations. As a Criminal Justice course, this study will include historical and political information and current, relevant information on counter-terrorism objectives and methods.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive overview of international and domestic terrorism, arising from either religious or secular roots. It will examine the historical and philosophical underpinnings of terrorism in general, and identified terrorist organizations in particular. The course will examine exploitable weaknesses of terrorists; terrorist typology; human factors as applied to terrorists; modus vivendi of terrorists; conspiratorial association theorems; weaknesses of terrorist groups; and proac-tive measures in support of terrorist investigations. The course will address current efforts in counter-terrorism, with special emphasis on the federal and state responses. As a Criminal Justice course, this study will consist of a hybrid of historical and political information and current, relevant information on counter-terrorism objectives and methods.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the need to plan for the possibility of a terrorist event on the local level. A terrorist event could take place that restricts or retards the state and fed-eral government's response to a local community. The course will give the student the tools needed to prepare a local agency for immediate response to an event in his or her community. The course will give an introduction to the National Incident Management System and will provide the student with the information necessary to ensure local government compliance with federal law.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: POL 123 and CRM 220 This course is designed to be a comprehensive overview of police organization and administration in the United States. The history of police administration and the evolution of policing as a profession will be thoroughly explored. Current and future trends in law enforcement will be discussed in detail. Emphasis will be placed on police personnel issues and the leadership skills required to manage a professional police organization. The student will be exposed to the past, the present, and the future of police administration in this country.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: POL 123 and CRM 220 This course provides a comprehensive examination of U.S. law enforcement systems at the federal, state, and local levels. The student should gain an understanding of patrol strategies, field training, detective operations, case screening, crime laboratory, police corruption, use of force, due process issues, community relations, law enforcement information systems, professionalism, job stress, and innovations in policing.
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6.00 - 12.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission of the chair This field placement is designed to give criminal justice majors without professional experience in the criminal justice system some direct exposure to the daily workings of a criminal justice agency. Students must coordinate their field placement choice and the number of hours credited with their academic advisor. This is a pass/fail course.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: POL 123 and CRM 220 This course is designed to be a comprehensive overview of our government's response to convicted criminal offenders. The origins, evolution, processes, and current problems of correctional systems will be the topics of study. More specifically, the course will cover the history of corrections in the United States, short-term detention, state and federal prisons, inmate topologies, capital punishment, correctional law, probation/parole, and community corrections.
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0.00 Credits
Corequisite: CRM 499 Final comprehensive written examination of all Criminal Justice foundation and core courses. Ex-amination is administered in the CRM 499: Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice course. Test fee.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Senior standing in criminal justice This capstone course is designed to synthesize the information and insights from the other courses in the criminology curriculum. It includes computer-based research in crime trends and causes, a re-search project that evaluates criminal justice policy-making, an assessment of each senior Criminal Justice major's knowledge level through the administration of a nationally based criminology achievement examination, and exposure to components of the criminal justice system through volun-teer experience at local agencies.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Permission of faculty member and school dean/center director A variable-content course in economics that is designed for a specific class level: freshman (100) through senior (400). Topic is announced in advance or at registration.
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