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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 15.00 Credits
Familiarization and direct experience in applied settings. Under supervision of faculty and adjunct staff, the student assumes a student-participant role in the criminal justice agency. Student must submit internship application during the first thirty days of the preceding spring, summer, or fall semester. Mandatory pass/fail. Restricted to CCJ major. Prerequisites: CCJ 201, 290, and 12 additional hours of Criminology and Criminal Justice courses at SIUC; minimum GPA of 2.5 overall and in CCJ courses through the semester prior to the internship experience, and consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the procedural aspects of criminal law pertaining to police powers in connection with the laws of arrest, search and seizure, the exclusionary rule, civil liberties, eaves-dropping, confessions, and related decision-making factors. Prerequisite: CCJ 201, 290, and 316 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the theories underlying modern police reform, how these theories have altered practice, the challenges of implementing and sustaining police reform, and the outcomes of such efforts. Prerequisites: CCJ 201, 290, and 316, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Assessment examines the theories, application, and research relevant to the identification, evaluation, and treatment planning for offenders under supervision by probation, parole, prison, and other community-based correctional organizations. The course also reviews the evidence of effectiveness associated with classification and assessment tools. Prerequisites: CCJ 201, 290, and 316, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Multidisciplinary analysis of the functions, goals, and effectiveness of measures to forestall delinquency and crime. Etiology of delinquent behaviors as related to community institutions such as police, courts, corrections, mental health clinics, schools, churches, and citizen groups. Prerequisite: CCJ 201, 290 and 316, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of historical, comparative, cultural and social structural aspects of homicide, robbery, rape and assaults. Course focuses on trends and patterns in criminal violence, the role of firearms, and victim/offender relationships. Prerequisite: CCJ 201, 290 and 316, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
(Same as Sociology 461 and Women's Studies 476) Addresses the topics of women as offenders, as victims, and as workers in the criminal justice system.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the physical and financial harm caused by wayward corporations and business employees from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Emphasis is placed on ethics, theory, legal decision-making and the regulatory monitoring and control of illegal corporate activity.
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3.00 Credits
(Same as Sociology 462) Examines the extent and nature of victimization, theories about the causes of victimization, the effects of crime on victims and services available to deal with those effects, victims' experiences in the criminal justice system, the victims' rights movement and alternative ways of defining and responding to victimization.
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3.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 473) Nature of theories of delinquency; analytical skills in studying the delinquent offenders' systematic assessment of efforts at prevention, control, and rehabilitation in light of theoretical perspectives. Prerequisite: CCJ 201, 290 and 316 or consent of instructor.
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