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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines supervisory methods and problems within the law enforcement organization and the implication of principles of human relations to effective performance; policy and procedure; field supervision; instruction and planning; supervisory reporting; and performance evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
This course concerns individual and group studies in the dynamics of law enforcement and administration, policy formation and decision making in management from a human relations and organizational point of view, and electronic data processing in law enforcement.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines factors contributing to friction or cooperation between law enforcement personnel and the community, with emphasis on minority groups, political pressures, and cultural problems. Community organization and social responsibility of law enforcement also will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the formal process whereby the government seeks to convict and punish a person for a criminal offense. Special emphasis will be placed on appellate review, the law of search and seizure, interrogations, confessions, the use of informers and entrapment, pretrial procedures, and various doctrines applying the fourteenth amendment.
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3.00 Credits
Students are exposed to an in-depth discussion and analysis of the most recent Supreme Court decisions in criminal cases. Issues of procedural and substantive law, right to counsel, criminal evidence, and constitutional law will be covered.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the nature and causes of juvenile crime and delinquency in America and other cultures. An in-depth analysis of crime measurement, causes, controls, and treatment are examined. Other topics include juvenile law, corrections, family therapy, gangs, schools, and the influence of the mass media on juvenile crime and delinquency.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the major decisions made about juveniles from initial contact by the police through termination of legal control over their conduct. Constitutional limitations on the power of the juvenile justice process as a result of recent Supreme Court decisions, case law developments, and statutory changes will be reviewed.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines descriptive, inferential and multivariate statistics employed in criminal justice research about the nature of crimes, criminals, and the criminal justice system. Statistical packages such as SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) are employed in the course to aid students in the calculation and interpretation of key statistical techniques commonly employed in the field.
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3.00 Credits
The course explores the relationship of the mass media to our perception of crime, criminals, and the criminal justice system. The mass media generate a "social construction of reality" that influences public opinion, public policies, and general social attitudes toward violence. While both the print and electronic media are examined as purveyors of social perceptions of criminals, victims, law enforcers, lawyers, judges, prisoners, and the like, emphasis in the course will be placed on the electronic and film media.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a critical examination of the nature and extent of deviant behavior in complex, industrial societies. Particular attention will be given to the causes and consequences of deviant behavior and to the social relations and processes associated with the more common forms of deviant and criminal expression within American society.
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