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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or CRJU 201; or consent of instructor Broadening the definition of crime, this course will study the behavioral systems involved in the commission of white collar crimes in complex structures, such as government bureaucracies, multi-national corporations and underground systems. The modern institutional factors – political and social – permitting or restricting the commission of such crimes will be investigated. Specifically, the performance of the criminal justice system will be examined. Spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 This course examines the development of American criminal law and the criminal court system. The purposes, structure, functions and effects of the legal system will be studied. Key principles for determining criminal liability and limits of liability, by means of justification and excuse, are studied. Among the crimes to be addressed are homicide, sexual assault, drugs and crimes against property, public order and morals. The course will also examine the roles of central actors and the decision-making process in criminal courts. It also explores the impact of social inequality on the structure and operation of criminal courts and considers prospects for reforming criminal courts.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or CRJU 201; or consent of instructor This course focuses on guns and lethal violence in society. Drawing on both criminal justice and sociological theory and research, it examines the causes and consequences of lethal violence with special attention to the role of firearms. Topics covered include the definitions and causes of violence, the extent to which guns intensify violence, guns and lethal violence, in comparative perspective, the American gun culture, the Second Amendment, the politics of gun control, the legal regulation of guns, the relationships between gun prevalence and gun violence, and the costs of gun violence. Offered every third year.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 This course offers a comprehensive view of the historical development of criminal procedure and how it defines standards of liberty for ordinary citizens as well as criminal defendants. In addition, this course focuses on the ideological changes that manifest in court opinion, the implicit, or at times explicit, relationship between politics, partisanship and court behavior. The role of the court as a solver of crime problems is also considered. (CWRT)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 or consent of instructor This course explores the philosophy of restorative justice, which includes a global set of indigenous peacemaking practices. Restorative justice emphasizes foregiveness, redemption, offender reintegration through community involvement, offender accountability and victim-offender mediation. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC; CWRT)
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or CRJU 201; or consent of instructor This course examines urban and neighborhood crime. In addition to surveying theories of urban crime, disorder, and unrest, it examines responses to urban crime, including community policing, order maintenance policing, crime prevention through environmental design, and programs to ameliorate the deeper causes of crime. The course examines the effects of inequality, racial and ethnic discrimination, substance abuse and gun violence on urban crime. Another topic covered is the drop in urban crime rates during the 1990s. Offered alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 202 This course is an analysis of the social and organizational structures and processes involved in dealing with individuals who have been designated as offenders of criminal law. The correctional system includes community-based corrections, institutional corrections, and issues of supervision, rehabilitation, aftercare and offender re-entry. (Formerly SOCI 354)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 202 This course examines the effects of class and race on justice outcomes. Historical and contemporary practices of the system are evaluated for disparate or discriminatory patterns. Once yearly. (CMCL)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 202 and six additional credits in criminal justice courses This course examines how changes in technology create new forms of crime, as well as modes of apprehension, detection and prevention. Additionally, the course will examine the “outsourcing” of surveillance by the states and the federal government to private corporate data miners. Offered alternate years.
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