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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 202 This course will introduce students to the study of the organizational culture of law enforcement. Specifically, students will encounter a rich, diverse and burgeoning literature on police culture, as they read a number of first-person accounts drawn from ethnographic fieldwork. They will explore vexing and contentious issues such as the misuse of force, official corruption and the militarization of policing in the 21st century.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 410 This course focuses on the commonly used research methods found in criminal justice. Using crime and justice contexts, topics covered include research design, the relationship between theory and research types of data, analytic techniques and ethical considerations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 335 and CRJU 410 This course examines crime, law and deviance in comparative perspective. Among the topics covered will be the logic of comparative research problems of cross-national data, violent crime, economic and political crime, transnational corporate crime, underdevelopment and crime, social control and conflict resolution, and criminal justice and penal policies. The course also focuses on crime in relation to age, gender, race and class. The comparative materials are used to reflect on problems of crime and the criminal justice system in the United States. Alternate spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 410 This course examines ethnographic research methodologies as they relate to crime and justice. The culture of particular criminal groups, as well as justice agents, is often unveiled for the first time through the efforts of field researchers. Students will learn how researchers enter the world of their subjects, build trust, process information and report social phenomena. Offered alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 410, which may be taken concurrently; and CRJU 420; or consent of instructor This course introduces students to structured real-time observations of the world of crime and criminal interdiction. Students will learn about the theories, practices and potential pitfalls of field research, from design to application and interpretation. Students will be introduced to the six most commonly employed approaches in qualitative research: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, case studies and content analysis. As a final project, students will choose one approach and will design a mock study intended to enhance potential future study of crime and the criminal justice system.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 202 This course examines the impact of what occurs before crimes are ever committed. Students will begin with an exposure to the definitions of culture, its impact on society, and the way(s) in which subcultures shape worldviews and notions of right and wrong. The course will introduce concepts such as resistance, transgression, and seduction as both predictors and explanations of crime within the overarching context of the power relationships experienced by the various cultures co-existing within our society.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 410 and CRJU 420 This course teaches principles of statistical techniques as applied within criminal justice. By using criminal justice research problems, this course will cover topics including constructing testable research questions, organizing data, applying appropriate statistical tests and interpreting results. This course also teaches student how to evaluate government data, technical reports and empirical studies which summarize criminal justice data. (CQUR)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CRJU 201 and CRJU 202 and CRJU 335 and CRJU 410; or consent of instructor This course explores key theoretical paradigms, as well as current research related to homicide. Situating homicide in the U.S. within global patterns and historical trends, this class investigates the following phenomena: types of homicide, which include femicide (murder of women), intimate partner homicide, serial murder, hate murder, rampage killings, gang murder and terrorism. The course also addresses the characteristics of homicide victims and offenders, along with identifying factors that contribute to variance in homicide levels and specific types of homicide. Finally, beginning with legal definitions of homicide, the course surveys how the criminal justice system responds to homicide.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Open to Commonwealth and Departmental Honors students and senior status. Completion of all prior departmental requirements and CRJU 420. The Honors Thesis can only be taken as a two-semester thesis. Students must enroll in CRJU 485 in a second consecutive semester after having successfully completed the first semester of CRJU 485. The Departmental Honors Committee will determine if the final version of the thesis qualifies the student to graduate with honors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Senior standing and CRJU 201 and CRJU 202 and CRJU 331 and CRJU 335 and CRJU 354 and CRJU 406 and CRJU 410 and CRJU 420; and CRJU 430 which may be taken concurrently. Students must have a minimum of 84 earned hours. This seminar will examine critical issues related to crime and justice. The focus of the seminar will vary from semester to semester, but it will enable students to synthesize their knowledge and skills in analyzing issues including ethics and criminal justice, racial inequality in the criminal justice system, the efficacy of increasing incarceration rates and societal responses to crime. The seminar will require students to demonstrate: 1) comprehensive knowledge of the field of criminal justice; 2) critical thinking skills applied to criminal justice; 3) effectiveness in oral and written communication; 4) awareness of ethical issues in criminal justice; and 5) knowledge of data sources in criminal justice and the ability to apply criminal justice related information and research.
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