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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with current and practical information on how to avoid lawsuits in the correctional setting. Students will gain knowledge about federal and state legal liabilities and some of the complex areas of the law affecting correctional institutions.
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3.00 Credits
This course highlights the application of human communication skills in the corrections workplace. Focus will be on communications between correctional staff and also between correctional staff and inmates. Emphasis will be on self concept, perception, verbal and nonverbal messages, interpersonal relationships and small group communication.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to include the basic concepts of written communications adapted to the specific tasks encountered in the corrections profession. There will be heavy concentration in dealing with conflict and cooperation, proper grammar and writing information and proper corrections reports. The actual class time will be spent in group discussions, structured exercises to build vocabulary, written communication, oral communication and narrative report writing for the corrections field.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Survey of the criminal justice system in the United States including historical developmental aspects and the function of the police, courts, and correctional agencies in a demographic society.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The Directed Independent Study provides the student an opportunity to expand his/her knowledge of the criminal justice field. Through a research agreed upon between the instructor and the student, the student will complete an investigation of the specified topic and prepare a research report.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A detailed study of the policy within a spectrum of critical issues such as the police role in democracy, ethnic tensions and the police, police unionism and police professionalism. Other vital areas of concern covered are civil disturbances, organized crime, civil disobedience, enforcement of the law, and police misconduct.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
An introduction to law enforcement operation and procedures including organization and administration. Emphasizes the police role in society and operational procedures including trial processes, human relations, career orientation and research areas.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will endeavor to shed light upon the complexities of criminology, crime causation, and reaction to offenders. Some of the topics include: crime and criminology, casual analysis; psychogenic approaches; the socialpsychology of criminal careers, patterns of sexual deviation, murderers and assaultists, criminality among respectable citizens, treatment of offenders, and the results of treatment.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Principles used in crime scene protection; interviewing complaintants, suspects and victims, crime scene search; collection and preservation of physical evidence. Post-mortem changes; cutting and stabbing wounds; firearm wounds and investigation of specific types of deaths are taught.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Criminal procedure and courtroom practices most commonly confronting law enforcement officers in the administration of criminal law; inquests, indictments, warrants, arrest, preliminary examination, bail, pleading, trial, appeals; search and seizure, use of force and evidence.
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