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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course presents the principles of administration and management of criminal justice agencies. It examines organizational structure, responsibilities, and the interrelationships of administrative, line, and staff services in police, security, court, and correctional facilities.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers rules of evidence in law enforcement procedures from investigations to courtroom hearings. It examines burden of proof, judicial notice, and admissibility of testimonial and documentary evidence, relevancy, materiality, and competency. The course analyzes state and federal court cases as well as trial techniques and presentation of evidence. Prerequisites: Introduction to Criminal Justice (CRJ101) and Criminal Law (CRJ103) or permission of the department chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers an examination of current programs and services available in the corrections component of the criminal justice system. It emphasizes contemporary practices in corrections such as the community-based work-release programs, furloughs, halfway houses, and individual treatment services. The course includes an examination of alternatives to incarceration.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course covers the history, development, trends, and role of the community-based correction program in the American criminal justice system. The course includes therapeutic, support, and supervision programs for offenders. It examines pretrial release, detainment, and community services, as well as innovative programs. Students must make site visits. Prerequisite: Criminal Law (CRJ103).
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3.00 Credits
This course examines skills needed to negotiate and mediate in the criminal justice system. It provides strategies to achieve settlements and to intervene in disputes. Students conduct actual negotiations and mediations. Students critique and videotape both of these activities. Prerequisite: Criminal Law (CRJ103).
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3.00 Credits
This survey course covers the manner in which the criminal justice system deals with drug use and abuse in our society. Topics include the psychosocial aspects of drugs, the pharmacology of drugs, street names, cost, and current rehabilitation practices. The course analyzes prevention programs in light of what works and what doesn't as well as the cost of drugs to society.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces crimes involving the use of computers, the federal and state laws addressing them, and the preventive and investigative methods used to secure computers and defend and prosecute offenders. Part of information security is the electronics and technology needed to provide protection. Topics include budgeting, vendor selection, and security systems (biometrics, access control, closed circuit television, etc.) to meet organizational needs. Prerequisites: Principles of Security Management (CRJ106) and Management for Criminal Justice (CRJ201).
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3.00 Credits
This course covers an introduction to the philosophy and techniques of contemporary policing including the history, traditions, and social developments that have resulted in the present system. The course emphasizes the effects of economics, social developments, and Supreme Court decisions on the evolution of the modern system. Discussion focuses on police accountability and the measurement of effectiveness of operations. The course traces the shift from technological policing to community and problem solving policing.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the types of analyses conducted on crime scene evidence, their value, and limitations. It covers the evidentiary value of the following types of evidence: glass, soil, hairs and fibers, firearms, tool marks, and questioned documents. This course also covers forensic concepts, methods of collecting samples, and the value of blood distribution patterns, bloodstains and other bodily fluids. Prerequisite: Criminal Investigation (CRJ108).
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the problems with drugs, illicit and lawful, and the ways the laws in the United States relate to drugs, their users and distributors. Students learn the manner in which federal and state laws differ in terms of punishment. The course analyzes the dichotomy in the federal treatment of crack cocaine as opposed to powder cocaine and the attendant effect this policy has on communities of color. The course also examines the minimum, mandatory drug sentencing laws and their impact on the criminal justice system. Students also learn about the major worldwide drug smuggling routes through the Balkans, South East Asia, and South and Central America, and the way United States interdiction policies affect this smuggling. Prerequisite: Criminal Law (CRJ103).
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