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3.00 Credits
Analyzes judicial organization, court administration, and criminal court judicial decision making practices within the context of the broader operation of the criminal justice system. Special attention is paid to the social organization of the courtroom, examining the special roles of judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. Cross-listed with CRJU 7551.
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3.00 Credits
Offers a normative framework within which to explore ways to increase sensitivity to the demands of ethical behavior among criminal justice personnel. The application of a normative perspective enhances the possibility that moral problems are better understood, more carefully analyzed, and rendered more tractable applied ethics forces a reflection not just on ethics, but also on the nature and operation of the criminal justice system itself. Cross-listed with CRJU 7552.
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3.00 Credits
Explores issues surrounding women as offenders, victims, and criminal justice professionals. Investigates explanations for the involvement of women in illegal activities. Analyzes the plight of battered women, rape victims, and other female victims. Examines the participation of women in law enforcement judicial processes, corrections and lawmaking. Cross-listed with CRJU 7553.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of reform efforts in the criminal justice system. Selected theoretical approaches and policies are examined and assessed in light of their assumptions and programmatic applications. The rational and process underlying selected reform strategies are explored. The implications of the effects of reform in criminal justice policy making and decision making are analyzed. Cross-listed with CRJU 7554.
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3.00 Credits
In this seminar, students demonstrate their mastery of the knowledge and skills acquired in core courses, as applied to either their chosen program concentration or individualized program, by conducting a Program Integration Project. The PIP may be either an independent research project or client-oriented project. Students also make a juried oral presentation of the professional paper which reports project findings. This is the cumulative opportunity for students to apply concepts and theory to professional practice, and thus should be taken at or near the end of a student’s program of study. Prereq: CRJU 5000, CRJU 5100, CRJU 5120, CRJU 5321.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the relationship of neighborhood social disorganization to the dynamics of crime from a social ecology perspective. The course examines the underlying social causes of phenomena such as criminal victimization, violent and property crime, neighborhood fear, neighborhood deterioration, and recidivism. The course examines social, structural, and ecological characteristics of neighborhoods and communities in affecting crime. Cross-listed with CRJU 7571.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the role of race in criminal justice processing. This course examines the research findings, interpretations, issues, and implications in assessing the impact of race in the administration of criminal justice. Explores the policy implications concerning the nature and extent of racial disparities in the criminal justice system and lays out a research agenda to more strategically address these issues within criminal justice policy making. Cross-listed with CRJU 7572.
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3.00 Credits
Employs both the social science and legal approaches to examine crime committed by corporations as well as by individuals in white collar occupations. The course covers how such crimes are socially defined, who commits them, who is victimized by them, which social contexts promote them, and how society and the criminal justice system respond to them. Cross-listed with CRJU 7574.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the offender who may be mentally disordered. A survey is made of the various phases of the criminal justice system where psychiatrists are involved, e.g., diversion, fitness, insanity and sentencing. Dangerous sex offender legislation, “Not guilty by reason of insanity” and “Guilty but mentally ill” statutes, and issues concerning confidentiality, informed consent, and treatment are addressed. Cross-listed with CRJU 7575.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the use of social science as a tool for legal analysis within the criminal justice system. The course examines how social science research is used to resolve relatively simple factual disputes, then moves on to more complex issues that arise when social science is invoked to make or to change law, both constitutional law (particularly the First, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth amendments) and common law, particularly the construction of procedural rules that govern the operations of the criminal justice system. Cross-listed with CRJU 7576.
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