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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the study of family violence issues. Typology and history of family abuse, responses to family violence, and public policy issues will be the focus of study. Issues in domestic violence, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, elder abuse, child abuse, treatment approaches, and legal guidelines.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: junior standing. This course is a comprehensive survey course on the internal and external mechanisms which support and foster international crime systems. Crime systems will be looked at via countries as well as continents. The form that crime takes transnationally will also be discussed along with the judicial responses to crime transnationally including corrections.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the origins and development of the mafia in the context of Italian and American politics, economics, and society from the nineteenth century until the present day. The approach adopted will be both political-historical and sociological-anthropological. Lectures and discussions will be supplemented with newspaper/magazine articles, films (documentary and fictional) and contemporary literature.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CJ 100 , CJ 102 , CJ 217 , or permission of instructor. Introductory overview of types of civil liability lawsuits brought against law enforcement officers. Exploration of ways to relieve the pressure of this potential liability. Emphasis placed on negligence and intentional torts.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJ 100 or by permission of Instructor. This course is designed to familiarize students with the ethnographic research method. Ethnography is a scientific approach to investigating and learning about social and community patterns. In addition to course readings and class discussions, students will immerse themselves into another community for the purpose of describing human conditions within the community of interest. In the end, the students may develop a criminology rooted theory based upon their observations and inclusion of the community members' voices.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJ 205 This course focuses on the functions of the police psychologist such as candidate screening, stress management and counseling, hostage negotiations, critical incident debriefing, and fitness for duty evaluations. Application of psychological principles to investigation strategies such as profiling and hypnosis will also be explored.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJ 205 This course will focus on the study of human behavior and cognitions within the legal and criminal justice system. Special emphasis will be given to the contributions of legal and cognitive psychology in understanding the criminal and civil legal system. Topics will include eyewitness testimony, jury decision-making, confession evidence, and punishment and sentencing.
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3.00 Credits
This class will review the civil and criminal law as it relates to mental health issues. Particular emphasis will be given to the justification of mental health law concepts, such as civil commitment and parens patriae power. Topics will include competence to stand trial, insanity, civil commitment, sexual predator commitment statutes, confidentiality, duty to warn, informed consent, malpractice, and issues of expert testimony. Legal cases will be examined to give the students a foundation in actual legal case law. Ethical issues and issues of professional responsibility will be covered.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJ 100 Prerequisites: CJ 100, CJ 300. An examination of theoretical and philosophical issues affecting the administration of justice: the problems of reconciling legal and theoretical ideals in various sectors of the criminal justice system with the realities of practice.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJ 100 Prerequisites: CJ 100, CJ 300. Acquaints students with the major developments and trends of policing in a free society. Emphasis placed on American police and the role of the police in a democracy. Further emphasis placed on the examination of the interactions between the police and the communities they serve.
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