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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/5 contact hours) Examines the emergence, progress, and problems of the criminal justice system in the United States. Topics include: the American Criminal Justice system; constitutional limitations; organization of enforcement, adjudication, and corrections; and career opportunities and requirements. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/5 contact hours) Provides an overview of all phases of the American correctional system and practices, including its history, procedures, and objectives. Topics include: history and evolution of correctional facilities; legal and administrative problems; institutional facilities and procedures; probation, parole, and prerelease programs; alternative sentencing; rehabilitation; community involvement; and staffing. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/5 contact hours) Examines the principles of organization and administration and the duties of local and state law enforcement agencies with emphasis on police departments. Topics include: history and philosophy of law enforcement, evaluation of administrative practices, problems in American law enforcement agencies, emerging concepts, professionalism, and community crime prevention programs. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/6 contact hours) Introduces the substantive law of major crimes against persons and property. Attention is given to observation of courtroom trials. Topics include: laws of arrest and search and seizure; procedures governing arrest, trial, and administration of criminal sanctions; rules of evidence; general court procedures; rights and duties of officers and citizens; and Supreme Court rulings that apply to Criminal Justice /overview of Constitutional Law. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 . Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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2.00 Credits
(2 credit/ contact hours) Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/5 contact hours) Provides an orientation to the development, philosophy, responsibility, and function of the private security industry. A historical and philosophical perspective of private security will help students better understand the present stage of private security, its principles, its legal authority and its effect on society in general. Topics include: private security: an overview; basic security goals, and responsibilities; when prevention fails: security systems at work: putting it all together, and challenges facing the security profession in the 1990's and beyond. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/5 contact hours) Provides an orientation that contains a step-by-step approach to the investigation, seizure, and evaluation of computer evidence. Topics include: computer-related evidence, crime scene investigation, evidence evaluation and analysis, passwords and encryption, networks, and investigative computer systems. The second part of this course provides an orientation that focuses on corporate fraud as it relates to computerized accounting systems and its technology, the various types of corporate computer fraud and simple audit techniques that can assist in investigating and detecting fraud. Topics include: history and evolution of fraud, mindset: step one in fraud auditing, corporate fraud in the current environment, corporate fraud investigation in the electronic data processing era, defenses against corporate fraud, theft and embezzlement, and auditing for inventory shortage. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/5 contact hours) Designed to aid law enforcement officers to better understand and communicate with members of other cultures with whom they come in contact in the line of duty. Topics include: defining and applying terms related to intercultural attitudes, role-play activities related to intercultural understanding, developing interpersonal/intercultural communication competence, and development of personal intercultural growth plan. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/5 contact hours) Explores the managerial aspects of effective and efficient police administration. Emphasis is directed towards increasing organizational skills and overcoming interdepartmental and inter-agency non-communication. Topics include: environmental management, human resources, and organizational concerns. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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5.00 Credits
(5 credit/5 contact hours) Presents the fundamental principles of criminal investigation. Emphasis is placed on legal requirements stated in Georgia Criminal Law, definition of felony crimes stated in the Georgia Code and fundamentals of: investigative procedures, crime scene searches, identification and collection of evidence, note-taking and report writing, surveillance, identification of witnesses and suspects, interviews and interrogation, and preparation and presentation of evidence in court. Topics include: Georgia criminal law, common investigative techniques, and procedures used for investigating various crimes. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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