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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide the criminal justice major with basic information about the state, county and municipal level of policing in the United States. Issues such as the police role, police discretion, police culture, personality and stress will be discussed. Other areas of inquiry will be police and the various communities they police, police and the law, and police ethics. Finally, the course will present pragmatic career choice information to the student concerning required entry level law enforcement testing, physical requirements age restrictions, psychological parameters, and other qualifications that the student will be required to meet in order to enter into a law enforcement career. There is a strong emphasis on police entry testing.
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3.00 Credits
This course would expose the student to a broad spectrum of law enforcement organizations that occur in our society today. The focus would be on the organization of law enforcement and certain management styles that have been utilized to deal with policing our society. The issues and areas to be covered would include: management theory, organizational environment, leadership, productivity, operations, information management, communications, and the relationship that exists in these and other areas which affect our law enforcement agencies today. A required course for the baccalaureate degree in Criminal Justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course will review the historical foundations of policing and relate those original influences to present-day practices and policies. The course will include a review of private police/security, police unions, political influences on police work, and police deviance. An in-depth look at police problems and issues such as ethics, decision making, police discretion, use of deadly force, police cynicism, stress in police employment, coping mechanisms, and the future of policing will be included.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce and apply environmental investigative techniques to the detection and resolution of environmental criminal activity. It will include an in-depth discussion of: environmental investigative approaches, laws and regulations governing the enforcement of environmental crimes, differentiation between law enforcement and regulatory duties, and an understanding of a basic law enforcement tenet, protection of life and property, from an environmental perspective. A required course for the baccalaureate degree in Forensic Science/Crime Scene Investigation.
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3.00 Credits
This upper division criminal justice course is designed to combine the principles of competency-based learning of case law and the skills necessary to effectively understand the practices and procedures of our court and judicial system. The course will focus on the nature and development of evidence law, admissibility of evidence, relevancy of evidence, character evidence, witness examination and credibility, impeachment, expert testimony, scientific evidence as well as hearsay and privilege testimony. A required course for the baccalaureate degree in Forensic Science/Crime Scene Investigation.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide students with a stronger understanding of the scope and seriousness of all forms of family violence and abuse, and the difficulties faced by criminal justice and human service agencies. Historical, social, political, psychological, and legal aspects of family violence will be considered, and much time will be devoted to examining underlying causes. This course will also evaluate some of the nonviolent harm done by families to their members, including the contributions made by family structure and functioning to problems such as delinquency or adult criminality, depression, and suicide.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the dynamics of family violence with an emphasis on treatment and intervention strategies. Students will examine types of family violence across the life span, identification and reporting procedures, controversial issues of relevance to the field of family violence, the impact of substance abuse/misuse on family functioning and violent patterns of behavior, and current and innovative approaches to treatment and prevention.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide an interdisciplinary perspective of worldwide crime and justice. The course will explore topics such as global crime, crime rates, crime trends, and crime theories. The Criminal Justice Systems of England, France, Sweden, Japan, and Russia will be compared with the United States Criminal Justice System.
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3.00 Credits
This upper division course was designed to provide students with an understanding and appreciation for the whole new concept that was formulated primarily to combat the threat of terrorism. Initially, Homeland Security was a term utilized by President George W. Bush to describe the creation of the newly formed Department of Homeland Security. This comprehensive reorganization of the federal government was undertaken with the specific intent of improving the security and safety of our nation against terrorist attacks such as the ones that occurred on 9/11. The concept of homeland security has now evolved into a much broader context that affects the everyday lives of all Americans. It affects our basic civil liberties (the Patriot Act), how we travel (airport and airline security), how we gather and disseminate intelligence information, how first responders are trained to respond to suspected acts of terrorism and how we conduct business with countries that harbor or foster terrorists. The see and other related topics concerning Homeland Security will be discussed during this course.
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3.00 Credits
All professionals in the Criminal Justice system must be sensitive to ethical issues. This course will expose students to a broad range of moral argument and so give them an opportunity to construct moral frameworks of their own. Students will explore a variety of ethical issues in criminal justice such as (1) Social inequalities; unequal access to justice; (2) Corruption, bribery, and influence peddling; (3) The integrity of evidence; truthful testimony; (4) Plea bargaining; (5) Use of force, weapons, and coercion. A required course for the baccalaureate degree in Criminal Justice and Forensic Science/Crime Scene Investigation.
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