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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the theory and practice of strategic, comprehensive, data-based efforts to address current community justice issues. The course will explore methods of community organizing and partnership development; help students develop problem-solving techniques, employing insights from research and practice; and engage students in discussions of how to sustain community-based initiatives related to community justice issues. Pre-requisites: JUS 2301, POS 2311 & SOC 2301.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the sociological understanding of law. It will link the study of law with such core sociological issues as social change and stability, order and disorder, the relationship between government and the individual, race, class and gender in law, and their consequences, legal definitions of deviancy and their consequences, introduction to theories of punishment, the sociology of the legal profession, and the functions of legal institutions and law-related structures and processes. Course content targets systems of law, with emphasis on the United States. Both empirical and qualitative models of sociological analysis of law will be scrutinized and evaluated within the curriculum. Pre-requisite: None.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an overview of the nexus between drugs and crime in the United States and how it affects the criminal justice system. Included is a comprehensive examination of the nature of the drug problem from a historic, social, political, economic, and psychological and physical addiction perspective; general knowledge of the impact of legal and illegal drugs on society and the justice system; the contribution of illicit drugs to crime and criminal behavior; drug production and distribution organizations and systems; drug prevention and treatment programs; and the debate over the decriminalization of drugs. Pre-requisite: JUS 2301.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with an understanding of the American criminal court systems. Pre-requisite: POS 2311. Cross-listed as POS 3355.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the history, organization and philosophy of the juvenile justice system. It will also explore the legal rights of juveniles and the manner in which juvenile crimes are punished and treated. Students will examine the classifications of juvenile offenders, alternative explanations for juvenile misconduct, juvenile courts, and juvenile correction systems. Pre-requisite: JUS 2301.
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3.00 Credits
The course will examine the intersections of class, race, and gender as means of helping the student understand the problems of crime, punishment, and justice. It will explore legal, cultural, and theoretical issues that affect how individuals, communities, and systems conceptualize justice based on the social classifications of people. Various theories of the relationships between or among class, race, gender, and justice will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on helping the student improve his or her research skills. Students in this course will be required to pursue their own independent research on a topic in Justice Studies. The topic will be chosen in consultation with the instructor. The students will also be assigned other research projects that demand accurate interpretation of data, critical and analytical thinking and the use of computer applications. Prerequisite: JUS 2302.
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3.00 Credits
Students will consider important contemporary issues in justice studies. They will be required to offer analyses of the issues considered, advocacy for particular resolutions of issues before courts, legislatures, or administrative agencies, or other approaches to contemporary problems. Pre-requisites: Senior standing, justice studies major & permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to involve students in the use of current technologies that can inform decisionmaking on justice-related issues. The course will introduce students to spatial and temporal analysis and other technologies, such as GIS, which are used as tools in analyzing, tracking, and presenting data such as information on crime, economic conditions, inequality, and community risk and protective factors. Students will learn how to gather and analyze demographic and other data to better understand relationships and possible applications in the context of community problem-solving. Pre-requisites: JUS 2301, SOC 2301, SOC 2336, POS 2311.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the history of corrections and punishment and of the philosophy of correctional institutions and administration. Students will study the organization and philosophies of correctional institutions and agencies. They will also examine contemporary alternatives to incarceration such as house arrest, community supervised residence, probation, and parole, in addition to classical and contemporary issues in corrections and of future trends in correctional practices. Pre-requisites: POS 2311 & JUS 2301.
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