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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce the student to various types of law that comprise the American legal system. The course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of western legal theory and constitutional legal history, criminal law, tort law, contract law, environmental law, family law, antitrust & consumer law, administrative law, property law, and federal torts: civil liability law. After completion of the course the student will have a foundation on which to build upon when taking more advanced and focused legal theory and applied courses.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the nature and scope of private security in modern society from historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives. It also addresses the latest trends and concerns in the security industry today. Basic principles of administration, organization, and operation of security and protection units are explored with an emphasis on the management aspect of the private security industry.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the theory and application of proactive measures to avoid or minimize industrial loss caused by criminal action as well as non-criminal events resulting from human error, natural disasters, and emergencies.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course will introduce students to organizational theory, examine local and state criminal justice agencies as organizations, explain the specific functions of each agency, and explore the reality of whether criminal justice operates as a system. The course will also introduce the student to the development and implementation of criminal justice policy at the local and state levels.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an in-depth analysis of criminal law in the United States. It focuses on the nature and purposes of criminal law, the sources of classifications and limitations on criminal law, the elements of criminal liability, defenses to criminal liability, parties to crime and the specific crimes against persons, property and public order and morals. Attention will be given to the model penal code and the criminal law of Pennsylvania.
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3.00 Credits
An extensive analysis of criminal procedure in the United States. The course will focus on decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court dealing with criminal procedure principles and doctrines. This course is designed as a follow-up course to Criminal Law.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the structure, authority, history, and jurisdiction of federal law enforcement, and its relationships with other state and local law enforcement agencies. The students will explore how federal law enforcement has evolved since this nation was formed and how its organizations have responded to the changing needs of the nation.
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3.00 Credits
This course is structured to cover the four major criminal justice systems in the world. It offers a topical approach, comparing cross-national criminal justice systems based on substantive and procedural laws, police, corrections, and juvenile justice. In addition, the course explores genocide and the international criminal tribunals that are organized under the auspices of the United Nations.
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3.00 Credits
A history of the American criminal justice system from the colonial period through the twenty-first century. This course provides an overview of the origin, development, operation and impact of police, courts, law, corrections and the juvenile justice system. Major analytical perspectives on American social control are described and analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of spatial analysis of crime. The foundational topics that will be covered include theories of crime and place, data and analytical techniques, detecting crime trends and hotspots, linking and forecasting crimes. In addition, the crime mapping software such as ArcGIS will be demonstrated to students throughout the course.
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