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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Review of the history of policing and police functioning, with regardto contemporary social issues. Special focus on related research intopolice functioning.
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3.00 Credits
Offered only through the School of Continuing Studies. Instruction inthe collection and preservation of physical evidence found at a crimescene.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJS 105An introductory analysis of substantive criminal law, emphasizingcommon law and modern statutory applications of criminal law.Course topics include the nature of substantive law, the distinctionbetween the criminal and civil justice systems, the elements ofcrimes, and the essential components of crimes including wrongfulcriminal acts (actus reus), criminal intent (mens rea), causation andharm. This course also considers the insanity defense, entrapmentand several other defenses to crimes that are used in the U.S. legalsystem.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJS 105 or permission of instructorConsiders the development of procedural due process in the UnitedStates. Analyzes in detail United States Supreme Court decisions inFourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment cases. Course topics includesearch and seizure, the right to be free from self-incrimination, doublejeopardy, the right to counsel, the right to a speedy and public trial,and other aspects of procedural due process.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJS 105 or PLS 100An analysis of civil liberties and civil rights in the United States.Course topics include religious liberty, free speech, equal protection oflaw, the right to privacy, and due process of law.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJS 105The course examines the nature of the relationship between the lawand families in the United States. The course focuses on an analysisof how the law structures marital and familial relationships and how,in turn, society's changing definitions and conceptions of marriageand family impacts both criminal and civil law. The course examinesthe proper boundaries of state intervention in people's most privaterelationships and highlights how family law and changes in familylaw both shape and reflect some of society's most strongly held socialvalues. Topics include marital privacy, child-parent relationships,divorce, child support and custody, domestic violence, and intra-familycrime.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJS 105, CJS 201An analysis of common law and the rules of evidence applicable incriminal cases including presumptions and inferences, direct andcircumstantial evidence, relevance, the hearsay rule and its exceptions,character evidence, and the rape shield statutes.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJS 150; SOC 100 recommendedAn analysis of the theory, procedures and practices associated with thepolice functions of service, maintenance of order, and crime reductionwithin the community. Topics include the role of the police in achanging society, police discretion, and community relations in thecontext of our changing culture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CJS 105An in-depth study of organized crime in the United States. Examinessociological theories and trends in an attempt to understand thereasons for the existence of organized crime. Attention also given topolicies and practices of law enforcement in response to organizedcrime.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CJS 105This course is an introduction to the methodology, design, andresearch techniques used in the fields of criminal justice andcriminology. Course topics include sampling, research designs, ethicalconsiderations in research, survey construction, interviewing andproposal writing.
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