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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Concentrates on oral and written communication and information literacy skills essential to the criminal justice discipline. Focuses on improving writing ability, APA and legal citation formats, and critical thinking skills, including analysis of information. Provides exposure to library research, basic research methodology, and evidence-based practices to prepare students for the capstone experience, graduate school, and careers in criminal justice. Prerequisite(s): CCJ major; CCH 230 or CCH 231; CCJ 251 .
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4.00 Credits
Examines social science research methods, including survey research, methods of evaluating research, sampling, and contrasts between quantitative and qualitative research. Prerequisite(s): CCJ 230 or CCJ 231 ; CCJ 300 .
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4.00 Credits
Examines the principles, procedures, and methods used in criminal investigation. Covers sources of information, methods of data collection, interviewing, and the types and power of physical evidence. Prerequisite(s): CCJ 241 .
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4.00 Credits
Offers an advanced, in-depth analysis of the major theories of crime and delinquency. Examines theories in historical context, with emphases on biological, psychological, sociological, and political frameworks. Prerequisite(s): CCJ 230 or CCJ 231 .
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4.00 Credits
Provides an in-depth examination of the social and historical foundations of the American correctional institution. Focuses on the structure and social processes of institutions of confinement in relation to treatment and rehabilitation. Includes a systematic evaluation of recidivism, general and specific deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation, and retribution in relation to the American correctional system. Emphasizes philosophies of punishment, sentencing strategies, the prison community, alternatives to incarceration, and reform efforts. Prerequisite(s): CCJ 271 .
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the technologies, techniques, and responsibilities of criminal or civil investigation that involves computers, computer networks, network service providers, and electronic evidence. Explores various ways in which a computer or computer network can be associated with a crime. Examines computer and networking technologies. Explores rules of evidence and proof. Emphasizes maintaining an evidentiary trail through computer data and network activity. Approved for University Studies (Synthesis/Integration). Prerequisite(s): Completion of all lower division University Studies requirements (Cross-listed with CS 346.)
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4.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to the practical aspects of understanding crime on the Internet through computer investigations. Students will examine the impact to the criminal justice system because of computers, computer applications, and the benefits and challenges of the World Wide Web, copyright laws, privacy issues and laws, computer crime statistics and trends, constitutional issues, risks of computer failures, computers in the workplace, cyber-terrorism, and responsibilities of the criminal justice professional in the growing cyber-community.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes the statistics, trends, characteristics, and causes of juvenile delinquency. Discusses biological, psychological, and sociological theories. Examines the relationships between juvenile delinquency and the socialization process, family environment, and social structure. Introduces the theories of delinquency, social influences on delinquency, the history of the juvenile justice system, the juvenile justice process, and the focus on prevention models currently used in the U.S. Approved for University Studies (Integration). Prerequisite(s): CCJ 230 or CCJ 231 .
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Credits
Reading and Conference
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