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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Students must partner with an organization of their choosing to work hands-on in the information technology industry. A partner should be selected with the help of the placement office that will provide a substantial learning experience in the area of the student's interest. A minimum of 55 hours of work in the information technology domain is expected per credit hour (maximum of 6 total hours for credit).
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3.00 Credits
An IT course designed to provide an opportunity to present specialized topics in information technology that may not be covered in other courses due to the speed of change in the field. Additionally, the course provides a mechanism by which students may pursue an area of research or independent study in the field of information technology.
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3.00 Credits
This course reflects Trevecca's commitment, as a Christian liberal arts university, to nurturing an appreciation for Scripture as the basis for creative personal faith and human life in the modern world. The course reflects the history of criminal justice based on Judeo-Christian principles. It is designed to foster knowledge and understanding of the literature and history of the Bible, and to integrate faith, learning, and living.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to research, theory, and applications of the causes and consequences of police behavior. Community policing, problem-solving methods, police discretion, police misconduct, police crime prevention strategies, policing and restorative justice. Also covers political controls on authority and jurisdiction, professionalization of the police, and the relationship between the police organization and the individual.
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3.00 Credits
Brief historical overview of criminological theory up to the 1950s. Deviance, labeling, social control, routine activities, rational choice, life course, opportunity, and self control theories of crime. Recent research in criminalistic subcultures, criminal persistence and desistance in criminal behavior and the debate on the age-crime curve and the argments surround career criminals and criminal careers.
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3.00 Credits
Juvenile delinquency in relation to the general problem of crime, analysis of factors underlying juvenile delinquency, treatment and prevention, its onset, prediction and desistence. Organization and social responsibility of law enforcement.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the research and policy issues for community-based and institutional correctional programs, assessment and screening tools, management of convicted offenders and institutional overcrowding. Research on prediction of recidivism, matching of treatment programs to offenders, management of correctional institutions and programs.
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3.00 Credits
Procedure of the criminal courts from the defense viewpoint. ABA standards for defense attorneys, the handling of a case by the defense from arrest to appeal, and ethical problems posed for defense attorneys. Attention given to defense by appointment and plea bargaining.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to research and theory in prosecution, plea-bargaining, sentencing principles and guidelines, and sentencing policies in practice. Mandatory minimum sentencing, "three strikes" laws, race, gender and class disparities, general and specific deterrent effects of sentencing, restitution and restorative justice, diversion and sentencing to treatment.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of public hostility toward police and current community relations projects, human relations, training and education of law enforcement officers; responsibilities of police administrators, including various organizational functions within agencies, causes of tension and conflict, dissent and disorder, positive and negative factors in the control of minority group hostilities; minority recruitment in law enforcement.
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