|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This course in a hands-on approach investigating cyber crimes (e.g. child exploitation, predators, sexual/vice crimes, identity theft, etc.). Students will explore and discuss legal cases involving cyber technology and predatory practices and review applicable evidentiary rules. Students will also analyze the practical and ethical considerations that apply to undercover internet operations, and evidence collection and use to locate and apprehend offenders.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is a detailed approach to how computers and networks function, how they can be involved in virtually any type of crime, and how they can be used as a source of evidence. Students will analyze relevant legal issues and specific investigative and forensic processes related to technology. This course examines how deductive criminal profiling, a systemic approach to focusing an investigation and understanding criminal motivations, is utilized to locate and apprehend offenders.
-
4.00 Credits
This community-based course, taught in a local correctional facility, brings university students and incarcerated students together to study as peers. Together students explore issues of crime and justice, drawing on one another to create a deeper understanding of how these issues affect our lives as individuals and as a society. The course creates a dynamic partnership between UMD and a correctional facility to allow students to question approaches to issues of crime and justice in order to build a safer and more just society for all. The course encourages outside (UMD) students to contextualize and to think deeply about what they have learned about crime and criminals and to help them pursue the work of creating a restorative criminal justice system; it challenges inside students to place their life experiences into larger social contexts and to rekindle their intellectual self-confidence and interest in further education.
-
3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Provides field experience in social welfare or criinal justice agencies, e.g., for children/adolescents, in residential programs, in abuse remediation, in probation, for chemical dependencies, in victim advocacy, for the elderly, in prisons, for special needs populations, in court services, in medical/public health, in police services, and for families and communities. Supervision by approved field instructors. An internship of 80 hours is required for three (3) credits. Instructor and student will work together to determine appropriate intern placement. Approval of instructor. (F,W).
-
3.00 Credits
Provides field experience in social welfare agencies, e.g., for children/adolescents, abuse, chemical dependencies, the elderly, special needs populations, criminal justice/probation, medical/public health, and families and communities. Supervision by approved field instructors. Focus is on analysis of the social context of agency, the clients, and staff. An internship of 80 hours is required for three (3) credits. Prerequisite: WGST 275 and permission of the Women's Studies Director is required. (F, W).
-
3.00 Credits
Criminal Justice theorists study of formal and informal mechanisms of social control in specific places, such as bars and night clubs, city parks, schools and shopping malls. Students in this course will learn to apply their theories to practical, real life situations to achieve behavioral changes among individuals and groups toward the objective of effective crime control.
-
3.00 Credits
The United States responded to the events of September 11, 2001 with a series of unprecedented action under the umbrella of homeland security and the ?War on Terror.? This course examines American National security policy by asking a few key questions: What is terrorism and how does it threaten the United States? How has the United States responded to the threat of terrorism over time? What have the consequences of US policy been to date? Finally, how would we balance a desire for security with our desire for civil liberties and ethical action?
-
3.00 Credits
This course will explore the many ethical dilemmas faced by professionals in the legal system. We will pay particular attention to the criminal justice system and to the Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys. Some of the questions we may address are: How should an attorney consider his/her own ethical beliefs when deciding the appropriate course of action in a case? How should a judge consider his/her own ethical beliefs when making a juvenile justice decision? How should a police officer determine the ethical course of action when the law's instructions are ambiguous?
-
3.00 - 6.00 Credits
The psychology internship offers experience in a wide variety of placements dealing with human services. These include programs related to child abuse, crisis intervention, geriatrics, human resources/staff development, mental retardation, probation departments, teenage runaways, substance abuse, and women's issues. The program is designed for juniors and seniors with a concentration in psychology or behavioral sciences and involves training in listening and helping skills. Written permission of instructor required. (F,W).
-
3.00 Credits
This course will incorporate both legal and empirical perspectives to emphasize the dynamic relationship between law, crime, and society. In this course, we will focus on the substantive and procedural criminal law ('law on the books') while we simultaneously focus on empirical research of enforcement, case processing and sentencing in the criminal justice system (the 'law in action'). As a result, we will assess the relationship and differences between what the criminal law says 'on the books' and the criminal justice system 'in action'.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|