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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course provides an examination of the latest methods and techniques of photographic documentation of a crime scene, a victim, a suspect, and criminal evidence. Usages of photography in criminal surveillance operations is also addressed. Topics will include the fundamentals of photographing a crime scene from general to specific. Practical exercises will demonstrate methods for documenting various types of crime scenes.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course is designed to teach students the basic concepts of substantive criminal law and its procedural aspects as a means of social control, particularly relating to the constitutionally protected rights of the accused in the criminal justice system. Emphasis will be on the elements of the law and the applicable penalties, as well as the procedures that must be followed in applying the law, and on the court system as a social institution with the interacting roles of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and defendants.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course provides an overall view of the techniques involved in investigating crimes, basic interviewing of victims and witnesses, identifying and questioning suspects, organizing investigations. Specific topics covered are crime scene procedures, searches, surveillance, sources of information, use of scientific aids, recognition of evidence, and ethics in criminal investigations. The course is designed to provide a foundation of criminal investigation procedures and techniques. Emphasis is on a logical scientific approach to crime scene investigations since investigation is in large part a science. Through discussion and hands-on exercises the student practices the application of the scientific method to criminal investigations. Students will be exposed to actual criminal investigations and processes through lectures, slides, videos, and reviews of actual past cases.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course is an entry-level study of fire science, standards, laws, and guidelines for proper fire scene investigation. Topics studied include fire science, arson laws and evidence, organic chemistry, fire investigation methodology, and scientific arson investigation.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Visit www.centenarycollege.edu for current lab fees. Requirements: Sophomore Standing and Criminal Justice Major - Other students may enroll in this course when seats are available and with the approval of the Criminal Justice Program Coordinator. This course will introduce the student to the role of the forensic examiner in the identification, collection, scientific analysis, and court presentation of evidence gathered during the criminal investigation. The student will become familiar with the many applications of science to law, such as: physical fibers; drugs; forensic toxicology; serology; DNA; fingerprints; and forensic science and the internet. The classroom will be supported by hands-on laboratory work which will enhance class lectures and discussions.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course examines law enforcement agencies and their roles, functions, history, and how they developed within the field of Criminal Justice. Additionally, the course gives an overview of the components of the law enforcement profession; namely the evolution of law enforcement, contemporary law enforcement, challenges to the profession, and law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Examines lawreviews the structure and function of law enforcement agencies in the United States at the state, local, and federal levels. Differences between levels, as well as current issues and problems facing law enforcement administrators are emphasized.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course examines patterns of delinquent behavior among youth. The definition and measurement of delinquency, influence of kinship, educational, and other institutions on delinquency, social class and subcultural influences on delinquency, identification and processing of delinquents by official control agencies. Additionally, the course will study the problem of school violence and analyze the correlation and impact of the media, community, and family upon such violence. Identification and intervention approaches to working with out-of-control behaviors will be explored.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course examines those rules of evidence and procedures of particular importance to the operational level of criminal justice agencies. Topics will include the evolution of the laws of evidence, the trial process, hearsay, confessions and admissions, pretrial investigation and identification procedures, expert and lay opinion, scientific evidence, character evidence, and presumptions. Emphasis will be given to the study and evaluation of kinds of evidence, tests of admissibility, competence of witnesses, and privileged and non-privileged communication.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course will examine the topic of organized crime, its emergence in American Society, its activities, and its relationship to other principal social institutions and components of the criminal justice system. It will include a consideration of the historical economic, social, legal, and political events that led to the generation of organized crime. There will be a review of the precedents of organized crime and its history; the relationship of organized crime to federal, state, and local politics; the activities of organized crime figures; policies designed to combat organized crime; and some explanations for the persistence of organized crime. Also included will be a consideration of the new groups and forms of organized crime. In addition, the history of gangs and gang violence in society, gangs as organized crime groups, and the present-day problem of gangs will be examined.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course provides an extensive overview of the principles and concepts of victimology, an analysis of victimization patterns and trends, and theoretical reasoning and responses to criminal victimization. In addition, this course explores the role of victimology in the criminal justice system, examining the consequences of victimization and the various remedies now available for victims. Additionally, the societal problem of domestic violence will be studied. The history of domestic violence in modern America and the societal and legal response to this problem will be examined, as well as the history and current status of the various available Victim Witness Services.
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