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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the criminal justice process from prosecution through appeal. The organization and operation of felony and misdemeanor courts are examined. Topics include prosecutorial decision-making; plea-bargaining; judicial selection; and the conduct of trials, sentencing, and appeal.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to principles of management and system theory for the administration of criminal justice agencies. Credit not given for J310 and V270.
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3.00 Credits
Theory of investigation, crime-scene procedures, interviews, interrogations, surveillances, and sources of information; collection and preservation of physical evidence; investigative techniques in specific crimes.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the history, evolution, and organization of policing in the United States. Emphasis is placed on such major contemporary issues as the police role, discretion, use of force, corruption, accountability, and community policing.
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3.00 Credits
The broad range of physical evidence developed through the investigative process, and methods of identifying and establishing validity and relevance through forensic laboratory techniques.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the historical development of the American correctional system; the study of administration of local, state, and federal corrections programs, including jail, probation, community corrections, and prisons. Includes the study of punishment rationales, current correctional policies, and possibilities for reform.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of private policing and security; courts and adjudication; and corrections. Includes legislative and ethical issues and the economics of criminal and juvenile justice privatization. Principles of loss prevention, protection of assets, relationship between public and private services, and current issues in privatization will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Selected contemporary topics in criminal justice. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of threats to public safety and of governmental response at various levels to those threats. Treatments of such areas as transportation and highway threats, occupational safety and health, criminal threats, emergency and disaster planning, consumer protection, and fire control and suppression. Discussion of techniques to identify and measure risk, the acceptability of risk, and governmental attempts to control risk.
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6.00 Credits
Open to interested students who qualify upon approval of the faculty. Students may be placed with various criminal justice agencies for assignment to a defined task relevant to their educational interests. Tasks may involve staff work or research. Full-time participants may earn up to 6 credit hours.
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