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3.00 Credits
The rapid increase in transnational organized crime (gangs), commercial drug trafficking organizations, and the impact of crime on national and international policy has created a critical need for law enforcement gang experts. The course provides the student with an introduction to the methods and techniques of gang intelligence analysis and strategic organized crime. It will demonstrate how to predict trends, weaknesses, capabilities, intentions, changes, and warnings needed to dismantle transnational organized crime (gangs). In addition, the course also explores organized crime's influence in the public and private sector industries. The criminal, civil, and administrative methods which are used to control or remove organized criminal influence from these industries are also presented and examined. Finally, outlining the gang cycle: prevention, intervention, and suppression.
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3.00 Credits
Criminal Investigation is a comprehensive and engaging examination of criminal investigation and the role criminal evidence plays in the process. The course focuses on the five critical areas essential to understanding criminal investigations: background and contextual issues, criminal evidence, legal procedures, evidence collection procedures, and forensic science. The course material will go beyond a simple how-to on investigative procedures and analyzes modern research and actual investigative cases to demonstrate their importance in the real world of criminal justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth examination of a serious justice issue: wrongful convictions. We will cover the prevalence of wrongful convictions and the factors that contribute to it, including eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, bias, and faulty forensic science. Students will learn about relevant court cases, understand their application, and be asked to examine the significance of wrongful convictions through a Christian worldview. Students will develop a plan to reduce wrongful convictions.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with a perspective on the role of gender in crime and punishment. There are patterned differences in the roles males and females perform in the criminal justice system, in the crimes men and women commit, and in the crimes that victimize men and women. This course examines these questions from an historical and contemporary perspective, analyzing the changing legal status of women, and the institutional response to women and victims and criminals.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on the causes and impact of domestic violence, as well as strategies for its prevention, for treatment for those who have been abused, and for intervention strategies for abusers. Each week students will focus on a different aspect of family violence including partner abuse, child abuse, sibling abuse, and elder abuse, examining them through the Christian world view. This course will examine how the criminal justice system responds to domestic violence as well, and how that response has changed over time.
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3.00 Credits
Field Experience
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1.00 Credits
Field Experience in Criminal Justice
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to how data is analyzed in the social sciences with the computer. The student will learn how to enter, analyze, and interpret data. Several data analyses (from univariate to multivate) are explored with the computer package of SPSS. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in SOC 220 Social Statistics or an equivalent statistics course in psychology, business, or math.
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3.00 Credits
The development of an empirical research project under the guidance of the instructor. Completed projects will be presented and critiqued by other students and the instructor. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in SOC 318.
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3.00 Credits
Students will apply criminal justice concepts and theories to policy and program change, critique the major foundations and assumptions of the discpline, and examine key justice issues facing the criminal justice system. The course seeks to challenge students to think Christianly about major dilemmas of merging Christian thought and the crminal justice system and policies.
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