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3.00 Credits
3 credits, Fall and Distance Learning (Internet) This course is designed to provide an overview of the scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon of criminal behavior. Criminology theory will be addressed from a sociological perspective and issues related to the measurement and extent of crime. The major schools of thought will be discussed utilizing the founders of each school and supplementing their premises with supporting criminology research.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, Spring This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic concepts, terminology, and techniques germane to criminal justice research. More specifically, the student will become familiar with both qualitative and quantitative research designs, formulating research hypotheses, asking appropriate questions on a survey or interview, data recording, data analysis, and ethical responsibilities. The skills acquired in this course will be beneficial for both the future graduate student and the criminal justice practitioner. Prerequisite: CRJS 240
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course introduces the student to modern American correctional programs. It examines the nature of programs as well as a wide variety of contemporary programs, both inside and outside institutions, judged to be exemplary by correctional professionals. This course provides a broad overview of effective correctional treatment as well as career opportunities in the field. Through research, class presentations and a paper focusing on one effective program per student, this course will expose the student to both the variety and complexity of modern correctional programs. Prerequisites: CRJS 110, 201
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Topics of current interest will be discussed, including police-community relations, police decision-making, and concepts in police practice and administration.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will focus on alternatives to traditional modes of incarceration, current trends in the treatment of offenders and innovations and problems in correctional administration.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will explore some of the salient environmental issues of our day, and analyze the various laws and policies that have been developed to neutralize the various environmental threats. Students will be exposed to such topics as: Methods of Policy Analysis, Sources of Environmental Law and Policies, Land Resources and Environmental Policy, Clean Air and Air Quality, Waste Disposal, and Clean Water and Water Quality. Additionally, students will have an opportunity to an in-depth analysis of an environmental law or policy of their choosing and present their report in class.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, Fall and Distance Learning (Internet) This course of study should help the Criminal Justice student to gather and analyze data gathered in the process of criminal and civil investigations including: investigative techniques, photography, note taking, sketching; identifying, collecting, examining, processing physical evidence; obtaining information, developing, identifying and locating suspects. Prerequisites: CRJS 110, 202
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, Distance Learning (Internet) This course is a generic study of criminal law in the United States, and does not cover any specific federal or state law. Topics include principles of criminal law, principles of criminal liability, complicity, inchoate crimes, defenses, justifications, excuses, crimes against persons, crimes against property, and crimes against public order. (No prerequisites)
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, Spring and Distance Learning (Internet) This course examines the dynamic balance of the power of the government (to enforce the criminal law) against the rights of the individual to come and go as they please without government interference. Additionally, we will study about judicial review, constitutional supremacy, and the protections of state constitutional rights concerning criminal procedure as related to federal constitutional protections. The course will cover the area of search and seizure law, its current status as well as its historical development (through the tracing of case law); the ever-changing laws on interrogation, confessions, identifications, and courtroom procedures such as right to counsel, right to jury trials, the laws governing sentencing and direct and collateral attacks on convictions. There will be a review of the remedies afforded by law to an individual when the government violates the rights its constitution and statutes provides. This is a required Criminal Justice Upper level core course. Recommended prerequisite: Intro to Criminal Law, Intro to Criminal Justice
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, Fall 2008, 2009 and Distance Learning (Internet) This course provides a thorough study of the evidence rules, with specific emphasis on the application of these rules in preparing and presenting evidence. This includes a discussion of the history and approach to the study of evidence; proof by evidence and substitutes; general admissibility tests, including relevancy and materiality; opinion and expert testimony, and hearsay rule; evidence by way of witness testimony, documents, scientific and real evidence; and exclusion of evidence on constitutional grounds. For better understanding of the evidence rules, judicial decisions are cited and some are included in Part II of the required text. This is a Criminal Justice upper level Elective course. Recommended but not required: CRJS 110, 320, 315
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