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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Nature and extent of delinquency: competing explanatory models and theories; evalution of prevention, control, and treatment programs.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the techniques used by social scientists to analyze their data. Students learn descriptive and inferential statistics in conjunction with computer usage. Basic skills and procedures are taught for organizing and describing data, assessing relationships among social variables, and using this information to make inferences about the population.
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3.00 Credits
Mindful of the role played by our judiciary in resolving disputes, setting policy, and otherwise having an impact on everyday life, this course provides a basic examination of America’s courts in terms of their history and development, their structure and organization, their procedures, people, institutions and issues.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed to introduce the student to contemporary policing in a free society. The course will focus on three interrelated topical areas: historical foundation of policing including the definition, evolution, and current role of policing in America; functions of policing including patrol, order maintenance, investigation and community policing; contemporary police problems will be presented including corruption, discretion, deadly force and minority relations.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis and evaluation of contemporary correctional systems; theories of punishment; discussion of recent research concerning the correctional institution and the various field services; the history of corrections in Pennsylvania.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of community treatment in the correctional process; contemporary usage of presentence investigation, selection, supervision, release of probationers and parolees.
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of theories and empirical studies of social deviance, focusing upon the formulation and application of deviant labels, organizations relating to deviance, and deviant behavioral patterns. Special attention given to noncriminal forms of deviance.
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3.00 Credits
A study of white-collar crime, including corporate misdeeds, political corruption, occupational illegalities and upper world deviance. This course will explore the causes, consequences, and criminal justice system response to white-collar crime.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the meaning and character of justice, law and crime in different cultures and countries, and of evolving global standards and patterns of justice, international law, and transnational crime, making specific comparisons between Western and Eastern nations, capitalist and socialist systems, and countries having much crime and little crime.
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3.00 Credits
The national and international organizational structure of organized crime will be analyzed. Primary attention will be given to comparative theories and concepts. The various methods of prosecution, investigation and control will be discussed.
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