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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will examine contemporary issues in law enforcement and delve the social, political, and cultural climate of the most compelling challenges facing policing agencies today. Learners will study issues such as police use of force, policing in a diverse society, recruitment and training, police culture, law enforcement and ethics, technology and policing, and more.
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3.00 Credits
This course will present the student with a detailed understanding of the scope of victimology and the extent of criminal victimization by examining specific crimes types, the impact of crime on victims and society, the role of victims within the criminal justice system, specific remedies, and victim rights and services.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine current issues and social problems relating to the administration of justice in a culturally diverse society. The focus of the course will be on the changing ethnicity of communities and related changes in social and institutional public policy.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the historical development and current status of various forms of transnational crime from the perspective of the international criminal justice community. This course explores the roots and operations of organized crime and how globalization has facilitated the emergence of transnational organized crime in the U.S. and in various regions throughout the world. Particular emphasis is given to issues of drug trafficking, illegal arms trade, money laundering, human trafficking and sex trafficking. This course also examines the current strategies for the containment and control of such activities.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will learn principles of statistical techniques (both descriptive and inferential statistics) with emphasis upon their application in the criminal justice system. Students will be familiar with correlation and regression analysis, probability and sampling theory, estimating population parameters and testing hypotheses.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will learn different approaches and techniques for conducting criminological research. Students will be able to interpret data from research problems and evaluate research designs and their implementation in criminal justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course will discuss terrorism-its structure, causes, and illegal financing and the evolution of domestic and international laws evolving to deal with terrorism and national security.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers various schools of ethical thought and their applications to all aspects of criminal justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine images of crime and criminal justice as portrayed and presented by the mass media including popular media (fictional television show, music, novels, etc.) as well as "news" programming and print media. More specifically, the course will analyze how crime and criminals, and criminal justice systems (police, courts and corrections) are portrayed by the mass media. This course will analyze the media's relationship to criminological theories as well as to criminal justice policies and practices. This course will also examine how gender, race and class are related to the way crime is depicted in the mass media.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on theoretical and contemporary issues involving female practitioners, victims and offenders in the criminal justice system.Students will have the opportunity to become acquainted with and evaluate the political, legal and social issues of crime relating to women. This course will also examine diversity issues. More specifically, this course will examine how gender, race/ethnicity and class are related to the way they are treated in the criminal justice system in the U.S.
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