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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. This course provides an overview of patterns, causes and remedies for the various victimizations of children in the United States and throughout the world (abductions, child abuse, sexual exploitation, etc.).
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. This course introduces students to various types of psychopathology, including state disorders, personality disorders, and organic mental disorders, as they relate to different types of crimes. Students consider the concept of abnormality, as viewed by society and the criminal justice system.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered once a year. This course examines violence in its many forms and provides a theoretical and conceptual foundation for understanding what it is, why it happens, and how it might be prevented or diminished. Structural, institutional and interpersonal forms of violence are examined as are theoretical perspectives focusing on the individual, socio-structural and cultural levels of explanation.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. A comparative study of criminal justice systems derived from the major world legal systems. The relevant background factors, government, laws, law enforcement, courts, corrections, youthful offenders are examined in each representative country studied. Multinational criminal justice organizations and special issues are addressed.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered yearly. This course provides students with a broad survey of the death penalty as a penal sanction and the controversies and issues which surround it. Key topical areas covered are history and foundations, legal landscape, execution and death penalty processes, contemporary issues including innocence, cost, discrimination and deterrence, and perspectives and voices surrounding the death penalty.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered every two years. This course provides an overview of various perspectives (social, psychology, legal, etc.) on the experience of victimization. Explanations of the phenomenon are discussed in the context of responses to various types of victimization.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Study of substantive criminal law including common law sources and elements of various criminal offenses, justifications and defenses.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall and spring. In this course, a broad array of perspectives on law and legal processes in the United States are examined. Students will examine perspectives from the realms of jurisprudence, philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, anthropology and literature among others and will consider the intersection of these realms with law, legal processes, legal evolution and development, and the legal professions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered spring The history, philosophy, policies and problems of the treatment of violators by the police, courts and correctional institutions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall and spring. This course will explore the nature and value of human rights by investigating some major debates over their status and meaning and by examining some of the ways people have tried to secure human rights in practice. Prerequisites: JUST, POSC and INTA majors only. For JUST majors, completion of JUST 200 is a prerequisite.
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