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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the extent and nature conflicts between citizens, groups, and/or participants in social movements exercising their constitutional rights to assemble, protest, and seek redress of grievances and how police have responded through an examination of historical and contemporary events. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the causes behind historic confrontations between police and the community, the challenge facing the police as they attempt to balance the twin professional tasks of protecting the rights of protesters and assuring the peace and safety of all citizens, and how police operations and policies have changed in response to these cases.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a general introduction to the fundamental concepts, characteristics, and operational techniques of private security, its relationship to professional law enforcement, and laws that cover protective security. Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the history, role and function of private security and how it complements and relates to the criminal justice system.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth examination of specific contemporary issues in policing related to recruitment and training, education and retention, innovations in policing strategies, police policies and practices, professionalism and ethics. Outcome: Students will be able to identify and discuss the impact that current issues in policing have on police operations, effectiveness, and police-community relations.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction and overview to the logic, concepts and techniques of social science research and how it is conducted and utilized within the field of criminal justice/criminology. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate the capacity to effectively design, review and interpret research to answer questions within the field of criminal justice and other social science disciplines.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction and overview of statistical analysis methods and techniques used in the study of delinquency, crime and the operation/management of the criminal justice system. Outcome: Students will be able to effectively perform and interpret statistical analyses and identify the appropriate use of these statistics in the analysis of crime and criminal justice system performance.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the structure, administration, and personnel of federal, state, and local criminal courts.. Outcome: Students will be able to describe the organization, jurisdiction and processing of criminal defendants through the courts, definitions of criminal law and court concepts, and be able to articulate the role and challenges faced by court personnel as it relates to the overall operation and goals of the criminal justice system.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth, sophisticated coverage of criminal procedures surrounding investigations, stops, searches and seizure, arrests, interrogations, and procedural remedies. Outcome: Students will be able to identify and articulate the origin, interpretation and application of legal procedures as they relate to matters involving the police, and how these relate to the overall operation and effectiveness of the criminal justice system
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3.00 Credits
The in-depth study of various current issues: race, crime and justice; criminal justice¿the consumer¿s perspective; capital punishment; America¿s prisons; dissent; and the dynamics of democracy.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth examination of the history, process, performance and present day problems of correctional institutions (prisons, jails, and detention centers) in the United States. Outcome: Students will be able to identify and describe the role of institutional corrections in society and the criminal justice system and articulate the connection between theories regarding criminality and the purposes of incarceration that have guided American correctional practice historically and currently.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines current techniques used to develop typologies (profiles) used in the investigation of crimes and to better understand reasons behind crime and the behavior of criminals. Outcome: Students will be able to effectively describe the methods, uses and limitations of criminal profiling from the standpoint of criminal investigation and what role this plays in the effectiveness of the criminal justice system.
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