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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to state and local government in New York. It will provide students with an understanding of the day-to-day issues of local and state governmental units, non-governmental organizations, and administrations in New York. Students will gain the knowledge background of the issues such as sanitation, public safety, transportation, housing, and other matters that govern the quality of life in New York State. They will be exposed to their policies, processes, and the frameworks that structure the decision making entities of this city and state.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the application of relevant U.S. and state Constitutional requirements and restrictions on the investigation and prosecution of criminal offenses. Students will also examine the Federal Rules of Procedure and New York Criminal Procedure Law in order to gain an understanding of the standard operating procedures of the criminal justice system. Particular focus will be on the exclusionary rule and other process remedies, the laws regarding arrest and speedy trial, general trial law and processes, sentencing and appeals.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with an understanding of parole and probation as they relate to public safety with an emphasis on community supervision. It is designed to advance concepts of public and personal safety as they influence larger community interests. The course will assist students in comparing conventional practices, determining their effectiveness and reviewing their success at achieving measurable outcomes. Students will develop a working understanding of public safety through the examination of the legal authority, techniques and resources used by parole and probation to maintain social control. They will compare various models of parole, community supervision and probation in jurisdictions outside of New York State. Students will be further challenged to complete group projects that analyze and determine the best, most cost effective, least restrictive means of protecting the public through the use community supervision. The course is designed to facilitate debate about the purpose and role of community supervision, techniques of accountability for monitoring goals and objectives and identification of factors that support or mitig
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine constitutional law emphasizing civil rights and individual liberties, and also their relation to the criminal justice system. The method of teaching will include reading and discussing U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Students will gain the ability to analyze and apply policies derived from critical-analytic reasoning over selected portions of the U.S. Constitution, the ability to recognize important and relevant considerations involved in real-life issues and situations dealing with civil liberties and civil rights, and a working familiarity with key terms, clauses, cases, and historical formations in Constitutional Law.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the philosophy of community policing with an emphasis on crime prevention techniques that ?foster cooperation and mutual respect? between the community and police. It is designed to provide an understanding of the precursors of crime and how residents in partnership with local law enforcement and other stakeholders can work collaboratively to preserve public safety. Furthermore, it will offer opportunities for students to compare crime- fighting techniques in different cities and broaden their knowledge and understanding of the ingredients of successful community policing. Students will analyze problems that both citizens and law enforcement officers confront in urban communities and devise solutions based on the problem solving dimension of community policing. Instructors will introduce students to a technique known as ?environmental criminology?, so that they will develop the kind of analytical skills that will allow them to assess, evaluate and interpret the conditions and circumstances under which crime occurs. In the process, students will understand the importance and need for a neighborhood-oriented approach th
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a semester-long examination of historical, institutional and theoretical background of the contemporary United Nations and its related agencies. It will focus on the participation of selected countries in the United Nations structure and operation with regard to current international problems and issues. Topics include the challenges faced by the United Nations and its related agencies (i.e., International Labor Organization (ILO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), etc. It will explore their bureaucratic structures, management styles and functions.
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3.00 Credits
This course begins with a historical overview of federalism in the United States, as well as a thorough analysis by the Framers? intent on the ?balance of power? between state and federal government. It examines the complex and interdependent relationships amongst the various levels of government and also the relationships among different groups (public, private, and nonprofit). It examines the different funding patterns that exist to develop and implement public programs as well as the service delivery of these programs.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines public policy decision-making in education at the local, state, and national levels and its impact on educational institutions, students, parents, and the community. It will analyze the past and current educational policies in the context of positive and negative effects of specific segments of the population, as well as future or alternative educational/institutional policies and practices that support the achievement of diverse students. Students will not only analyze intended consequences, but unintended consequences as well, in the hopes of providing effective feedback to policymakers and community representatives. This course will also analyze the spillover effects that educational politics have for urban communities.
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3.00 Credits
Public administrators in the field of criminal justice are consistently faced with the task of assisting formerly incarcerated individuals with reintegrating into society. Unfortunately, they consistently fall short of this task and the individual, who is looking forward to reentry, oftentimes fall behind. This course consists of a series of lectures, work group exercises and life-skill presentations designed to support the development of community reintegration plans for individuals leaving prison. It is designed to provide the public manager with necessary skills and elements needed to construct such a plan and explores both the theoretical and practical basis for it. It focuses on providing intensive skills building and training to help students to not only understand the parole discharge process, but to also understand the aspects that bureaucratic agencies must overcome to put these plans in motion. This course also helps to facilitate a greater appreciation of the role played by nonprofit organizations in local and urban neighborhoods, as part of the successful transition of large numbers of people exiting the prison system into urban communities
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with an urban based concentration in the study of the causes and effects of the convergence of mass incarceration, mass unemployment and mass disenfranchisement in inner-city communities. Particular emphasis will be on the perspective of urban communities most impacted by these phenomena, with a focus on the structural impediments which challenge the notion of re-entry (redefined as nu-entry) for thousands of individuals each year. Central to the course will be the study and examination of urban social trends that relate to increases and decreases in crime during different periods. Further, the course explores the impact of these phenomena on the large numbers of men and women returning to urban neighborhoods from incarceration. The course will be dedicated to discussing community based problem solving approaches. The course adopts the position of viewing our local community, region, country and world as a laboratory for analyzing issues related to crime and punishment. It uses a non-traditional approach to provide opportunities to explore the myriad of problems inherent in the transfer of huge numbers of people from incar
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