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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will deal with the modern criminal justice system as it has developed through time in cities. Special attention will be given to the urban problems that led to the creation and evolution of the professional police, criminal courts, and penal institutions. Emphasis will be placed upon the specifically urban influences (demographic, geographic, political, economic, and social) that originally shaped and continue to mold the criminal justice system.
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Analysis of how the U.S. criminal justice system has affected the use of drugs and treatment for drug abuse, and examination of how the federal, state, and local police organizations plan, implement, and coordinate policies.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of law in relation to a variety of urban issues. It begins with an overview of legal processes within the American constitutional system. It then proceeds to address the relationship of law to issues of welfare, housing, racial discrimination, education, and urban crime.
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3.00 Credits
The operation of the criminal justice system in situations of domestic and family violence. Theories dealing with the sources of domestic violence will be reviewed. The focus will be on the operation of those parts of the criminal justice stystem.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the process of health policy-making at the city, state, and federal levels of government, from agenda-building through policy formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation of health policies. The nature of the relationships among executives, legislators, bureaucrats, judges, and other participants will be analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course addresses the medical, epidemiological, and psychosocial issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic. It places the epidemic within a social, political and policy context, examining the impact of the AIDS epidemic upon the U.S. urban setting, including a specific analysis of the medical, public health, legal, and housing institutions.
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3.00 Credits
This course will deal with infectious diseases in American cities over time. Severe epidemics of contagious disease are a creation of civilization, requiring as they do the large population that crowded cities provide. The course will deal with a number of devastating diseases (among them tuberculosis, cholera, syphilis, hepatitis, polio, and AIDS) and their effect on city life. The social construction of disease and the changing cultural meanings of different diseases will be dealt with.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the threat posed to America's population by the emergence of new or recently discovered infectious diseases. It will explore the causes of their recent appearance and the necessary public policy changes that could prevent their spread.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines our government's efforts to address social-economic problems relating to poverty. After an historical overview of the development of welfare programs in this country, the course focuses on measures taken to combat poverty in the contemporary context. Issues such as the relation of welfare to work, teen pregnancy, single-parent households, and immigration are addressed. While the course primarily emphasizes basic income maintenance, it provides a survey of the network of social welfare policies and programs that have been developed in recent years.
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