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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: GPA of 2.6 in a communication major and permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 The structure, function, practices, policies, and objectives of the criminal justice system. Emphasis on three underlying themes: resource scarcity, discretionary powers, and interdependence or exchange relationships among criminal justice agencies.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Comprehensive introduction to the basic elements of policing in the United States, designed to acquaint students with the most current knowledge about police organizations, police officers, police work, and police problems.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 The correctional process from sentencing to parole. Examines legal and administrative processes used in establishing postconviction remedies, criminal sanctions, and social controls on adult offenders. Emphasis on understanding the structure and function of the American correctional system and the processes in establishing correctional custody and treatment.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or permission of instructor, upper-division status. Analysis of administrative theory and practice in police systems with emphasis on organization and function, and on issues unique to those systems.
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3, 3/0 Patterns of crime in the community and the community's response. Differences between urban and suburban areas, as well as by age, gender, and race. Practices and effects of diversion, community-based corrections, victim-witness programs, crime watch, court watch, restitution, mediation, and disputeresolution programs.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: CRJ 101. The social, political, cultural, and economic forces that shape the historical and contemporary ideologies of crime. The influences of different ideologies of crime on the policies and practices of the criminal justice system.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: CRJ 101, and upper-division status. The structure and function of the juvenile justice system. Statutes and court decisions used to determine jurisdiction over youth. Critical decision-making stages of the juvenile court process. Review of the research concerning the relative effectiveness of treatment and social control programs for youth. Emphasis on the historical, cultural, social, and legal influences governing the processes, priorities, and practices of juvenile justice.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: CRJ 101 and upper-division status. Review of probation, parole, and community corrections; their histories and organizational structures; the nature and effects of the process by which offenders are handled, as well as the dynamics and trends toward change in the field of probation, parole, and community-based corrections.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: CRJ 101. The major contemporary criminal justice systems and their operations under various cultural contexts. The social, economic, political, and ideological forces that have impacted present-day systems. Methodological issues of comparative research.
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