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3.00 Credits
Provides students with an understanding of community-based corrections and incarceration alternatives. Students will learn about the history and development of juvenile and adult probation and parole, the pre-sentence investigation report, case management/supervision, and treatment for special populations. Further, current issues including community-based rehabilitation programs, as well as probation/parole careers will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes various aspects of the interview and interrogation processes and techniques: topics include the proper procedures for conducting cognitive interview, self-administered interview, photo line-ups, show-ups, and in person line-ups, kinetic interviewing and interrogation, and false confessions. Discussion is centered upon well-known prior cases. Students will practice skills while watching recorded interrogations.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with an advanced introduction to GIS applications in the social sciences and business. Course topics include social theories of space and place, technological innovations in social science research, social science datasets, demographic analysis methods, presentation, and data dissemination techniques.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the unprecedented closing of state psychiatric hospitals and the corresponding trans-institutionalization of seriously mentally ill offenders in prisons and jails. Current issues including violence and mental illness, mental illness stigma, dual diagnosis, civil commitments, law enforcement response to mental illness, jail processing of persons with mental illness, mental health courts, and mental illness in prison populations will be examined. Also explored are efforts to support offenders with psychiatric comorbidity during reentry.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how crime levels vary across neighborhoods. In addition, this course will examine the role of different socioeconomic, demographic, spatial, and informal social control aspects of neighborhoods in promoting or buffering crime.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the impact of inequity in society by exploring the interactions between socio-economic status, race, ethnicity, gender, and crime, as well as the responses to crime, including patterns of victimization, generational trauma, and how patterns of enforcement and incarceration. Sociological, Criminological, and Psychological theories of group relations as well as hate and identity will be presented.
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3.00 Credits
Examines organized crime in terms of historical antecedents, structure, related theories, and policy issues. The course will also provide students with a detailed analysis of state and federal laws and policies regarding organized crime.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces in-depth topics relevant to the varied fields of criminal justice and aspects of the criminal justice system not otherwise substantially covered in existing courses, or which are of current topical interest. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes a wide range of death Investigation processes and techniques: topics include the processing of death-related crimes, estimating time of death, medical terminology related to death investigations, autopsies, traumatic injuries, and forensic specialties related to death investigation as well as the legal influences on the development of the death investigation process. Discussion is centered upon case management and the specializations needed in order to successfully investigate death scenes.
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3.00 Credits
Examines in-depth the evolution of street and prison gangs, exposing students to the theory and practice of gang membership, interdiction, and prevention. Includes exploration of gang formation and behavior, and the impact of gangs on crime and correctional management. Emphasis is placed on the criminal justice response to both street and prison gangs, and analysis of contemporary research on American gangs. This is an elective course for Criminal Justice majors.
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