44 courses with the subject CJ, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CJ 1000Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems and the Administration of Justice3
Fall and Spring Semesters Traces the history and philosophy of criminal justice system and the administration of justice, introducing the causes and patterns of crime and criminal behavior and the ways in which criminal justice institutions have responded in trying to solve these social problems; in the context of social justice and the promotion of human rights. The course is a prerequisite for all criminal justice courses.
CJ 1140Quantitative Data Analysis for the Social Sciences3
Fall and Spring Semesters This course provides students with an understanding of how social science research is conducted and how one systematically evaluates quantitative research reported in the social scientific literature. Traditional data analysis, including the topical areas of measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, sampling distributions, and univariate and multivariate techniques for hypothesis testing are examined. Students learn how to select appropriate statistical tests and how to properly interpret results. Utilizing analysis software such as SPSS or MS Excel, students perform analysis on a variety of social science data. (Same course as SOC 1140). This course meets the Curry Core Quantitative Literacy requirement. 330 / 615
Successful completion of MATH 1000 or demonstrated proficiency on the Mathematics Assessment.
CJ 2000Criminology3
Fall and Spring Semesters Introduces the student to the major theoretical perspectives and issues that characterize contemporary criminal justice thinking about the causes of crime, offenders, and victims/survivors; efforts to prevent crime; and the manner in which offenders are punished and/or rehabilitated. Emphasis will be placed on defining crime and the social contexts in which crime occurs.
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle This course will focus on personal, organizational and institutional ethics within the three major components of the American criminal justice system: law enforcement, the courts, and the correctional system. It will explore the importance of ethical criminal justice decisions, policies and practices to justice, equality, and public trust and confidence in U.S. justice systems. The decisions of law enforcement, criminalist/forensic science, prosecution, defense, courts and institutional and community correction professionals, and practitioners will be analyzed and evaluated using ethical decision-making skills and models. Topics of authority, power, discretion, use of force, human dignity, punishment, public safety versus individual rights, deception, and noble cause corruption will be examined, particularly when professional standards of conduct, agency culture, and societal norms clash. Using case scenarios, the importance of integrity, professional standards and ethics, and law in resolving ethical challenges one may face as a criminal justice professional will be discussed.
Fall and Spring Semesters This course examines the law that proscribes offenses against society, property, and individuals. It will also explore other crime typologies, including crimes against public safety and national security, as well as public morality, and offenses against public health and the environment. It will explore the origins and sources of criminal law in America. Finally, the course will define critical legal elements of crime and commensurate defenses for such crimes.
Fall and Spring Semesters This course will examine how the justice system processes criminal cases, paying special attention to the balance between public order and individual rights. It will explore the origins and sources of criminal procedural rights through precedential case law, paying particular attention to the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth 331 / 615
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle This course will provide an in-depth examination of the investigative techniques and cases encountered by public law enforcement officers, government prosecutors, defense attorneys and private investigators. Students will be trained in the principles and methods of investigations. They will learn valuable skills including witness and suspect identification, interviewing, interrogation techniques. The course will also review interrogation theory, and critique interviewing and interrogation techniques used historically and today.
Fall and Spring Semesters This course critically examines institutional responses to crime and the systems designed to sanction criminal offenders, including the history and practice of corrections for both adult and juvenile populations. Evidence- based best practices in institutional, community-based, and reintegration settings will be explored, alongside correctional practices from other countries, considered through the lens of social justice and human rights.
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle An analysis of urban social systems with a focus on life-styles and change in contemporary American society. The course will center on ethnicity and ethnic groups, using cross-cultural case studies, data on immigrants, and life-styles and family framework. Emphasis will be placed on strategies groups employ to manage and effect political and economic change in an urban ethnic setting. (Same course as SOC 2160). This course meets the Curry Core Diversity requirement.
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle Explores the US immigration system, including past and current legislation, migrant admission categories and the visa system, as well as the role of the Department of Homeland Security in immigration processes. The course will utilize sociological perspectives to examine why people migrate, types of immigrants, and their experiences in that process. The relationship between stereotypes about immigration and crime will be critically examined. Immigration systems in other countries will be contrasted with the US system, including the global impact of out- migration. (Same course as SOC 2175). The course meets the Curry Core International/Global Interdependence requirement.
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle This course will examine the history and application of criminological theory through the portrayal of criminal behavior in film. Students will use readings and weekly viewing assignments to reveal how academic and popular explanations of crime have evolved over the past century. Classic films as well as more current fare will be used in this examination. Special attention will be paid to the reflexive nature of popular films as they are both influenced by and influence public opinion surrounding the causes of criminal behavior. Finally, the course will address how these explanations vary based on race, gender, and the socioeconomic status of those being portrayed.
Fall and Spring Semesters This course will examine law enforcement as a social institution focusing on legal, theoretical, and practical issues related to exercising social control with an emphasis on evidence-based practice, human rights, and ethical standards. Models and trends in policing, including initiatives such as community policing, problem-oriented policing, militarization, and technological advances will be explored. The course will also explore the history of policing in this country, and particularly, its impact on contemporary race relations. Students will also have the 334 / 615
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle This course will examine current theories and research relating to victims and survivors of crime as well as the ways victim advocacy and assistance is provided both within and outside the criminal justice system. Students will examine the nature and extent of victimization including the distribution across people, place, time, and space and discuss risk and protective factors for those who are targets of crime. Students will critique how society and the criminal justice system prioritize certain types of victimization or classes of victims over others as well as the role of race, social class, age, gender, and other demographic factors in crime victims’ access to legislators and media outlets. Careful attention will be paid to critiquing victim-blaming arguments/claims. Students will examine the historical role of victims and survivors in the criminal justice process as well as the emergence of the Victims’ Rights Movement. Finally, students will explore victim advocacy and assistance services for survivors of crime.
CJ 1000 or any Curry Core Social Science Breadth course.
CJ 2340Developing a Foundation for Success: Wellness, Internships and Employment3
Fall and Spring Semesters This course is about you—your interests, values, personal qualities, and work interests/workstyle—and the skills and experiences you want to develop to achieve your academic and career goals. You will use internship search strategies, evaluate internship opportunities of interest to you, and go through a mock internship application process by creating a professional resume, cover letter, and reference list. You will complete a career interest assessment, explore, and assess career options, and engage in career research and analysis of required skills, experience, career pathways, occupational outlook and earnings estimates to shape your career goals and plans. This course may not be used to fulfill requirements for the SOC or CJ minor. (Same course as SOC 2340). This course is a prerequisite requirement in order to complete a for-credit SOC/CJ Internship.
Fall and Spring Semesters Examines how cultural and individual human differences intersect with the criminal justice system. The course will explore the interaction of the criminal justice system with issues of race, gender, age, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, physical and mental disabilities, culture, religion, and other human differences. The focus will be on how human differences impact all people within the criminal justice system, including victims, offenders, and service providers and how the criminal justice system responds to and/or should respond to human differences, with an emphasis on providing positive solutions and social justice. (Same course as SOC 2350). 335 / 615
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle This course explores the effect of the internet on the law, and of the law on the internet. We will examine how network technologies can disrupt existing forms of power, laws, markets and social norms in unexpected ways, creating new centers of norms and power. The course will examine how technology brings chaos as well as unexpected order. Specific topics to be discussed and examined include online jurisdiction, cyber-speech, trolling and bullying, privacy and anonymity, defamation, online intellectual property disputes, service provider liability, social networks, cyber security, cyber war, cybercrime and net neutrality.
Fall and Spring Semesters This course will critically examine qualitative and quantitative research methods used by social scientists to study the social world. The ways in which social scientists study societies and social issues are carefully examined. This course will challenge students to think more critically about the science of research methods and to become critical thinkers and examiners of data about social life. (Same course as SOC 2600).
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle This course focuses broadly on the relationship between psychology and the legal system, with an emphasis on how behavioral science research and the practice of psychology are utilized in criminal justice settings. This course includes an array of topics such as criminal investigation, evidence and expert testimony in the courtroom, trial and punishment, and correctional assessment and treatment. The class examines inherent differences between how lawyers and psychologists approach legal issues; the field of forensic psychology and the role these professionals have in the justice system; and what behavioral science research can tell us about the criminal justice system (police, courts, and corrections) and other institutions involved in social control. This class also incorporates discussion of the importance of diversity and use of ethical practices. 337 / 615
Total: 15 Forensics Investigations (Minor) FORENSICS INVESTIGATIONS (MINOR) Students minoring in Forensics Investigations (not to be confused with Forensic Science) will be introduced to the various techniques, tools and scientific tests used to investigate crime along with the application of these elements in a court of law. The minor focuses on several areas of forensics, from digital and financial evidence collection to crime scene evidence and laboratory processing and evaluation. Students will learn and understand the various ways law enforcement, mental health professionals, accountants, computer technicians, and scientists collect, process and evaluate evidence for use in legal proceedings. Students majoring in the areas of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Psychology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Accounting and the Natural Sciences will enhance their professional tool belt with a minor in Forensics Investigations. 224 / 615
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle Terrorism incorporates many of the current issues in criminal justice, including but not limited to criminal definitions and origins, public safety versus individual liberties, limitations on governmental responses through the rule of law, the application of the death penalty, racial profiling, cooperation amongst domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies, and transnational crime. This course provides an overview of terrorism as it relates to the history, origins, ideologies, goals, dynamics, and strategies/tactics of terrorist groups and individuals, as well as government responses to terrorism, both at the domestic (federal, state, and local) and international level. The structure and dynamics of terrorism and counterterrorism are explored through the rule of law. Students are required to demonstrate their ability to research a combined terrorist/criminal justice problem, profile, or scenario and argue for an effective counterterrorism policy.
CJ 3008Seminar: Selected Topics in Criminal Justice3
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle Selected criminal justice and justice administration themes will be explored in a seminar format.
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle Examines the origin, development, adaptation, and enforcement of the law in social and cultural contexts, critically considering the role of law as an impediment to or catalyst of social change. The course examines law in our everyday life, including its’ relevance to economic and privacy issues, as well as how law on the books compares to law in action. This course also examines the role of legal actors: judges, attorneys, lobbyists and other advocates, and their relationship to policymaking, as well as in facilitating social and cultural change. 338 / 615
CJ 3212Community Policing: Case Studies and Problems Solving3
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle Advanced level course designed to develop and apply problem solving skills and processes to specific community problems, such as drug trafficking and youth violence, and consider quality of life issues in various settings. Case studies will evaluate existing community policing strategies and suggest new models of intervention.
CJ 2212 or permission from instructor or Department Chairperson.
CJ 3300Justice and Human Rights Advocacy3
Fall and Spring Semesters Explores victimization and human rights violations globally and considers the strategies of human rights advocacy. The course also will focus on the role of victims/survivors, justice officials, and human rights advocates, as they respond to such atrocities as genocide and human trafficking, and attempt to mitigate these problems and promote social justice and human rights. Students will explore retributive, rehabilitative, deterrence-based, and restorative models of justice and consider each from an ethical perspective, in particular how each incorporates or affects the role of the survivor. Alternative resolution models, such as arbitration and mediation, will be examined. This course meets the Curry Core International/Global Interdependence requirement.
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle This course will present the origins, philosophies and evolution of the juvenile justice system in the U.S. Students will evaluate various theories of youth involvement in delinquent behaviors, status offenses and life-course criminal behavior with an emphasis on their experiences with the cultural and social environment. Individual, familial, and social influences on youth experiences in the justice system will be investigated. Students will examine how behaviors come to be labelled deviant/delinquent, compare and contrast the juvenile and adult justice systems, examine contemporary Supreme Court decisions regarding the juvenile justice system, discuss issues of youth waivers to the adult justice system and legal safeguards for the protection of juvenile rights in the system. An analysis of the spectrum of treatment and intervention strategies for court involved youth will include incarceration, community service, probation, alternative sentences and restorative justice.
CJ 3450Criminal Justice Experiential Learning (Internships)1-15
Requires students to work weekly in field placement and to participate in a seminar or conferences with faculty supervisor. Field experience sites are selected jointly by the student and instructor. This course meets the Curry Core Active Learning requirement. And, no outstanding “Incomplete” in a previous field placement. CJ 3450SM - Criminal Justice Internship Seminar - 0 credits This course is required for all students doing an internship in Criminal Justice settings and must be taken during the semester of the internship. Students must arrange an internship with the guidance of the Sociology and Criminal Justice Internship Coordinator. In addition to spending time each week in the field supervised by placement personnel and the faculty member/ course instructor students will integrate that learning with weekly on campus course meetings and assignments, discussing practice based learning, reviewing their field experiences, and documenting their learning.
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle This course examines the etiology of bias motivated crimes, characteristics and the social ecology that nurtures its existence and persistence. In addition, the course will discuss: various sociological and criminological theories in an attempt to understand the etiology of the violent behavior, its consequences on individual, groups and community; the evolution of bias crime laws and policy in the United States; and the social justice aspect of the topic.
Fall and Spring Semesters The Capstone Seminar in Criminal Justice reviews the major theories and some of the current theoretical controversies with the goal of integrating theory, research, practice, and social policy analysis. Students are expected to demonstrate their competence by articulating criminal justice theory, comprehending the various methods used in generating and analyzing criminal justice data, and applying this knowledge to criminal justice policy through various written assignments. The course will also help the student prepare for their own professional journey post-graduation, whether that be transitioning to work in the field, professional advancement, and/or pursuing graduate school.
