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92 courses with the subject CRIM, 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.
CRIM 1000Criminal Justice at Northeastern1
Designed to help students adjust to college life and become fully acquainted with the resources and services offered by the University. Covers various campus services, studies how to access various library resources, and focuses on study skills and time management. Also explores various careers for which the criminal justice major can prepare students.
Reviews the history of the death penalty in the United States from colonial times through the present. Among Western democracies, the United States stands alone in its continued use of capital punishment as a sanction. Examines the contemporary death penalty and the many controversies surrounding its continued use (focusing on U.S. Supreme Court decisions around the constitutionality of the death penalty). Discusses historical and contemporary controversies around the administration of the death penalty including potential innocence, special populations, methods of execution, race and gender biases, costs, deterrence, and international relations.
Introduces students to the history, structure, processes, and philosophies of juvenile justice systems in the United States. Responses to juvenile offenders-ranging from prevention and diversion to institutional corrections and aftercare-are explored in the context of youth policy generally. Focuses on contemporary issues and controversies (system fragmentation, changing conceptions of juvenile offenders, lack of a coherent justice system rationale, racial and gender bias in processing and confinement, and proposals to abolish the juvenile court).
CRIM 2330Punishment in the Age of Mass Incarceration4
Examines the concept of punishment and its form, function(s), and enforcement throughout history, with an emphasis on current sentencing policies and procedures and their impact on the corrections system and correctional overcrowding. Explores the operation, structure, clientele, and issues confronting the institutions, agencies, and programs encompassing the corrections system including jails, prisons, and community-based corrections.
Traces the history, evolution, and organization of the police in the United States. Examines the role of police in society, structure and culture of police organizations, function and activities of the police, and police deviance and accountability. The course objectives are to acquaint students with prior research on the police, examine critically the police as a component of the criminal justice system, explore the complex nature of the profession, and assist those who are considering a policing career to understand the realities of the job.
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity
Involves students in collaborative research under the supervision of a faculty member. Offers students an opportunity to learn basic research methods in the discipline. Requires permission of instructor. May be repeated once for up to 4 total credits.
Surveys the trends, nature, patterns, and causes of criminal violence. Blending sociological and psychological perspectives on violent criminal behavior, focuses on serial and mass murder, sexual predators, youth and school violence, violence among intimates and family members, as well as the impact of media and entertainment violence. The effectiveness of various criminal justice responses are also examined including intervention strategies, police tactics, gun control, incarceration, and capital punishment.
Explores the inner lives of offenders including cognitive, emotional, perceptual, and physiological phenomena. Examines the ecological context of crime, individual and social risk factors for psychological attributes related to offending, how these attributes develop, how they interact with the environment to produce crime, and, most importantly, how knowledge of the psychology of crime can assist in efforts to prevent delinquency or to help offenders desist.
Examines the myths and realities surrounding organized crime. Offers an overview of the nature and extent of organized crime, the factors that contribute to it, as well as the origins and opportunities/motives for criminal enterprises. Discusses the impact of organized crime on U.S. society, both in terms of economy and politics. Also examines the interconnections between organized criminals and legitimate organizations as well as analyzes legislative and policy responses.
Provides students an understanding of what political crime and terrorism is, the nature and extent of the problem historically and currently, as well as prevention efforts designed to combat political crime and terrorism. Students are exposed to several sources of information on political crime and terrorism including the news media, scholarly sources, and video accounts.
Introduces students to a variety of topics and issues in the areas of white-collar and corporate crime. Examines corporate and white-collar offending through the criminal justice and regulatory justice systems, beginning with detection and prosecution through adjudication and sentencing. A variety of special topics are also covered such as definitional issues, the nature and extent of white-collar crimes, measurement, crime types, case studies, and the etiology of offending.
Discusses the definition of common crimes and criminal responsibility. Addresses moral, philosophical, constitutional, and public policy considerations in the use of criminal sanctions to regulate conduct. Requires the knowledge of particular criminal law concepts and the ability to identify them in complex fact patterns and discuss their implications and ramifications. Also requires the application of legal principles to fact situations in a logical way. Case briefing is required.
Analyzes the intersections of substance use with forms of oppression from a social justice harm reduction lens. Presents the complex interactions of biological, psychological, and social determinants of health as they relate to substance use and misuse. Explores the nature, etiology, and treatment of substance use disorders and how they relate to the health and human services field. Offers students an opportunity to obtain the requisite foundation knowledge of, and skills in, evidence-informed substance use prevention, education, and treatment with individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities.
CRIM 3580Sexual Violence: Counseling, Programs, and Policy4
Offers an in-depth examination of sexual violence, its effects, and the resources available to assist survivors. Presents an overview of the criminal justice, medical, legal, and counseling systems and the impact these interweaving systems have on survivors. Offers students an opportunity to develop crisis counseling competency through group exercises and experiential activities.
Examines the role of criminal courts in the United States, the structure and organization of the court system, and the flow of cases from arrest to conviction. Focuses on the key actors in the courtroom-prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and court clerks-and the decision-making processes in charging a person with a crime, setting bail, pleading guilty, going to trial, and sentencing. Addresses prospects for reforming courts.
Examines a broad array of topics, from criminal profiling to the nature of justice and its relationship to social control. Focuses on five major questions: what forensic psychologists do; how psychologists and lawyers look at the world; how the criminal justice system (police, courts, and corrections) and other institutions involved in social control use psychologists; what psychologists think about the criminal justice system and other institutions of social control; and how psychological (and other behavioral science) research can be used to help prevent crime. Because psychologists and lawyers see the world very differently, the course is designed to help facilitate communication and understanding among present and future practitioners in each field, as well as in criminal justice and delinquency prevention generally.
Focuses on in-depth project in which a student conducts research or produces a product related to the student’s major field. Combined with Junior/Senior Project 2 or college-defined equivalent for 8 credit honors project. May be repeated without limit.
Offers independent work under the direction of members of the department on a chosen topic. Course content depends on instructor. May be repeated without limit.
Examines societal security concerns by drawing upon current work in the social sciences, humanities, and physical sciences, as well as research and policy initiatives from public, private, nongovernmental, and nonprofit organizations. Offers students an opportunity to review extensive work on the interconnected nature of different types of risk and on the development of integrated strategies to address threats to security and sustainable growth. Considers the continuing evolution of global social justice, values, and institutions that can support comprehensive security and sustainable growth strategies in the 21st century.
Involves a scientific study of crime victims and public policy responses to them. Focuses on the nature and extent of criminal victimization, the dynamics of victim-offender relationships (e.g., incest and domestic violence), theories of victimization, a historical analysis of the victim’s role in the criminal justice process, the restorative justice model, and the contemporary victim rights and victim services movement.
Focuses on crime and deviance (or lack thereof) among immigrant populations in the United States. Offers students an opportunity to develop an understanding of the historical relationship between patterns of immigration and patterns of crime, to examine the nature and extent of contemporary immigrant crime and victimization, and to assess the social and health consequences associated with crime among immigrant populations and within immigrant communities.
Offers students an opportunity to obtain an understanding of how crime mapping is used by law enforcement agencies. Designed as a practical and hands-on introduction to various crime mapping techniques. Employs a holistic approach to learning how to create and interpret maps, which seeks to provide a much deeper understanding of crime mapping and leave students with a solid foundation of skills that are transferable and scalable.
Offers an in-depth review of the extent, nature, causes, and control of the problem of financial crimes. Through readings, group discussion, and research assignments, familiarizes students with financial crimes such as terrorism financing, money laundering, fraud, corruption, and banking scandals. Examines the nature and extent of offenses committed by corporations, professionals, and public officials in the course of their occupations. Investigates the social, economic, and physical costs of such misconduct. Proposes challenges, techniques, and approaches to effective prevention, detection, investigation, regulation, and sanctioning of financial crimes.
Reviews in-depth the relationship between the characteristics of and social processes in communities and criminal behavior within those communities. Explores the nature of communities and crime through research-policy collaborations. Examines the complementary roles of “communities” and the “places” therein (i.e., individual properties) in shaping crime patterns. Examines how public safety agencies do their job through conversations with local practitioners. Investigates the design and execution of a research study on how community organizations and public agencies interface in addressing “problem properties.”.
Offers an overview of the current understanding of the causes of crime from an interdisciplinary perspective. Focuses on the historical and contemporary theories of crime and causation. Examines the connections between systemic racism, inequalities, and crime and the role of bias in the development of the field and criminological theories. Emphasizes integrating criminological theory and research, assessing the implications of this knowledge base for policies relating to crime control and prevention. Presents and discusses the most current data regarding the nature and extent of crime in the United States.
Offers an overview of the criminal justice process and the important issues confronting the administration of justice, grounding these challenges in empirical research. Focuses on theories that explain the functioning of the justice system and predict its outcomes. Identifies changes in institutional responses to crime and justice issues over time and across cultural contexts. Traces the role of systemic racism and intersecting dimensions of oppression in the historical development of and current policies and practices in the criminal justice system.
Introduces students to the evidence-based paradigm in crime policy. Presents the theory and methods of the evidence-based paradigm, which places systematic research at the center of the policymaking process. Offers students an opportunity to further develop skills in critically assessing leading research findings and policy initiatives in the field of criminology and criminal justice.
Studies the historical and contemporary issues regarding the purpose and function of police in U.S. communities. Focuses on understanding variation in crime-control strategies across ecological settings, which complicates police leaders' efforts to reach balance between appropriately responding to citizen calls for service and proactive policing. Highlights effective policing efforts, which routinely involve bringing officers and community residents together in the hope of solving problems. Critically assesses the role of systemic racism and contemporary police practices that impact police-community relationships.
Examines the rapidly evolving role of technology and artificial intelligence in public policy and the criminal legal system. Introduces the legal processes implicated by AI, describes the constitutional criminal procedure rules at stake, and deepens understanding of these technologies. Studies the fundamentals of how these new technologies work and analyzes their development, implementation, and effects through a social science lens.
Presents an in-depth examination of violence and victimization in the United States. Discusses various forms of violence (structural, institutional, and interpersonal) while taking into consideration the experiences of victims and survivors. Explores the historical and cultural roots of violence. Offers students an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of violence in the U.S., which is designed to provide a foundation to analyze the most appropriate and effective approaches to creating safer communities.
Presents the ways that group processes, peers, and patterns of social relationships can help explain young people’s experiences with delinquency and criminal justice systems. Adopts a social network perspective to deepen the understanding of adolescent crime and gangs and addresses several theories about youth crime and delinquency. Covers key methodological techniques from social network analysis that offer students an opportunity to obtain the tools that can be applied to study various groups, processes, and institutions of interest to juvenile justice scholars (e.g., gangs, schools, neighborhoods).
CRIM 6701Fundamentals of Crime Analysis and Knowledge Dissemination in ArcGIS Pro1
Introduces the basic functionality of ArcGIS Pro, the industry standard in spatial analysis software. Explores the various ribbon panes and data portals that comprise the ArcGIS Pro interface, the theoretical and practical foundations of the crime analysis profession, and maps and other crime analysis products. Examines how to prepare ArcGIS Pro outputs for dissemination to wider audiences.
CRIM 6702Geoprocessing and Data Integration in ArcGIS Pro1
Addresses common geoprocessing and data integration approaches in ArcGIS Pro, the industry standard in spatial analysis software. Explores how to search for geoprocessing tools in the ArcGIS Pro toolbox, run common geoprocessing functions, create and edit GIS data layers, maximize the analytical value of feature attribute tables, and conduct queries of GIS data layers.
CRIM 6703Hot Spot Tracking and Temporal Analysis in ArcGIS Pro1
Addresses hot spot tracking and temporal analysis techniques in ArcGIS Pro, the industry standard in spatial analysis software. Explores how to create and edit raster data, calculate incident counts within vector features, conduct temporal forecasting, and map sequential phases of events.
CRIM 6704Spatial Statistics and Automation in ArcGIS Pro1
Addresses spatial statistics and analysis automation in ArcGIS Pro, the industry standard in spatial analysis software. Explores how to identify statistically significant incident clusters, calculate patterns of feature attribute values, conduct regression analysis, create task processes, and create models to automate geoprocessing workflows.
CRIM 6801Fundamentals of Crime Analysis and Mapping4
Introduces students to the field of crime analysis and conducting crime mapping in the ArcGIS Pro software suite. Offers lectures on theoretical and practical aspects of the crime analysis profession and hands-on exercises using real-world crime and public safety data. Students develop the skills necessary to critically assess crime patterns and potential crime prevention interventions, create crime maps and other crime analysis products, analyze and interpret geospatial and temporal crime data, create and edit GIS data layers, edit and join tables, and query and export GIS data.
Introduces data collection, cleaning, preparation, and documentation. Offers students an opportunity to apply hands-on exercises to data and transform them from their raw state to an analysis-ready dataset. Emphasizes the principles and practice of data management and the development of intuition and logic skills related to the preparation and analysis of data. Introduces readily available and open-source software packages including Microsoft Excel, Python, and R.
CRIM 7001PhD Pro-Seminar in Criminology and Justice Policy 10
Introduces first-year PhD students to the research of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice's faculty. Offers students an opportunity to practice the key components of, and tools for, scholarly production, including formulating research questions and theses, conducting literature reviews and using databases, using citation software; time management and organizational strategies; and writing and presenting scholarship in the field, such as journal articles, conference presentations, and other scholarly outlets.
CRIM 7002PhD Pro-Seminar in Criminology and Justice Policy 20
Continues and builds upon CRIM 7001. Introduces first-year PhD students to the research of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice's faculty. Offers students an opportunity to practice the key components of, and tools for, scholarly production, including formulating research questions and theses, conducting literature reviews and using databases, using citation software; time management and organizational strategies; and writing and presenting scholarship in the field, such as journal articles, conference presentations, and other scholarly outlets.
Studies the theoretical and empirical foundations for fundamental criminal justice process theories. Organized around key theoretical frameworks that explain the activities and outputs of the criminal justice system. Identifies key elements of criminal justice process theories and examines how these components are defined, operationalized, and tested empirically. Offers students an opportunity to develop mastery of the administration of justice process by reviewing research critiquing justice system strategies, functioning, and effects. Students identify and consider changes in institutional responses to crime and justice issues that have occurred over time and across cultural contexts. Traces the role of systemic racism and intersecting dimensions of oppression in the historical development of and current policies and practices in the criminal justice system.
Provides weekly meetings for graduate student lecturers and faculty advisers to discuss common concerns and issues arising during the course of teaching. With input from the Center for Effective University Teaching, covers topics such as syllabus preparation, examination preparation and grading, classroom protocol, and student interaction. Required for all doctoral students teaching a class for the first time.
Offers students an opportunity to develop and improve their academic writing skills while preparing a sole-authored article for potential publication. Requires each student to present a paper in-progress and, through an iterative process of review and revision, have it ready to submit to a journal by the end of the semester. Students comment, orally and in writing, on the papers presented by the other students over the course of the semester. There are regular assignments from leading texts on mechanics and style in writing and reflections on the peer-review and publication processes from multiple perspectives. May be repeated once.
Offers detailed coverage of theoretical criminology and its implications for public policy. Approaches the understanding of crime from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on recent theoretical developments. Studies the connections between systemic racism, inequalities, and crime and the role of bias in the development of the field and criminological theories. Emphasizes evaluating theory in light of empirical research, understanding the implications of theory and research for programs and policies of crime prevention and control, and evaluating current approaches to crime prevention and control.
Offers the student the opportunity to bring individual, concentrated attention to a particular topic as arranged and agreed upon in advance by a faculty member and the student. This option is generally recommended when the student desires a more intensive analysis of a particular subject. May be repeated without limit.
