15 courses with the subject ACG, 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.
This course compares the leading theories of criminology including social, psychological, economic, and legal, with emphasis on the policy of sentencing. Both the theoretical and practical aspects of major correctional philosophies will be studied.
This course addresses the role of modern police within the larger community. It will assist students in enhancing their knowledge of the relationship between community welfare and law enforcement. Some topics to be discussed include community dynamics, barriers between the criminal justice system and the community, cultural sensitivity and inter-relating with cultural groups, conflict management, and communication.
Beginning with such fundamental questions as “What is crime?†and “What is punishment?†this course is designed to engage students in critical thinking about the justice system and their own lives and to draw connections between processes within the criminal justice system and structures in the wider society.
How do we explain continuing inequality in the US? What has been and is the role of law in creating, maintaining, and reducing inequality? This course examines different forms of inequality, including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and disability and the use of law for civil rights and social change.
This course will explore some of the broader social issues associated with juvenile crime, criminality, and criminal behavior. Using accepted definitions of crime and delinquency, the course will examine causes and explanations of juvenile delinquency, as well as possible modes of prevention, control, and correction.
A feature of American government is its specification of individual liberties. Privacy, due process, equal protection, property rights, prohibition of racial and gender discrimination, freedom of expression and of religion, are among those provisions of the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment that produced extensive litigation and landmark decisions.
This course provides an introduction to issues in law and society and to the American legal system. It deals with theories of what law is and what it does and examines the place of law in promoting or limiting social change.
This course examines the institutions, principles, and procedures of the American system of criminal justice at the federal and state/local levels. It focuses on the role and powers of the police and prosecutors, as well as constitutional protections afforded suspects through both the constitution and Supreme Court rulings.
This course is designed to give students an overview of “terrorism”, beginning with definitions, typologies, histories and theories. Students will also assess specific societal responses (e.g., Homeland Security), the economic and political costs of such responses (e.g., civil rights), and the possibility of preventing terrorism in the future.
2.00 to 4.00 Computer Forensics will introduce the student to the need for computer forensics; computer crimes; applicable laws; and the basics of computer forensics and investigations. Will also provide an overview of computer forensics and trends and methodologies currently being used in the fields of digital investigations, data recovery, and computer forensics.
This course is an introduction to forensic techniques in the crime laboratory and the impact of scientific evidence on the justice system. Case analysis, briefs, and simulations will focus on the issues of admissibility, relevance, and materiality of evidence. Traditional as well as emerging forensic sciences will be discussed, to include forensic psychiatry, forensic pathology, ballistics, social science, and questioned documents.
This course provides students with an introduction to the history and development of the American correctional system. Some topics to be covered include correctional systems and the rights of prisoners; Supreme Court decisions and appellate review; community corrections, such as halfway houses; types of prisons; and the future of the correctional enterprise.
This course examines how organized crime affects labor, politics, consumer services, contemporary society, business, finances, and local, state, and federal governments.
This course reviews psychological theories of criminal and aggressive behavior and give students an understanding of the etiology of psychopathy. Theoretical viewpoints from psychodynamic; cognitive; behavioral; social learning; and developmental psychologists are discussed. An overview of psychology of incarceration, juvenile offenders, gangs, serial murder, and sex crimes is addressed.
This seminar is intended for criminal justice seniors nearing completion of their major course studies. It serves to synthesize knowledge gained within the curriculum, with a focus on concepts, theory, and research methods, and to prepare the student in transitioning from undergraduate degree program to employment or graduate/law school studies.
Source: Adelphi University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
