67 courses with the subject CRJC, 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.
CRJC 200Introduction to the Criminal Justice System3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey course designed to familiarize students with the functions, structure, and organization of the agencies that are responsible for the administration of justice. Specifically, the course introduces students to the institutions and processes of law making and enforcement, the judicial system, corrections and the juvenile justice system.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the history and philosophy of local, state, and federal law enforcement entities in the U.S. with emphasis on the interdependence of law enforcement and other components of the criminal justice system. The course also examines the roles of the police in the administration of justice and the critical issues that affect law enforcement in contemporary society.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of procedural aspects of the legal process and administration of justice including constitutional rights, participants in court processes, rules of evidence and the exclusionary rule, and expert testimony.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey course designed to provide an overview of the juvenile justice system, with particular emphasis on the agencies, institutions, procedures, law, programs, and philosophies that guide the administration of juvenile justice.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on the structural outlay and philosophy of the court system, with special emphasis on criminal law and procedure, court processes, and structures, constitutional guarantees, the trial process, and the roles of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and juries.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An in-depth theoretical perspective of the social, legal, and ethical issues which gave rise to the development of contemporary strategies of corrections in the community including programs such as probation, parole, other alternatives to incarceration, intermediate sanctions, and diversionary programs
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A course focusing on the various types of evidence used in both civil and criminal proceedings with emphasis on the rules governing the admissibility of evidence and the procedures for handling evidentiary issues in the courtroom.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Emphasis is placed on the development of writing skills required for careers in criminal justice, including various forms of correspondence, interoffice memos, informal reports, minutes of meetings, summaries, briefings, and presentations; proofreading, revising, and editing; writing for culturally diverse audiences; and criminal justice terminology.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An involved philosophical analysis of criminal law principles and concepts focusing on both the procedural aspects and the substantive elements of the various crimes, criminal court decisions, and the practical application of such principles and concepts in the courtroom.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course exposes students to different theoretical perspectives in the study of crime and criminal justice. It acquaints students with various explanations that have been offered in an effort to understand criminal behavior and criminal justice practices within social contexts.
CRJC 305Race, Class, and Gender in Criminal Justice3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A comprehensive examination of the concepts of race, class, and gender as determinants of the structure and function of the American criminal justice system, including the relationship between race, class, gender, and crime; issues of race, class, and gender discrimination; and the ideological and political debates that both integrate and segregate theories of race, class, gender, and crime.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Management and Administration: A theoretical course focusing on the organization, management, and administration of local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies with emphasis on how the structure and functions of such agencies affect the administration of justice.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course covers the various methods of conducting quantitative and qualitative research. The emphasis is on research design, research instrument construction, data analysis, and reporting of results.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is an overview of the various statistics techniques used in criminal justice research. Topics include measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, t-test, chi-square, regression, and correlation analysis. Emphasis is on testing hypotheses and interpretation of statistical results.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This survey course will address the phenomenon of drugs and crime. Topics to be examined include the nature of drugs, drug use, and addiction; past and present-day trends and patterns in drug availability and use; theories of drug use and addiction; the theoretical and empirical relationship between drugs and crime; drug prevention and treatment programs and their effectiveness; and a review of drug control policies in the United States and selected other countries.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the critical issues facing police officers and administrators in relation to police community relations in a diverse society, with particular emphasis on police history and role in society, discretion, and 737
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will explore the relationship between media and crime. Students will critically analyze various forms of media through the use of content analysis and case studies. The overall focus will be the social construction of perceptions of criminals, victims, and the criminal justice system, as well as how the media is used as a tool of social control and how it affects criminal justice policy.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey course designed to provide an overview of white collar crime, with an emphasis on the criminal and/or unethical or harmful acts of the rich and powerful. Specifically, the course explores the various types of white collar crimes, the characteristics of the offenders, the theories attempting to explain these acts, and the harm caused by them.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will examine criminal justice leadership, discretionary decision-making in criminal justice, critical incident performance, and the effects of stress on criminal professionals. Students will explore the history, major trends and theories, and implementation and practice of leadership principles in the criminal justice professions.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Theory and Practice: This course examines crime prevention in theory and in practice. This survey course will review theories of crime and justice with specific implications for efforts to prevent crime. Students will trace the evolution of crime prevention efforts. Most importantly, the course will review crime prevention strategies, ranging from those designed to protect the individual to those designed to protect society at large. A particular focus will be placed on techniques linked to the environmental criminology and situational crime prevention perspectives.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A theory-based comparison of the American criminal justice system with a number of selected criminal justice systems from around the world. Emphasis will be placed on how the social organization of a specific society affects the definition of crime and the administration of justice.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Students will examine one theme in-depth that is not addressed in great detail in another course. Topic will change based on the interests and expertise of the instructor and a student may retake the course to a maximum of nine credits with change of topic.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This is a survey course designed to give students an overview of criminal law, civil law, and legal issues as they related to sex and sexuality. This class considers why certain behaviors come to be legal or illegal, how laws that regulate sex and sexuality affect our culture, and how criminal justice professionals confront 739
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A course in which students examine theories, policies, and best practices surrounding efforts to create sustainable justice in communities that are hard hit by traditional criminal justice practices.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Restorative justice, in some form or another, has been practiced most likely since the dawn of humanity. Harms create obligations, the fulfillment of which offers the possibility of healing for all. The purpose of this course is to expose students to the discourse on justice that prioritizes healing.
332) This course teaches students the various methods of collecting and analyzing data, with emphasis on research design, research instrument construction, data analysis, and reporting of results. The course includes a lab that involves computerized data analysis. Prerequisite: One of the following: SOCI 331, PSYC 233, BADM 216, or STAT 202.
This course exposes students to different theoretical perspectives in the study of crime; it acquaints students with various explanations that have been offered in an effort to understand criminal behavior. Particular attention will be paid to the idea of crime as a social phenomenon.
CRJC 429Internship and Career Preparation in Criminal Justice3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course familiarizes students with issues related to internship and career preparation in the field of criminal justice. Students will learn about issues related to the criminal justice internship experience, such as finding an internship, preparing for the internship interview, and professional and ethical conduct in the criminal justice internship setting. Students will explore a wide range of careers in criminal justice and learn information regarding processes involved in successfully pursuing and advancing in careers in criminal justice. Successful completion of this course is a prerequisite for enrolling in CRJC 430, Internship in Criminal Justice.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides students with the opportunity to synthesize theory and practice in a supervised work environment in a criminal justice agency, with the students' progress and performance on the job monitored 740
Criminal Justice Electives: 27 Credits Select nine from the following: (but not if used to satisfy c (18 hours of major electives must be 300-400 level courses)
CRJC 200 and CRJC 201 and CRJC 215 and CRJC 220 and CRJC 304 and CRJC 314 and ( CRJC 315 or POLI 240 or PSYC 233 or SOCI 331 )
CRJC 460Researching Criminological Theories3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This is an advanced course emphasizing the research literature on major theoretical perspectives in the field of criminal justice. Students will assess the methods used, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of those approaches. This course will be a critical evaluation of the research methods that generate data, bridging the gap between theory and research in the study of crime and deviant behavior. Students will examine the processes and challenges of conducting theoretically directed research with a focus on sampling, measurement, and analytical issues.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course offers a historical study of societal responses to crime and disorder in the United States. The course includes a review of historical research on police, courts, corrections, criminal law, social movements, social disorder, and related issues.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This graduate course offers an overview of the three major components of the criminal justice system, including: (a) policing, (b) courts, and (c) corrections. It will provide a review of theoretical perspectives for understanding how economic, political, or ideological forces shape systematic and officially-sanctioned responses to crime. Students will be expected to become familiar with important classic and contemporary contributions to the scientific literature covering policing, courts, and corrections.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course emphasizes the application of administrative theories and management principles to criminal justice organizations and contexts. These include Classical and Neo-Classical Organizational theories, and the nature, structure, processes, individuals, groups and their behaviors within criminal justice organizations.
CRJC 520(3-3-0) Criminological Theory I: Classical and Positivist Theorists: This course is the first of two
required graduate seminars in criminological theory. The course begins with a survey of the history and application of criminological thought, providing a foundation for analysis of the assumptions, elements and policy implications of theories of crime and criminal justice. As the first of two graduate theory seminars, this course focuses on theories within two major paradigms in criminological theory: Classical and Positivist Criminology. We explore the perspectives on crime and criminal justice that permeate public discourse on crime and justice and critique the formal criminological theories to which these everyday perspectives are linked. We consider whether existing research provides support for widely accepted theories and we examine the criminal justice policies associated with different criminological theories. Students are guided in the process of formulating their own research questions and policy proposals from the criminological theories that they find most compelling.
CRJC 530(3-3-0) Criminological Theory II: Critical Criminology: This course is the second of two required
graduate seminars in criminological theory. The course begins with a review of the history and application of criminological thought, which provides a foundation for continued analysis of the assumptions, elements, and policy implications of theories of crime and criminal justice. We begin our deeper analysis of theories where the first theory seminar left off, with the third major paradigm in criminological theory: Critical Criminology. We explore theories of crime and criminal justice that are found in public discourse and critique the criminological theories to which these everyday perspectives are linked. We consider whether existing research provides support for specific theories and we examine the criminal justice policies associated with different criminological theories. Students are guided in the process of formulating their own research questions and policy proposals from the criminological theories that they find most compelling. Prerequisite: CRJC 520 CRJC 540 (3-3-0) Research Methods in Criminal Justice: This course provides students with the fundamental tools for evaluating, designing and implementing basic and applied empirical research within the area of criminal justice. The association between theories and research methods used in the study of criminal justice is explored through a variety of related data sources. Topics covered include: the principles of research design; problems of inference; survey design; and basic methods of data analysis. Students will obtain hands-on experience in project design and data analysis. CRJC 550 (3-3-0) Statistical Applications in Criminal Justice: This is a required course which provides a foundation for the use of statistical methods in criminal justice and public affairs research. It will review fundamentals of research, showing the interplay between the research, the statistical method, and the interpretation. The course includes a lab that involves computerized data analysis. CRJC 570 (3-3-0) Race, Crime and Justice: The course will examine research exploring the involvement of racial minorities in crime and the treatment of racial minorities by the criminal justice system. The course will also provide an in-depth examination of the inequalities within the criminal justice system and its relationship to structural inequalities within the wider society. This course will examine the theoretical and empirical debates on the disparities in law and justice based on race and class. Topics include: wrongful convictions and racial prejudice; the war on drugs and the politics of race. Case study materials focus on current debates of seminal issues.
CRJC 531Advanced Seminar in Criminological Theory3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course in an advanced graduate seminar in criminological theory. It is designed for students who have had prior graduate level exposure to criminological theory and research methods, and who want to deepen their understanding of criminological theory and the relationship between theory and research methodology. Students are guided in the process of conducting in-depth analysis of selected theoretical perspectives on crimes and criminal justice and in critically evaluating the conceptual, logical, and empirical adequacies and inadequacies of the selected theories. In addition, significant attention will be given to helping students develop theory driven research ideas that they may pursue as master's thesis projects or as dissertation projects, for those who intend to pursue doctoral level work in the future.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides students with the fundamental tools for evaluating, designing and implementing basic and applied empirical research in the areas of crime, victimization, criminal justice practice, and related issues.
CRJC 550Statistical Applications in Criminal Justice3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on the analysis of quantitative data in criminal justice and criminology. It will review fundamental methodological concepts (including measurement, variables, unit of analysis), and teach strategies for presenting data patterns graphically, describing distributions and relationships through summary statistics, and drawing conclusions about sampled populations using inferential statistical methods. Software for statistical analysis will be used. 186
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will examine the theoretical and empirical debates on the disparities in crime, law, and justice that are linked to race and ethnicity (including their intersections with other social statuses, such as class, gender, etc.). The course will also provide an in-depth examination of the inequalities within the criminal justice system and its relationship to structural inequalities within the wider society.
CRJC 580(3-3-0) Females, Crime and Justice: Theory and practice have focused on perceptions of male scholars
and practitioners and discussions about male offenders. It was not until the 1970s that crime affecting women and girls and more serious inclusion of women criminal justice scholars and practitioners was given more attention. This course will focus on female experiences as offenders, victims, and workers within the criminal justice system. Additionally, we will explore treatment programs that have been proposed to decrease female-perpetrated crime in both a historical and contemporary context. CRJC 590 (3-3-0) Ethics in Criminal Justice: This course is an intensive examination of different ethical and moral issues/dilemmas that we face within and outside of criminal justice systems when dealing with people who either work for or come contact with the system. Emphasis will be on exploration of ethical/moral issues related to crime, criminal justice practice, education, and research.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is an intensive examination of ethical and moral issues/dilemmas linked to the criminal justice system. Emphasis will be on exploration of ethical/moral issues related to crime, criminal justice practice, education, and research.
CRJC 600(3-3-0) Corporate and Government Crime: Study of criminal behaviors by corporation and government
leaders, with an emphasis on events impacting the people of the United States. The course explores the nature and extent of these criminal behaviors, the causes associated with them, their harm to people and societies, and strategies to reduce the number of events and/ or their harmful impacts.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course examines the police role, law enforcement policy, police organization, personnel issues, management, and operations, as well as coordination and consolidation of police service, police integrity, and community relations.
CRJC 610(3-3-0) Organizational Change in Criminal Justice: Organizational change is inevitable, and often
necessary. For criminal justice organizations, often change is badly needed and/or poorly managed. In this course, several key theoretical approaches to guiding organizational change will be examined and applied to criminal justice organizations. Readings will focus on helping recognize the need for change, making change-resistant organizations into learning organizations, and how to lead the change efforts, as well as offering examples of theoretical application of these ideas to criminal justice organizations. CRJC 620 (3-3-0) Juvenile Delinquency and Justice: This course will take a critical approach in examining different issues related to juvenile delinquency and justice. Theoretical aspects of juvenile deviant/delinquent behavior, and societal reactions and institutional responses to young law violators will be addressed. Finally, different prevention approaches and strategies will be evaluated.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will take a critical approach in examining different issues related to juvenile delinquency and justice. Theoretical aspects of juvenile deviant/delinquent behavior, and societal reactions and institutional responses to young law violators will be addressed. Finally, different prevention approaches and strategies will be evaluated.
CRJC 630(3-3-0) Communities, Justice and Social Change: This course is a graduate seminar on communities
justice and social change in the contemporary urban context. In this course, we give focused attention to "hard-hit" communities, i.e. communities where both crime and criminal justice activity exist in concentrated levels. We consider the impacts of crime on neighborhoods and communities, and we also examine the impacts that traditional criminal justice practices have on these communities. Strategies for empowering local communities to improve the quality of life and the quality of justice in the urban environment are explored.
CRJC 640(3-3-0) Qualitative Methods in Criminal Justice: This course provides an introduction to qualitative
research methods and how they are often applied in the study of crime and justice. Qualitative methods includes a wide variety of challenging techniques such as participant observation, ethnography, interviewing, field interviews, historical analysis, case studies, and textual analysis. The course will explore these various techniques as well as the uses, strengths and limitations of qualitative research. In addition, the course content will include designing, conducting, and writing up qualitative research. Finally, the process of grounded theory construction is explored. Prerequisite: CRJC 540, Research Methods in Criminal Justice.
CRJC 650(3-3-0) Program Evaluation in Criminal Justice: This course will familiarize students with key
components of program evaluation in criminal justice organizations and contexts. This course will combine aspects of social research methodology and applied research techniques and skills to the context of the practice of criminal justice. Students who successfully complete this course should expect to be able to perform evaluative services to their current and/or future agencies. Prerequisites: CRJC 540 and CRJC 550. CRJC 660 (3-3-0) Current Issues in Victimology: Victims’ issues largely have been ignored within the criminal justice system and the field of criminal justice academia until recently (the last 30 years). As crime victims are an integral component to eradicating and/or dealing with crime it is important that the myriad issues surrounding this diverse population be explored. This course will look at three main areas concerning victimology: 1) the effects or impact of crime victimization; 2) provision of assistance to crime victims and the criminal justice system - victim interaction; and 3) victim-oriented legislation and victims’ bills of rights. Students will be called to investigate, in depth, how criminal justice agencies help or hinder victim recovery, as well as evaluate the effectiveness of victim serving agencies in relation to the different state’s victims’ bill of rights. Prerequisite: CRJC 540. CRJC 670 (3-3-0) Special Topics in Criminal Justice: This variable topics course will offer students the opportunity to explore specialized areas of criminal justice on a variety of criminal justice subjects. The topics vary from semester to semester. The course can be repeated up to three times as long as the subject matter is different. CRJC 698 (3-0-0) Thesis I: An extensive research experience in an approved topic of choice. Prerequisites: CRJC 500, 510, 520, 530, 540, and 550 CRJC 699 (3-0-0)Thesis II: Continued work on the approved topic of choice begun in CRJC 698. Prerequisite: CRJC 699 CRJC 899 (0-0-0) Thesis Non-credit: This course is required for students that have completed their course work and the number of thesis hours for credit required in their graduate degree program. Students who will continue to use University resources in completing their thesis must enroll in this course.
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Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Victims' issues largely have been ignored within the criminal justice system and the field of criminal justice academia until recently. Crime victims are an integral component to eradicating and/or dealing with crime, thus, it is important that the myriad issues surrounding this diverse population be explored. This course will explore the effects or impact of crime victimization, the provision of assistance to crime victims, interactions between victims and victim-oriented legislation.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will offer students the opportunity to explore specialized areas of criminal justice on a variety of criminal justice subjects. The topics vary from semester to semester. The course can be repeated up to three times as long as the subject matter is different. 189
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CRJC 680Capstone Seminar: Theory, Research, and Practice in Criminal Justice3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This seminar serves as a capstone experience for students completing the Master of Science degree program in Criminal Justice and should be completed during the student's final semester of coursework. Students will engage in activities and assignments requiring a synthesis of theory, research, and practice in criminal justice, drawing upon content from required and elective courses. CRJC 521, CRJC 540, and CRJC 550
Completion of 24 credit hours of coursework for the M.S. degree, including CRJC 501,
CRJC 690Independent Study3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course allows students to examine an area of criminal justice not covered (or not covered in detail) in the core elective courses.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course allows students to examine an area of criminal justice not covered (or not covered in detail) in the core or elective courses.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 This course is required for students who have completed the course work and number of credits required in their graduate degree program. Students who continue to use University resources in preparation for the comprehensive exam must enroll in this course.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 This course is required for students who have completed their course work and the number of thesis hours for credit required in their graduate degree program. Students who will continue to use University resources in completing their thesis must enroll in this course.
