Introduction to various topics and issues relating to white-collar crime. Theories, measurements, and prevention strategies of white-collar, organizational, occupational, workplace, and environmental crimes will be presented and compared.
This class provides an overview of policy formation and evaluates what works in various crime and delinquency prevention policies and programs.
An examination of the criminal justice system's experience with cybercrimes. Explore the emergence of cybercriminality since the widespread use of the "information highway." Examine how the Internet has allowed for an explosion of criminal behavior and an influx of new offenders on our criminal justice system.
Provides the student with hands on experience in the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to analyze organization operations, crime statistics, and crime patterns.
Focus on the juvenile justice system that responds to criminal acts committed by minors, as well as theories that attempt to explain the development of law-breaking behaviors in this population.
Examine the emerging discipline of victimology, including the history of victim services, its place in the criminal justice system, and its role in addressing the needs of those victimized by criminal activity.
Examines the phenomenon of family violence from the perspective of victims, offenders, and children. Focus on safety concerns for victims and criminal justice system response to victims and offenders.
Focus on the evolution of the use of restorative justice theories and practices within the criminal justice system and situations that require conflict resolution, within the United States and internationally.
Examine major types of crime in the context of theories of crime and criminal behavior. Explain and critique current social responses to crime and policies of crime control.
Use inductive and deductive reasoning in understanding violent crime scenes and in establishing suspect profiles. Emphasis on assessing an offender's 'signature', modus operandi and motives.
Study of methods for conducting research, collecting data, and analyzing data encountered in criminal justice. Emphasis on questions inherent to the study of contemporary issues in criminal justice.
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CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C) and (Concurrent Prerequisite
LIB 160 with a minimum grade of C) and (Completion of LC2-Mathematics course or Completion of LAX1-Mathematics course)
Special Notes
Must earn a minimum grade of "C" or better (C- is not acceptable) in
LIB 160 and
CRJ 110.
MATH 120 is suggested for the LAC Mathematics course.
Offerings under this heading focus on criminal justice topics not regularly offered in the department. Topics could include capital punishment, community policing, minorities in the justice system, etc.