Prerequisite: CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). 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.
Prerequisite: CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). Explores drug laws and their efforts, theoretical links between drugs and crime, legal and illegal drugs, drug offenders, and the criminal justice system and other responses to drugs and crime.
Prerequisite: CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). In-depth examination of the relationship between policing and social problems by focusing on the fundamental theories of crime and identifying and analyzing crime from a law enforcement perspective.
Prerequisite: CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C (C- is not acceptable). Examine the sentencing process including the role that judges and the courtroom work group plays in sentencing. Examine disparities that exist within sentencing and policies that may lessen this disparity.
Prerequisite: CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). 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.
Prerequisites: CRJ 110, CRJ 220, and CRJ 230, with a grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). 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.
Prerequisites: CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). 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.
Prerequisites: CRJ 110 and CRJ 260 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). 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.
Prerequisite: CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). 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.
Prerequisites: CRJ 110, CRJ 260, LIB 160 and STAT 150 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). Students must have completed 45 credit hours to register for this course. Study research methods and statistical techniques for conducting research and analyzing data encountered in criminal justice research. Emphasis on questions inherent to the study of contemporary issues in criminal justice.
Prerequisite: CRJ 110 with a minimum grade of C or better (C- is not acceptable). 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. Repeatable, under different subtitles.