Undergraduate 2019-2020

CRJ 310 White Collar Crime

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 312 Crime Prevention

This class provides an overview of policy formation and evaluates what works in various crime and delinquency prevention policies and programs.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 315 Drugs & Crime

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 317 Cybercrime

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 324 Crime Mapping

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.
3

CRJ 325 Problem-Oriented Policing

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 332 The Sentencing Process

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 335 Juvenile Justice

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 350 Victim Studies

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C and CRJ 220: with minimum grade of C and CRJ 230: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 352 Domestic Violence Victims & Offenders

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 354 Restorative Justice

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 360 Theories of Crime

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C and CRJ 260: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 362 Criminal Behavior Analysis

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.
3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

CRJ 380 Justice Research & Statistics I

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.
3

Prerequisites

45.0 credits required and CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C and CRJ 260: with minimum grade of C and May concurrently take LIB 160: with minimum grade of C and STAT 150: with minimum grade of C

Class Restriction

Include Sophomore and Junior and Senior

CRJ 395 Topics in Criminal Justice

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.
1- 3

Prerequisites

CRJ 110: with minimum grade of C

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles with no limits on the number of times it can be repeated