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