Criminal Justice (CRJ)
CRJ 101 INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0; SS23
An introductory analysis of the agencies and processes of the criminal justice system, including an examination of patterns of crime and victimization; underlying ideologies; procedures, functions and structure; fundamental legal concepts; interaction between various social groups and the criminal justice system; and organization, discretion and decision-making of police, criminal courts, and correctional services. Offered every semester.
CRJ 201 CRIMINAL LAW
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: CRJ 101. The study of substantive criminal law through the analysis of judicial opinions and textual material. In-depth coverage of the elements of crime, such as intent, actus reus, and concurrence, examined within the statutory definition of several different offenses and studied within the context of defenses such as justifications, among others. Offered every semester.
CRJ 202 THE POLICE PROCESS
3, 3/0
Comprehensive introduction to the basic elements of policing in the United States, designed to acquaint students with the most current knowledge about police organizations, police officers, police work, and police problems. Offered every semester.
CRJ 204 THE CORRECTIONAL PROCESS
3, 3/0
The correctional process from sentencing to parole. Examines legal and administrative processes used in establishing postconviction remedies, criminal sanctions, and social controls on adult offenders. Emphasis on understanding the structure and function of the American correctional system and the processes in establishing correctional custody and treatment. Offered every semester.
CRJ 250 INTRODUCTION TO INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
3, 3/0
Survey course that introduces students to the discipline of intelligence in the areas of national security, business, and law enforcement. Provides students with an understanding of how intelligence systems function, how they are used by policymakers, and how they are managed and controlled. Covers such intelligence topics as history, ethics, psychology, and analytical techniques. Offered every semester.
CRJ 301 POLICE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or permission of instructor, upper-division status. Analysis of administrative theory and practice in police systems with emphasis on organization and function, and on issues unique to those systems. Offered every semester.
CRJ 302 CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE COMMUNITY
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101 and upper-division status or instructor permission. Patterns of crime in the community and the community's response. Differences between urban and suburban areas, as well as by age, gender, and race. Practices and effects of diversion, community-based corrections, victim-witness programs, crime watch, court watch, restitution, mediation, and dispute-resolution programs. Offered fall only.
CRJ 303 CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY AND IDEOLOGY
3, 3/0; RE23
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CWP 102 and upper-division status or instructor permission. Examination of the social, political, cultural, and economic forces that shape the historical and contemporary theories and ideologies of crime and their interactive influences with criminal justice policies and practices. Offered every semester.
CRJ 305 THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, and upper-division status. The structure and function of the juvenile justice system. Statutes and court decisions used to determine jurisdiction over youth. Critical decision-making stages of the juvenile court process. Review of the research concerning the relative effectiveness of treatment and social control programs for youth. Emphasis on the historical, cultural, social, and legal influences governing the processes, priorities, and practices of juvenile justice. Offered every semester.
CRJ 306 PROBATION, PAROLE, AND COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101 and upper-division status. Review of probation, parole, and community corrections; their histories and organizational structures; the nature and effects of the process by which offenders are handled, as well as the dynamics and trends toward change in the field of probation, parole, and community-based corrections. Offered every semester.
CRJ 307 COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: CRJ 101. The major contemporary criminal justice systems and their operations under various cultural contexts. The social, economic, political, and ideological forces that have impacted present-day systems. Methodological issues of comparative research. Offered fall only.
CRJ 308 CRIME PREVENTION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: CRJ 101. The nature and effects of three levels of efforts at crime prevention: those administered by the formal justice system to prevent offenders from repeating offenses, those designed to deal with people identified as likely to commit crime, and those designed to modify the physical and social environments that foster crime. Offered occasionally.
CRJ 310 STATISTICS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Majors Only, Completion of the IF ir IF14 mathematics and quantitative reasoning requirement. An introductory overview of statistical principles and statistical techniques in criminal justice research. Introduction of data measurement, data distributions, probability and the normal curve, samples and populations, testing differences between means, analysis of variance, nonparametric tests of significance, correlation, and regression analysis. Includes “hands-on” experience using SPSS for data analysis and interpretation.
CRJ 315 RESEARCH METHODS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0; IN23
Prerequisites: CRJ 101 and upper-division status. Introduction to the research process as practiced in criminal justice addressing issues of ethics, research design, measurement, validity and reliability, and sampling. Explores various methods of data collection used in criminal justice research. Offered every semester.
CRJ 317 CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101 and upper-division status. Constitutional issues in criminal justice through a review of United States Supreme Court decisions regarding law enforcement, prosecution, defense, judicial process, corrections, and community supervision; additional constitutional issues related to the administration of justice. Offered every semester.
CRJ 320 CRIMINAL COURTS
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: CRJ 101 and upper-division status or instructor permission. The trial criminal courts, with emphasis on courts for adult offenders. Legal, social, and political processes that affect the dynamics of the criminal trial process. Problems, possible reforms, and decision-making of the participants. Interrelationships that affect and influence court decisions and justice. Offered occasionally.
CRJ 355 CRIME ANALYSIS
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Junior level status or instructor permission. Crime analysis terminology, techniques, and methodologies. The role and responsibilities of a crime analyst, including the need for analysts to utilize cross-jurisdictional data and provide objective results to policymakers and law enforcement decision-makers. Offered every semester.
CRJ 402 ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101 and upper-division status. Advanced course in management concepts and issues applicable to the administration of criminal justice agencies. Emphasis on a systems model of organizational analysis. External environment of crime control policy and its impact upon agency operations. Internal agency management. The responsibilities and functions of crime control agency managers. Offered spring only.
CRJ 404 WHITE-COLLAR AND CORPORATE CRIME
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CRJ 303, and upper-division status. Physical and financial harm caused by wayward corporations, corporate officials, employees, and other white-collar offenders. Emphasis on ethical and legal decision making and regulatory monitoring, and control of white-collar and corporate activity. Offered spring only.
CRJ 406 CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROGRAMS
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CRJ 204, and upper-division status or permission of instructor. Comprehensive survey of adult institutional corrections systems, their programs and services, and the policies and procedures governing the operational, legal, and structural context of correctional environments. Emphasis on the research literature focused on the impacts and outcomes of various correctional intervention strategies. Offered occasionally.
CRJ 408 PROSEMINAR IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101 and upper-division status or instructor permission. Investigation, examination, and discussion of topics of current interest in criminal justice. Techniques and analysis of criminal justice research. Offered occasionally.
CRJ 409 ADVANCED ISSUES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CRJ 202, and upper-division status or permission of instructor. Advanced course on contemporary issues in law enforcement. Provides insight and depth into a broad range of topics and exposes students to experts and specialists from various relevant disciplines. Offered spring only.
CRJ 410 ORGANIZED CRIME
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CRJ 303, and upper-division status or instructor permission. Views on organized crime, the controversy surrounding the phenomenon, and efforts at control. Definition of organized crime, its developmental history, and models that define the structure of organized crime in the United States. Theories that explain the existence of organized crime, activities that constitute the "business" of organized crime, the relationship between organized crime and official corruption, techniques used to combat organized crime, and policy implications inherent in responses to organized crime. Offered fall only.
CRJ 420 ADVANCED ISSUES IN PUNISHMENT AND CORRECTIONS
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CRJ 204; upper-division status. Critical analysis of contemporary policies, practices, and issues arising from the control and punishment of criminal offenders. Emphasis on the complexity of recent issues, such as disparity in criminal sentencing, use of the death penalty, institutional overcrowding, treatment of institutionalized people, and community supervision of nonincarcerated offenders. Focus of analysis will vary with interests of faculty and students. Offered fall only.
CRJ 425 RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
3, 3/0; DI23, IN23
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CRJ 303 and senior level status or instructor permission. The current state of race relations in society and the criminal justice system; the historical experiences of different racial and ethnic groups in the United States and their relation to law and the criminal justice system as victims, offenders, and officials in criminal justice institutions. Offered every semester.
Equivalent Course: AAS 425
CRJ 430 GENDER AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
3, 3/0; DI23, IN23
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CRJ 303 and senior level status or instructor permission. The mutual effects between gender and aspects of criminal justice, including victimization, criminality, law, and the criminal justice process. Includes perspectives on the historical subordination of women, and how law and the criminal justice system can be used to ameliorate that subordination. Offered every semester.
CRJ 440 DRUGS, CRIME, AND DRUG POLICY
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CWP 102 and upper-division status or instructor permission. The nature and impact of drug abuse in America and the relationship to criminal behavior. The historical and ideological foundations of national drug-control policy as well as contemporary control and intervention strategies. Offered occasionally.
CRJ 450 TERRORISM AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Upper-division status or instructor permission. The phenomenon of terrorism from a criminal justice perspective. The history of the phenomenon and contemporary terrorism in both its domestic and international manifestations; theories about terrorism; analytic methods for investigating and combating it, whether perpetrated by state or non-state actors. Offered every semester.
CRJ 455 ADVANCED INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: CRJ 250. Introduces a variety of analytical techniques; provides advanced knowledge, understanding, and application of these techniques; promotes critical thinking and report-writing skills. Offered every semester.
CRJ 470 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CWP 102, CRJ 101, CRJ 303, CRJ 315, upper division status, and at least 24 credit hours of criminal justice coursework. Integration of knowledge acquired throughout the criminal justice curriculum into a holistic conception of criminal justice theory, practice, research, and planning. Emphasis on developing advanced scholarship, conceptualization, and critical thinking through writing within the discipline. Offered every semester.
CRJ 485 MOCK TRIAL
1-3, 1/0
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Simulation of a trial court or appellate court proceeding involving teams of students acting as prosecutor/plaintiffs' attorneys, defense attorneys, and witnesses. Students develop case strategy, analyze evidence, integrate legal precedent, prepare a written brief, question witnesses, and present oral arguments to the court in opening and closing statements. Final project is a mock trial presentation held in a formal courtroom setting. Offered every semester.
CRJ 488 INTERNSHIP IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3-15, 3/0
Prerequisites: Senior-level standing, 3.0 GPA, and permission of instructor. A comprehensive, supervised field experience in criminal justice and related social service agencies. Requires a minimum of 10 hours of work in the agency during a 14-week period (140 total hours) and a weekly academic seminar on campus. The purpose of the internship is to integrate knowledge learned in the academic environment with the experience of day-to-day work in a professional environment. Offered every semester.
CRJ 495 SPECIAL PROJECT
1-3, 0/0
Offered occasionally.
CRJ 497 WORKSHOP
3, 3/0
Special workshop in Criminal Justice.
CRJ 499 INDEPENDENT STUDY
3-12, 0/0