Course Index: Criminal Justice

CRIMLJUS 1130 3 credits Introduction to Criminal Justice: A survey of the administration of criminal justice, including the structural components of the criminal justice system and the stages of the criminal process from the detection of crime and arrest through prosecution, adjudication, sentencing and correctional intervention; emphasis upon analysis of decisions and practices within the context of the entire criminal justice system.; Components: Lecture; GE: Social Science
CRIMLJUS 1330 3 credits Introduction to Crime Scene Investigation: This course delves into various types of technology, techniques and equipment used in crime laboratories, and various types of technology, techniques and equipment used by crime scene technicians at a crime scene. Course also provides an overview for the career of crime scene technicians.; Components: Lecture
CRIMLJUS 2130 3 credits The Police Function: The roles and functions of police in a democratic society, including their responsibilities for peacekeeping, law enforcement and service; the police as part of the criminal justice system and as agents of municipal government; models and styles of police behavior.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 1130 with a "C" or better
CRIMLJUS 2230 3 credits Correctional Philosophy: The theories, philosophies and practices of corrections, sentencing structures and their relationship to correctional objectives; the modes of correctional intervention.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 1130 with a "C" or better
CRIMLJUS 2320 3 credits Fingerprint Classification and Development: This course delves into the theoretical and practical applications of fingerprint identification. Course involves developing latent prints from numerous sources in a laboratory setting and at a crime scene. Course also includes rolling fingerprints and fingerprint comparison using automated fingerprint identification systems. Students learn to examine and classify latent prints using the henry alpha-numeric classification system.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMLJUS 1330
CRIMLJUS 2340 3 credits US Courts and the Criminal Justice System: A detailed study of the adversarial system in the United States courts examining the history, tradition and philosophy underlying the system of justice as it is played out in the criminal courts, as well as administrative and civil courts, whose goal is to effect justice on the accused, with a focus on the prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and jurors who are involved in the daily decisions about guilt or innocence, probation or prison for adult and juvenile citizen offenders as well as a secondary focus on non-citizen adult and juvenile offenders.; Components: Lecture
CRIMLJUS 2420 3 credits Evidence Collection and Preservation: This course covers the process, collection and preservation of physical evidence. Includes identification and preservation of physical evidence such as hair, fibers and blood samples at crime scenes. Chain of custody procedures, recording and maintaining evidence collection storage facilities are covered.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: CRIMLJUS 1330
CRIMLJUS 2520 3 credits Crime Scene Processing Techniques: This is a course crafted to familiarize students with the fundamentals and techniques used in crime scene processing and criminal investigations. Students will be expected to achieve a basic knowledge of how to record and document, collect, protect and defend the credibility of evidence.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: CRIMLJUS 1330
CRIMLJUS 2630 3 credits Private Security Operations: A survey of the physical, personnel and informational aspects of the security field; concept of physical information and personnel security systems integrated with management systems; controls in regard to private, public and government owned complexes.; Components: Lecture
CRIMLJUS 2830 3 credits Ethnicity, Race and Crime: A study of the correlation between ethnicity, race, crime and criminality in the United States. This course explores the interrelatedness of ethnicity, race, criminal law, and the sanctioning of criminal behavior in the United States.; Components: Lecture; Cross Offering: ETHNSTDY 2830; GE: Ethnic Studies; Prereqs/Coreqs: Must be at least sophomore standing to enroll in this class
CRIMLJUS 2930 3 credits Interviewing: Examination of the principles of effective interviewing as applied to investigative reporting, research, persuasion, counseling, employment, and the investigation of crime. The latter part of this course will pay particular attention to the theory and practice of interviewing and interrogation as applied to gaining information from complainants, witnesses, victims, informants and suspects.; Components: Lecture
CRIMLJUS 3120 3 credits Investigative Photography: A course crafted to familiarize students with the fundamentals of photography and its application to the science and technology of criminal investigations. The students will be expected to achieve a basic knowledge of how to record and document, collect, protect and defend the credibility of evidence with the use of photography.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMLJUS 1330
CRIMLJUS 3130 3 credits Criminal Investigation: An introduction to the principles and procedures of criminal investigation, including the identification of physical and testimonial evidence, creation of hypotheses for the development of leads and documentation of findings.; Components: Discussion, Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2130 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3140 4 credits Criminalistics: The function and techniques of the application of scientific methods to the evaluation of physical evidence. The course examines the various analytical systems used in the evaluation of physical evidence with a balance between the theoretical framework and practical application in the laboratory.; Components: Discussion, Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2130 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3230 3 credits Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: Cultural bases of laws, development of laws, conceptions of justice and patterns of crime; comparison of American justice systems with other Western and Asian justice systems.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2130 and 2230 with a "C" or better in each and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3330 3 credits Police Administration: Principles of police administration and organization; detailed analysis of police administration such as budgeting, personnel management, implementation of programs toward fulfillment of objectives and decision making.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2130 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3430 3 credits Patterns of Criminal and Delinquent Behavior: The legal and behavioral classification of crimes and criminals based on analysis of the criminal career of the offender, group support of the behavior, society's reaction and the response of the legal system; analysis of crimes as systems of behavior: property, violent, professional organized, victimless, white-collar, conventional and political crime.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2130 and 2230 with a "C" or better in each and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3530 3 credits Correctional Institutions: History, development and functions of correctional institutions including prisons and jails; their custodial and correctional programs; the impact of incarceration upon inmates; the interactional structure of the prison environment; improving conditions and correctional programs.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2230 with a "C" or better and junior standing

CRIMLJUS 3630 3 credits Juvenile Justice: Conceptions of juvenile delinquency; the juvenile offender in the juvenile justice system; the philosophy, structure and function of juvenile courts; legal rights of accused juveniles, correctional theories and programs in juvenile institutions; methods and models of rehabilitating juvenile offenders and prevention of juvenile delinquency.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2230 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3730 3 credits Women and the Law: A study of women in their legal roles as wives and mothers, workers and students, criminals and victims of crime. The course examines how the law affects women's personal choices regarding marriage, having children and aiming for high-level achievements in education and in work. The course also examines ways in which law affects women in poverty and in old age.; Components: Lecture; Cross Offering: WOMSTD 3730; GE: Gender Studies, Social Science; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 1130 or one course in women's studies and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3800 3 credits Environmental Law: A study of historical concepts and common law rules and their effect on the development of environmental law; examination of state and federal statutes, regulations and case law relating to land use, pollution control and preservation of natural resources; exploration of the legal frontiers of environmental protection and restoration.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: 4 credits of lab science and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3830 3 credits Crime Prevention: An investigation of the prevention of crime utilizing changes in both the physical and social environment of the community.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 1130 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3900 3 credits Research Methods in Criminal Justice: An introduction to research methods in criminal justice and criminology, with applications to both pure and applied research. The course provides a basic conceptual framework for understanding and interpreting criminal justice research as well as designing, conducting and evaluating research projects.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2130 and 2230 with a "C" or better in each, MATH 1830 and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 3930 3 credits Law of Corrections: The law pertaining to the effects and consequences of conviction, sentencing and prisoner rights; the legal process in terms of post-trial motions and appeals of conviction.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2230 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 4030 3 credits Criminal Law: A study of the principles, doctrines and selected rules of criminal law; the sources of substantive criminal law and historical development of common law principles of criminal responsibility; constitutional constraints on the decision to define behavior as criminal.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2130 and 2230 with a "C" or better in each and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 4130 3 credits Police-Community Relations: Analysis of the interdependence of the police and community in maintaining order and controlling crime; theories of community and the community's role in the development of police systems; tension and conflict in police-community interaction; programs and strategies for improving the quality of police-community relations.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2130 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 4230 3 credits Community-Based Corrections: Community-based correctional programs; pre- and post-trial; a critical investigation of theories, practices and problems involved in pre-trial diversion, probation and parole.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 2230 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 4330 3 credits Criminal Procedure and Evidence: A study of case law defining constitutional constraints on police behavior in the areas of arrest, search and seizure, interrogation, identification and investigation; rules on the exclusion of illegally seized evidence.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 4030 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 4430 3 credits Issues in Criminal Justice Planning and Management: Problems confronting American criminal justice in the areas of criminal law, courts, law enforcement and corrections; models and alternatives for reforming the criminal justice process including program planning, development and management.; Components: Lecture
CRIMLJUS 4500 1 - 3 credits Directed Individual Studies: Supervised individual study of a topic selected by the student with staff approval.; Components: Independent Study; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 4030 with a "C" or better, an accumulated GPA of 2.50, junior standing and consent of instructor
CRIMLJUS 4630 1 - 3 credits Current Topics In Criminal Justice: Current issues in criminal justice which may not warrant a permanent course. Course content will be announced each time the course is presented.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 4030 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 4730 2 - 4 credits Honors in Criminal Justice Research: The practical application of research to the criminal justice field. The student will design a complete research project within the framework of a tutorial relationship with a member of the criminal justice faculty.; Components: Independent Study; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 4030 with a "C" or better and junior standing
CRIMLJUS 4840 3 credits Psychopharmacology for the AODA Counselor: The effects of nutrients, additives and psychoactive drugs on criminal behavior; the process by which behavior is affected by these substances. It fulfills part of the knowledge base for AODA counselor certification.; Components: Lecture; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 1130, PSYCHLGY 1130 or SOCIOLGY 1030 and junior standing. A biology course is recommended.
CRIMLJUS 4880 8 credits Internship: Enhancement of the educational experience through placement of a student with a governmental or private agency; emphasis placed on integration of criminal justice theory and practice through field observations, practical experience and extensive report writing, including submission of daily reports, administrative reports and case reports.; Components: Field Studies; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: 60 credits plus 12 upper division criminal justice credits, a 2.25 GPA and a passing score on the department's writing certification requirement
CRIMLJUS 4930 3 credits Criminal Justice Seminar: Discussion and evaluation of problems in the contemporary criminal justice system; individual research and presentation of findings.; Components: Seminar; Prereqs/Coreqs: P: CRIMJUS 4030 with a "C" or better, senior standing and a passing score on the department's writing certification requirement