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CJ 101 Introduction to Criminal Justice | Fulfills Gen Ed: Social Science - An introduction to the parts of the criminal justice system and the interrelationship of these parts, incorporating the development of the CJ model. The three areas of this model are studied: law enforcement, judicial/legal, and corrections. The criminal justice system is viewed in its historical development as well as in its relationship to contemporary social issues. A required course for Criminal Justice, and Forensic Science/CSI majors. |
CJ 102 Juvenile Delinquency | An in-depth study of the nature and extent of juvenile delinquency in America. Topics covered include an overview and examination of philosophies of juvenile control, the magnitude and trends of juvenile crime in America, the major theoretical perspectives addressing crime causation, and other issues directly related to the course, e.g., gangs. |
CJ 103 Introduction to Security | This course will examine the concept and application of private security as it relates to the business world and the criminal justice system. A survey of security theory and techniques will be applied to a variety of business, institutional and industrial settings. The evolving technological tools of private security will be discussed, as will the importance of security to protecting assets and maintaining profitability. This course will expose the student to the historical evolution and modern rationale for security, as well as the fundamental concepts upon which to base more advanced course work. In addition, the basic organizational structure of the United States Department of Homeland Security will be introduced to students. |
CJ 104 Introduction to Conservation Law Enforcement | This introductory course offers a general and comprehensive examination of the role of conservation officers in society. The course will review topics such as who conservation officers are; their history; the scope of conservation law enforcement; important legal aspects, patrol strategies, and other aspects of conservation law enforcement. Current conservation and law enforcement issues will be explored. Credits: 3 |
CJ 105 Introduction to Criminology | This course will begin with an exploration of tools and techniques used by scientists studying human and social behavior, followed by a close examination of the rich theoretical traditions in the field of criminology. Throughout the semester priority will be given to understanding policy implications associated with each school of thought and mechanisms that can be used to evaluate policy options. We will review the history of criminology, including subfields such as victimology and penology. |
CJ 200 Introduction to Corrections | This course will present an overview and critical analysis of contemporary correctional theory and practice. Issues to be explored include prisoner rights, victimization, the death penalty, community corrections, probation and parole concepts and practice, correctional careers, unions, and the future of corrections. A required course for criminal justice majors |
CJ 202 Introduction to Criminal Law & Procedure | This course will chronicle the development of the American system of criminal law and how today’s criminal justice system is impacted through the implementation of these laws. It will analyze the elements of crime and conventional defenses to criminal liability and further investigate the major offense categories, at an introductory level, as defined by the New York Penal Code. The second half of the term explores the constitutional dimensions of criminal procedure from initial contact with the criminal justice system through the pre-trial process, with a focus on the significance of due process. The course will prepare students for upper-level law and procedure classes and for future employment within the field of criminal justice. A required course for Criminal Justice and Forensic Science/CSI majors. |
CJ 204 Crime and Society | The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the field of criminology. Attention will be paid to theory construction and theory testing to arrive at a better understanding of the present state of criminological knowledge. The concept of crime will be studied from a number of theoretical perspectives including biological, psychological, sociological and cultural. Special consideration is given to contemporary criminological concerns such as white collar, victimless and violent crime. The course is designed to enable students to understand crime as a single issue, prior to agency or institutional involvement. This course fulfills the Social Science General Education requirement. |
CJ 205 Drugs, Crime and the Criminal Justice System | Drugs and substance abuse have been and will continue to be a major problem for our entire criminal justice system. Students preparing for a career in criminal justice and related disciplines need an awareness and understanding of the problems, issues, terminology and impact of this difficult area. This course is designed to introduce the student to the study of drugs and substance abuse and their impact on the criminal justice system. Through class lectures and discussion the students will come to understand specific drugs and substances that influence not only our society but more specifically our criminal justice system. |
CJ 210 Introduction to Policing - Professional Entry | This course is designed to provide the criminal justice major with basic information about the state, county and municipal level of policing in the United States. Issues such as the police role, police discretion, police culture, personality and stress will be discussed. Other areas of inquiry will be police and the various communities they police, police and the law, and police ethics. Finally, the course will present pragmatic career choice information to the student concerning required, entry-level law enforcement testing, physical requirements age restrictions, psychological parameters, and other qualifications that the student will be required to meet in order to enter into a law enforcement career. There is a strong emphasis on police entry testing. |
CJ 300 Probation, Parole, and Community-Based Corrections | This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the decision making process as it relates to probation, parole, and community based corrections. It will examine the organization and management of probation and parole agencies. Issues such as constitutional impact, political and legal implications, pre-sentencing, supervision, parole success, types of conditional release, interaction with social and legal agencies will be covered. |
CJ 302 The Juvenile Justice System | This course is designed to introduce students to the workings of the juvenile justice system. Students will be familiarized with relevant interactions of various agencies (e.g., the police, courts, department of corrections and other youth agencies and programs) with the youth of our society. Through class lectures and discussion students will be introduced to the problems encountered by the juvenile justice system and an evaluation of those practices which have been implemented to reduce delinquency. Lastly, the basic rights afforded youth with respect to their interactions with the criminal justice system will be examined. This course fulfills the Social Science General Education requirement. |
CJ 303 Asset Protection | An advanced study and application of security theory and methods as they relate to the retail environment. Physical and procedural measures for safeguarding money and merchandise are analyzed. Particular attention is given to deterring and detecting both internal and external theft as well as programs for training, auditing, and inventory control. Emphasis is placed on the avoidance of civil liability and the coordination of efforts with non-security management and employees. A problem-solving research project is required. |
CJ 304 Organized Crime and the Career Criminal | This course will focus on the analysis of how criminal organizations are structured, how they function, and how they have developed criminogenic market structures for illegal co-ops or services. The connection between legitimate business and organized crime, and political machines and organized crime will be studied in depth. The drug cartels, ethnic gangs, white-collar criminals, and financial organizations will focus on contemporary views. |
CJ 305 Research Methods in Social Sciences | This course is designed to familiarize criminal justice, human service and psychology majors, as well as potential graduate students, with the conceptual and operational skills to design and conduct research, including: the development of research, questions and hypotheses; selection of research design and data collection strategies, sampling procedures, and data analysis and interpretation. Students will acquire the skills necessary to conduct social science research and to prepare formal research reports. |
CJ 307 Gender and the Criminal Justice System | As the position of women changes in society, changes occur within the criminal justice system. This course will provide students with a clearer view of how women have historically been treated by and within the system, the current status of women, the problems which have resulted from rapid changes, and a view of what is likely to happen in the future. Female crime victims, female criminals, and women who work in the criminal justice field will be discussed. Attention will also be paid to the changing status of men in the system, and the special problems they face (i.e. sexual harassment or discrimination complaints). |
CJ 310 Introduction to Policing/ Professional Entry | This course is designed to provide the criminal justice major with basic information about the state, county and municipal level of policing in the United States. Issues such as the police role, police discretion, police culture, personality and stress will be discussed. Other areas of inquiry will be police and the various communities they police, police and the law, and police ethics. Finally, the course will present pragmatic career choice information to the student concerning required, entry-level law enforcement testing, physical requirements age restrictions, psychological parameters, and other qualifications that the student will be required to meet in order to enter into a law enforcement career. There is a strong emphasis on police entry testing. |
CJ 311 Police Management and Organization | This course exposes the student to a broad spectrum of law enforcement organizations that exist in our society today. The focus is on the organization of law enforcement and certain management styles that have been utilized to deal with policing our society. The issues and areas covered include: management theory, organizational environment, leadership, productivity, operations, information management, communications, and the relationship that exists in these and other areas which affect our law enforcement agencies today. |
CJ 312 Police: Human Dimension | This course will review the historical foundations of policing and relate those original influences to present-day practices and policies. The course will include a review of private police and security, police unions, political influences on police work, and police deviance. An in-depth look at police problems and issues such as ethics, decision making, police discretion, use of deadly force, police cynicism, stress in police employment, coping mechanisms, and the future of policing will be included. |
CJ 315 Laws and Rules of Evidence | This upper division criminal justice course is designed to combine the principles of competency-based learning of case law and the skills necessary to effectively understand the practices and procedures of our court and judicial system. The course will focus on the nature and development of evidence law, admissibility of evidence, relevancy of evidence, character evidence, witness examination and credibility, impeachment, expert testimony, scientific evidence as well as hearsay and privilege testimony. A required course for Forensic Science/CSI majors. |
CJ 316 Family Violence | This course is intended to provide students with a stronger understanding of the scope and seriousness of all forms of family violence and abuse, and the difficulties faced by criminal justice and human service agencies. Historical, social, political, psychological, and legal aspects of family violence will be considered, and much time will be devoted to examining underlying causes. This course will also evaluate some of the nonviolent harm done by families to their members, including the contributions made by family structure and functioning to problems such as delinquency or adult criminality, depression, and suicide. |
CJ 317 Family Violence Treatment and Prevention | This course offers an introduction to the dynamics of family violence with an emphasis on treatment and intervention strategies. Students will examine types of family violence across the life span, identification and reporting procedures, controversial issues of relevance to the field of family violence, the impact of substance abuse/misuse on family functioning and violent patterns of behavior, and current and innovative approaches to treatment and prevention. |
CJ 320 Transnational Crime and Comparative Criminal Justice Systems | This course will provide an interdisciplinary perspective of worldwide crime and justice. The course will explore topics such as global crime, crime rates, crime trends, and crime theories. The criminal justice systems of England, France, Sweden, Japan, and Russia will be compared with the United States criminal justice system. |
CJ 321 Terrorism and Homeland Security | This upper division course was designed to provide students with an understanding and appreciation for the whole new concept that was formulated primarily to combat the threat of terrorism. Initially, Homeland Security was a term utilized by President George W. Bush to describe the creation of the newly formed Department of Homeland Security. This comprehensive reorganization of the federal government was undertaken with the specific intent of improving the security and safety of our nation against terrorist attacks such as the ones that occurred on 9/11. The concept of homeland security has now evolved into a much broader context that affects the everyday lives of all Americans. It affects our basic civil liberties (the Patriot Act), how we travel (airport and airline security), how we gather and disseminate intelligence information, how first responders are trained to respond to suspected acts of terrorism and how we conduct business with countries that harbor or foster terrorists. This and other related topics concerning Homeland Security will be discussed during this course. |
CJ 330 Ethics in the Criminal Justice System | All professionals in the criminal justice system must be sensitive to ethical issues. This course will expose students to a broad range of moral argument and so give them an opportunity to construct moral frameworks of their own. Students will explore a variety of ethical issues in criminal justice such as (1) social inequalities; unequal access to justice; (2) corruption, bribery, and influence peddling; (3) the integrity of evidence; truthful testimony; (4) Plea bargaining; (5) use of force, weapons, and coercion. A required course for Criminal Justice and Forensic Science/CSI majors. |
CJ 333 Information Security | With the expansion of global networks, organizations have an increasing need to understand how to protect critical information assets from a myriad of threats. This course provides a broad overview of the field of information security, with a focus on security management practices. It covers terminology, history and the process of managing an information security program. The course includes a discussion of several of the ten domains which comprise the common body of knowledge for information security. This course sets the foundation for further study in computer and network security. |
CJ 334 Analysis of Sexual Offenses & The Sex Offender | This course is designed to provide the student with information concerning sexual offenses & sex offenders. The course content will cover legal issues, as well as victim and offender treatment issues; examining issues within an ecological framework. Current controversies concerning the management of sex offenders in the community will be discussed in detail. |
CJ 335 Diversity Issues in Criminal Justice | The criminal justice system faces serious questions about its handling of diversity, and this is likely to worsen in the future. This course will examine the racial/ethnic and diversity issues that are directly relevant to the justice system, in order to provide students with the background they need to understand crime in a racial context, accusations of differential justice, cries of racism over police shootings, hate crimes, concerns about political correctness and affirmative action, and a variety of other topics. Some attention will also be devoted other groups, including religious minorities, gays and the disabled. |
CJ 400 Advanced Seminar in Corrections | This course presents a critical and in-depth analysis of current correctional issues that face our country today. The focus of the semester will be in areas of problem analysis, problem solving, and recommendation presentations. The issues examined will include areas such as death penalty, riot, overcrowding, A.I.D.S. in the correctional setting, recruitment, alternative sentencing, recidivism, community based corrections, classification, comparative or international corrections, regional disparity and other issues that would be relevant. This is a seminar-based offering. |
CJ 402 Crime and Deviance | This course is intended to expose students to a full semester examining the importance of theory in the development of modern day knowledge, the history and expansion of theoretical perspectives in the field of criminal justice (as well as related fields of study), and how theories have been used to guide social policy. Students will also critically examine programs and other efforts aimed at reducing crime and delinquency that have followed the ideals of various theoretical perspectives studied. The class will build on lower-level courses aimed at examining crime & delinquency (e.g., CJ 102 Juvenile Delinquency, CJ 204 Crime and Society, CJ 302 The Juvenile Justice System). Students completing this sequence will have a strong concentration in juvenile delinquency. This course will also benefit students wishing to pursue graduate studies in the field of criminal justice or related fields of sociology, psychology and social work. |
CJ 403 Security Administration | This course focuses on the security administrator's role in developing the security department's mission statement and a corporate-wide security strategic plan, for protecting a major corporation's assets and holdings. Various facility survey methods will be examined, along with the reasoning process necessary to determine appropriate remedial applications, pertinent to such areas as security and life safety. The process for determining if any existing departmental policies and procedures need to be deleted or revised, and when developing new policies and procedures if necessary, will be explained. Staff organization is discussed concerning instances where a totally new security department has to be staffed, or when personnel structure changes within an existing department are necessary, as dictated by the new strategic plan. Budgeting for the implementation of the new security strategic plan will also be discussed. A written project pertinent to the survey process and remedial applications is required, in addition to an oral presentation of the surveys "findings" to a "mock board of directors", comprised of fellow students. |
CJ 404 Criminal Investigation/Criminalistics | This course will develop the investigative process (both criminal and non-criminal) from the scene through trial. The course is designed for the student to understand the investigative process as a part of the criminal justice network and also as a part of civil litigation, starting from historical perspective up to current importance of criminalistics as part of that process. The goal of this course is to have the student develop an analytical understanding of the investigative process and to understand the interrelationship of the investigative process and criminalistics. A required course for Criminal Justice and Forensic Science/CSI majors. |
CJ 405 Advanced Seminar in Criminal Justice | The focus of this course is to identify the unresolved issues and influences that affect our criminal justice system in the areas of law enforcement, courts, private security and corrections. The student participant should be able to research, evaluate and propose potential solutions or recommendations in these particular issue areas. Issues such as use of deadly force, police crackdowns, community policing, private policing, educational mandates, equal opportunity, research, sting operations, media influence, constitutional influences, victims of crime, plea bargaining, life without parole vs. death penalty, court case overload, and other relevant issues will be focused on. The main goal of this course is to bring together a student’s college academic experiences in areas of writing, oral communications, research, statistics, and the criminal justice major in a way that will help one develop one’s investigative, communications, and problem-solving skills. |
CJ 416 Advanced Issues in Family Violence | While family violence is a very old problem, as an academic discipline it is continually changing. This course is designed to give students the opportunity to examine the process of change as they relate to the theoretical, political, and practical issues associated with family violence. Students should possess basic knowledge about the history, types and patterns of abuse before taking this course, as well as an understanding of the criminal justice system. Attention will be paid to new theoretical developments in the field, and changes in the relationship between theory and practice. The relationship between family violence and other forms of violent crime will be considered, and current debates in the field will be examined. |
CJ 417 Violent Phenomena | While violence holds a special fascination to many, it is rarely understood. This course will examine a wide variety of violent phenomena from a multi disciplinary perspective. The history and theoretical cause of violence will be discussed, and empirical evidence will be weighed. Among the topics to be considered are categories of murder, stalking, arson, rape and other forms of violent sexuality, school violence, workplace violence, kidnapping, and other violent crimes. Attention will also be paid to injurious behaviors such as suicide and self-mutilation. Each form of violence will be examined from four different angles: causes, societal reaction, criminal justice system response and possibility of prevention. |
CJ 499 Criminal Justice Practicum/Internship | This course would make available an experiential situation in a criminal justice setting and provide an opportunity for the intern to learn from a field placement in a police, correctional, court-related, or private organization. A variety of experiences will be available and guided by agency and school personnel. Reserved for students in the criminal justice program. All prospective students are required to have a conference with the Criminal Justice Chair or designee during the pre-registration period to make arrangements for appropriate placement in a criminal justice agency. A required course for Criminal Justice 4+1 majors. |