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This course surveys the complexities and diversity of the U.S. Criminal Justice system, providing an overview of historical and contemporary legal issues, legislative policy, law enforcement, court and correctional theories, goals, strategies, and ethical practices. (3 contact hours) (TAG, CTAG) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: CRMJ 1110. This course introduces students to the historic and cultural relationships between individuals, communities, and policing in the United States. The course includes policing roles, duties, styles, subculture, and discretion, and their impact on ethical police practices relating to prejudice, perception, discrimination, deviance, labeling, conflict, communication, specific subcultures, the homeless, physically and mentally challenged individuals, alternative lifestyles, and victims of violence. (3 contact hours) (TAG) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: CRMJ 1110. This course examines historical, current, and future correctional alternatives to incarceration for both juvenile and adult offenders. It introduces students to various topics, including model institutional systems and programs; such community-based interventions as probation, community correction centers, community treatment centers, and house arrest; required community resources; ethical and legal issues; and problems associated with the supervision of inmates with special needs. (3 contact hours) (TAG) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: CRMJ 1110. This course provides an in-depth examination of criminal law, including sources of law, capacity to commit crimes, defenses, and elements of select statutes. (3 contact hours) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: CRMJ 1110. This course reintroduces basic methodologies used to legally and ethically investigate a wide variety of crimes. Students will learn techniques for gathering information; processing crime scenes; and collecting, recording, and preserving physical evidence. Students will learn how to use deductive reasoning in solving crimes through the use of practical problems. (3 contact hours) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: CRMJ 1110, CRMJ 1211. This course provides an in-depth examination of contemporary issues facing U.S. correctional staff and administrators. It provides students with the opportunity to research and discuss such ethical and current challenges as correctional theory, privatization, inmate medical needs, services and programming, special population needs, staff health-wellness, civil liability, and correctional technology. (3 contact hours) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: CRMJ 1110. This course provides an in-depth survey of the historical and theoretical development of the disciplines of criminology, the sociology of criminal law, and patterns of criminal behavior and measurements of crime. The course reintroduces students to the complexities and difficulties associated with the enforcement and administration of criminal law, the social reactions to crime and public policy, and the issues and challenges to future crime control in U.S. society. (3 contact hours) (TAG) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: CRMJ 1117 or CRMJ 1211. This course helps students develop skills necessary to elicit information from witnesses and confessions from offenders. Students will learn to interpret body gestures and establish environments conducive to effective communications. Lab exercises provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate these skills in a realistic setting. (3 contact hours) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: CRMJ 1230 or permission of instructor. This course builds upon the foundational knowledge obtained in Crime Scene Investigation (CRMJ 1230) and provides an in-depth examination of the advanced forensic techniques used to investigate violent crime. Through hands-on exercises, students will become proficient in documenting, processing, and preserving physical evidence as well as the management and coordination of complex crimes. Topics will include advanced bloodstain pattern analysis, searching for latent blood, shooting incident reconstruction, crime scene photography, forensic archaeology, and forensic entomology. (4 contact hours: 2 lecture, 2 lab) [Catalog Entry]