Required Courses and Electives

CJ165 Introduction to Criminology
Theories and research findings on lawbreaking, the role of criminal law, types of criminal careers, crime prevention, and the criminal justice system.

CJ169 Facility Security and Inspection (Contact Chairman for course description.)

CJ170 Introduction to Criminal Justice
The criminal justice process from arrest through conviction: the law of arrest, the role of the prosecutor, plea bargaining, sentencing practices, jury trials, diversion and alternatives to imprisonment. Careers in criminal justice.

CJ175 Introduction to Law Enforcement: Sociology of the Police
The police in modern urban society, policewomen, the training of police, police corruption, and social science research on the police.

CJ177 Police Culture
The total way of life of police: formal and informal, on the job and off the job, police norms, values, beliefs and behavior. Police brutality, corruption, community relations, misunderstandings, and scapegoating are considered. Prerequisite: CJ175.

CJ199 Fundamentals of Criminal Law
This course explores the common law and statory principles of criminal liability, defenses to criminal liability, and the history and elements of crimes against persons, property, public order, and morals.

CJ222 Family Law
A study of laws and court decisions regarding marriage, cohabitation, divorce, child custody and support, reproductive rights, adoption, parental rights, and child abuse and neglect.

CJ240 Gangs and Organized Crime
Examines the street gang from Colonial era America to present day. Explores ethnic organized crime groups, the connections between groups, drug trafficking, extortion, prostitution, money laundering, and violent criminal activity.

CJ253 Social Deviance
Explores the concepts of social norms, egocentricity, and ethnocentricity. Examines the relativity of deviance including criminal behavior, human sexuality, drug use, suicide, and other alternative forms of behavior.

CJ258 Criminal Justice Ethics
Examines the Criminal Justice system from the ethical point of view. Among the topics discussed are police procedures and human rights, the conduct of attorneys, due process of law, the operation of correctional facilities, and the conflict between rehabilitation and incarceration of offenders.

CJ260 Traffic Management
The sources of traffic problems: traffic engineering and travel patterns. Traffic "jams" and rush hour; collisions and disabled vehicles. Managing volume; detours and advance warnings. Coordinating street traffic and highway operations. "Zero tolerance" programs for moving violations and equipment violations. Crime detection: stolen vehicles, fugitives, smuggling. Prerequisite: CJ175.

CJ265 History of Crime and Punishment
Designed to provide the students with a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to Crime & Delinquency, both as a philosophical and historical exercise to corrections and as the primary facets of the contemporary CJ system.  Social Theories, Behavior Patterns and Criminal Typologies will be studied to provide the student with an understanding of how and why an undestanding of crime plays a role in the historic development of the CJ system.  Society's reaction to crime will be examined and discussed.

CJ280 Juvenile Delinquency
Theories of delinquency causation; the family and delinquency; problems of adolescence; the juvenile justice system; delinquency prevention programs: methods of treatment; alcohol and drug abuse; child abuse and neglect.

CJ283 Home and Business Security (Contact Chairman for course description.)

CJ285 Criminal Corrections Systems
Objectives of punishment, jails and their contemporary problems; types of prisons; corrections officers and their training; prison work, education and treatment programs; inmate social structure; parole and reintegration programs.

CJ290 Comparative Correctional Systems
Post-conviction differences between the United States and several other nations: sentencing, probation, fines, prison systems and alternative punishments, highlighting Japan, Canada, India/Egypt. Stress on values and political influences. Prerequisite: CJ285

CJ299 Effective Leadership for Criminal Justice Practitioners
Provides students with a solid foundation in leadership principles and effective leading change in criminal justice agencies.

CJ300 Wealth, Power, and Prestige: The Sociology of Social Stratification
Classic theories and recent research on social inequality and mobility. The linkage of social class and behavior in education, religion, politics, etc.

CJ306 Cops, Crime and Cinema: Examining the Criminal Justice System Through Film
An examination of the images the popular film media portrays of law enforcement, corrections, and the courts, and how these views differ from the reality of the criminal justice system.

CJ315 Criminal Procedure
An analysis of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments to the Constitution as they apply to criminal suspects and defendents.

CJ316 Criminal Evidence
The nature of evidence, its classification, admissibility, weight and relevance; the rial record and rules of evidence; hearsey and its exceptions; the constitutional issues in the gathering and introduction of evidence; expert and scientific evidence.  Prerequisites: CJ165 and CJ170.

CJ350 Research Techniques and Data Analysis in Criminal Justice
Methods of scientific inquiry in the field of criminal justice: theory and research; causation and validity; research design, conceptualization, operationalization and measurement, sampling; survey research, field research, agency records, content analysis, secondary data, and program evaluation and analysis of data. Prerequisite: CJ165.

CJ357 Infamous Crimes and Criminals
A survey of anti-social behavior manifested by infamous criminals including serial murderers, mass murderers, and organized crime members. The impact of these crimes on victims and society; the role of law enforcement agencies and profiling. Prerequisite: CJ165.

CJ358 White Collar Crime
Types of crime by the privileged: crimes of the professions: employee pilferage, embezzlement and fraud; corporate crime and the crimes of managers; political corruption and crimes of public officials. Techniques of investigation and prosecution for upper class defendants. Prerequisite: CJ165.

CJ359 Corruption
Analysis of deviance and criminal activities of corporations and government agencies. Sociological and psychological implications are discussed. Organizational processes of communication, power, socialization, group processes and ethics are analyzed. Prerequisite: CJ165.

CJ361 Special Topic: HIV/Aids Legal and Justice Perspectives
Discusses HIV and Aids laws and policies and their impact upon disdvantaged and special populations such as prisoners, minorities, and socioeconomically challenged.

CJ390 Criminal Law
Origins of the criminal law from the Napoleonic Code and the English common law; substantive and procedural criminal law. The new state penal codes. Prerequisites: CJ315, CJ316.

CJ395 Probation and Parole
Techniques, procedures and regulations of supervision of criminal offenders. Training and preparation of parole and probation officers. Prerequisite: CJ285.

CJ396 Community Policing
Police involvement in the community: regular and meaningful contact, quality of life conditions, problem solving and coordination with community service organizations. Crime information, investigation and prevention through community relations. Prerequisite: CJ175.

CJ400 Police Administration
The management of law enforcement agencies, recruitment and testing, training and supervision, evaluation and promotion, research and planning, budget management, and coordination with other municipal agencies. Prerequisite: CJ175.

CJ401 Security Administration (Contact Chairman for course description.)

CJ/El404 Crime and Punishment in Literature (See English Department for course description.)

CJ405 Crime Investigation
Primary crime investigation, preservation of the crime scene and identification of witnesses. Secondary investigation; use of computerized data bases, development of witnesses, role of informants, criminalistics and the role of the evidence laboratory. Prerequisite: CJ175.

CJ406 Homicide: Investigation and Prosecution
Crime scenes: physical evidence and witnesses, constructing the scenario. Prosecution: case evaluation, pretrial and grand jury. Plea bargaining and trial strategies. Prerequisite: CJ175.

CJ418 Introduction to Forensics in Criminal Justice
The basic concepts of forensic science emphasizing recognition, evaluation, and utilization of physical evidence. The significance of forensics; types, classification, collection and preservation of evidence; rules governing scientific and physical evidence and expert testimony.

CJ419 Terrorism and Threat Assessments
Provides students interested in intelligence research with a fundamental knowledge of terrorism theory, statutes, and groups.  Emphasizes entites with access to radiological, biological, and chemical weapons.  Prerequisite: CJ170 or CJ240.

CJ420 Drugs, Society and Human Behavior
Processes of interaction through which substance abusing careers are developed and maintained, substance abusers and crime, impact upon families and communities, and organized public response. Prerequisite: CJ165 or CJ250.

CJ435 Police Patrol
The police mission in a democratic multicultural society: staffing, management and rewards for routine patrol. Traffic, calls for assistance, crimes in progress calls. Tactics and strategies. Prerequisite: CJ175.

CJ441 Careers in Criminal Justice
Career opportunities in the highly glamorized but often misunderstood field of criminal justice at the municipal, state, county and federal levels. Students will explore their own goals and the connection of their goals to the many careers in the criminal justice system.

CJ452 Coke, Crack, Ice and Smack: Seminar in Substance Abuse
An examination of the social, political and public health ramifications of substance abuse. Inconsistencies in public attitudes; the impact of public policy; and techniques of rehabilitation. Prerequisite: CJ165.

CJ489 Seminar in Criminal Justice
The capstone course for the Criminal Justice major. This course allows students the opportunity to explore career options prior to graduation, or to pursue a special topic within the criminal justice arena. Prerequisites: CJ165, CJ170, CJ350.

CJ491 Physical Threat Assessment and Protective Intelligence
Provides students with a foundation in physical security planning, surveillance and counter-surveillance techniques, target risk assessment, and dignitary planning and route analysis. Also examines the psychology of hostile forces.

CJ496 Special Research Projects I
Affords students the opportunity to work on special research projects with department faculty.

CJ497 Special Research Projects II
Affords students the opportunity to work on special research projects with department faculty.