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BACHELOR OF ARTS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
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A comprehensive bachelor degree program for peace officers and law enforcement personnel. Also available to pre-law students and investigation or journalism majors.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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- 120 semester/180 quarter credits
- Critical Analysis, Annoitated Bibliography, Proposal and Thesis
- 25% of studies in general education
- 25%-50% concentration from the core curriculum.
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PREREQUISITES:
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An associate degree or the equivalent in the same, or in a related area, plus some working experience.
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM:
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(CORE REQUIREMENTS)
Public Policy and the Criminal Justice System
Social and Legal Dynamics of Child Abuse
Delinquency Prevention and Control
Public Law
Strategies for Crime Control
Sociology of Crime
Computers and Research
Comparative Administration
Police Service in the Community
Law Enforcement Operational Information Systems
Principles of Loss Prevention
Traffic Control
Adminstraton of Justice
Criminal Law
Advanced Criminology
Juvenile Corrections
The Juvenile Justice System
Comparative Criminal Justice System
Constitutional Law
The Courts and Basic Criminal Procedure
Criminology
Juvenile Delinquency
The American Police System
Introduction to Criminal Justice |
COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI
1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 315
Title: Public Policy and the Criminal Justice System
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Criminal Justice, 3rd ed., Joel Samaha
- Introduction to Criminal Justice, 6th ed., Joseph L. Senna, Larry J. Siegel
- Criminal Justice: An Overview, 3rd ed., Alexander Smith, Harriet Pollack
- American Justice: Research of the National Institute of Justice, Larry J. Siegel
- Crime & Justice in America: A Human Perspective, 3rd ed., Leonard Territo, James Halsted, Max Bromley
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- Course Objectives: Student will gain knowledge of how public policy and the criminal justice system work together.
- Course Description: Interrelationship of criminal justice system components and the political setting surrounding the formulation and administration of public policies for crime control.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 316
Title: Social and Legal Dynamics of Child Abuse
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have a good working knowledge of the social and legal dynamics of child abuse.
- Course Description: Dynamics and psychopathology of child abuse both in terms of its incidence and impact on the family, society, and the numerous social and legal agencies involved in the detection, processing and treatment of both the child abusers and the abused.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 317
Title: Delinquency Prevention and Control
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have acquired a thorough knowledge of delinquency prevention and control.
- Course Description: Review of law enforcement administrative and judicial procedures in processing of juveniles. Evaluation of law-enforcement approaches to police-juvenile contracts. Cultural influences which affect delinquent and criminal behavior. Various forms of criminality are considered, as are studies dealing with the frequency of crime in different places and at different times.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 318
Title: Public Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Criminal Law & Procedures, 2nd ed., John M. Scheb, J.D., LLM, John M. Scheb II
- Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional, 5th ed., John N. Ferdico
- Criminal Procedure, J. Schott Harr & Karen M. Hess
- The Trial: A Procedural Description adn Cast Study, Howard Myers, Jan Pudlow
- Criminal Procedure, 2nd ed., Joel Samaha
- Criinal Procedure, Marvin Zalman, Larry J. Siegel
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- Course Objectives: Student will have acquired a thorough knowledge of public law.
- Course Description: The history and development of criminal law and social control. Salient principles of law which have application to police work, organization and jurisdiction of courts administering criminal law. Definition of crimes, their requisite elements and the penalties provided.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 338
Title: Strategies for Crime Control
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have acquired a thorough knowledge and have skills that will be useful in strategies for crime control.
- Course Description: Substantive criminal justice literature in interplexing basic issues of crime control strategies, implicit and explicit in public policies as they relate to theories of crime causation theories of deterrence and prevention of criminal behavior.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 339
Title: Sociology of Crime
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will be knowledgeable about the causes of crime and will understand treatment of adult offenders and have a good knowledge of parole and probation.
- Course Description: Theories of crime causes and treatment of convicted adult offender with reference to history and philosophy of punishment operation of prison systems, probation and parole.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 319
Title: Computers and Research
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed skills and have knowledge of how to use the computer in research.
- Course Description: Introduction to computing, data processing and computer utilization for research; comnputer languages, library programs and their use; job control language.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 320
Title: Comparative Security Systems
1.4 Recommended Text List:
Introduction to Private Security, 3rd ed., Karen M. Hess, Henry M. Wrobleski
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a thorough knowledge of security systems.
- Course Description: Security systems and their requirements in specific areas; banks, governmental hospital and transportation security programs and computerized systems.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 321
Title: Correctional Administration
1.4 Recommended Text List:
Community-Based Corrections: Probation, Parole, and Intermediate Sanctions, 3rd ed., Paul Cromwell, George G. Killinger
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a thorough knowledge of the correctional administration system.
- Course Description: In depth study of the administration and organization of federal, state and local correctional systems; the correctional process, client treatment. Models and alternatives to incarceration.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 322
Title: Police Service in the Community
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Management & Supervision in Law Enforcement, Wayne W. Bennett, Karen M. Hess
- Policing: An Introduction to Law Enforcement, John S. Dempsey
- Police Operations, Karen M. Hess & Henry M. Wrobleski
- Community Policing: Theory and Practice
- Introduction to Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice, 4th ed., Henry M. Wrobleski, Karen M. Hess
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained the necessary knowledge to make the police force a real service to the community.
- Course Description: Role of the police officer in relations to the customs and problems of the community. The administration responsibilities to ethnic and minority groups, comparative analysis of techniques being used by major police agencies to alleviate tensions.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 323
Title: Law Enforcement Operational Information Systems
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Management & Supervison in Law Enforcement, Wayne W. Bennett and Karen M. Hess
- Policing: An Introduction to Law Enforcement, John S. Dempsey
- Introduction to Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice, 4th ed., Henry M. Wrobleski, Karen M. Hess
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a good knowledge of law enforcement operational systems.
- Course Description: The essentials of reporting and record keeping and their uses in management administration of record systems, introduction to electronic data processing.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 324
Title: Principles of Loss Prevention
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a thorough knowledge of the principles of loss prevention.
- Course Description: Overview of the functional operations of various specialized areas of security: theft, risk control, security and loss prevention management in proprietary and governmental institutions.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 325
Title: Traffic Control
1.4 Recommended Text List:
Introduction to Traffic Investigation & Enforcement, Aric Steven Frazier
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- Course Objectives: Student will have acquired the necessary essentials of traffic control.
- Course Description: Essentials of traffic law, organization of traffic functions, enforcement policies and procedures, identification and analysis of traffic problems and experiments in traffic control.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 326
Title: Administration of Justice
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a thorough knowledge of adminstration of justice.
- Course Description: Criminal justice system related to social justice for beginning students in law enforcement, criminology, corrections, sociology, social welfare, government and urban affairs.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 327
Title: Criminal Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Criminal Law: Principles and Cases, 5th e'd., Thomas J. Gardner and Terry Anderson
- Criminal Law, 4th ed., Joel Samaha
- Criminal Law & Procedures, 2nd ed., John M. Scheb, John M. Scheb II
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a thorough knowledge of criminal law.
- Course Description: A survey of the nature and definiton of criminal acts, including aconsiderati8on of the elements of crimes against the person, crimes against property and crimes against society, responsibility for criminal conduct is also considered.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 329
Title: Advanced Criminology
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a good knowledge of advanced criminology.
- Course Description: An examination of the major theories of criminal behavior, including cultural influences which affect delinquent criminal behavior, various forms of criminality are considered, as are studies dealing with the frequency of crime in different places and at different times.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 330
Title: Juvenile Corrections
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Juvenile Justice, Robert Drowns, Karen M. Hess
- Juvenile Law: Cases & Comments, 2nd ed., Jose J. Senna, Larry J. Siegel
- Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice and Law, 5th ed., Joseph J. Senna, Larry J. Siegel.
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained an appropriate knowledge of the juvenile corrections systems.
- Course Description: An intensive study of the major aspects of juvenile corrections. This course deals with both the philosophy and practical application of probation and other non-institutional dispositions, as well as an analysis of juvenile institutions and their use, facility design and capabilities staffing decisions and consequences and program planning.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 331
Title: The Juvenile Justice System
1.4 Recommended Text List:
Juvenile Justice, Robert Drowns & Karen M. Hess
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained sufficient knowledge of the juvenile justice system to make a thorough analysis of the system in his/her state.
- This course will concern itself with procedural and substantive aspects of the juvenile justice system, including such areas as history and philosophy, intake, legal and social investigation, judicial and administrative decision-making, legal rights, roles of attorneys and definitive case law addressing system analysis.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 332
Title: Comparative Criminal Justice System
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Criminal Justice, 3rd ed., Joel Sumaha
- Introduction to Criminal Justice, 6th ed., Joseph J. Senna, Larry J. Siegel
- American Justice: Research of the National Institute of Justice, Larry J. Siegel
- Criminal Justice in America: A Human Perspective, 3rd ed., Leonard Territo, James Halsted, Max Bromley
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained sufficient knowledge of the juvenile justice system to make comparisons of counties and states.
- Course Description: This course provides an understanding of the criminal justice systems -- police, courts and corrections in selected areas.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 333
Title: Constitutional Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have acquired the basic fundamentals of constitutional law.
- Course Description: An overview of the development of the United States Constitution and principles governing its operation, while some attention is given to the structural consideration, primary emphasis is placed upon the area of civil liberties.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 334
Title: The Courts and Basic Criminal Procedure
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have a thorough knowledge of the courts and basic criminal procedure.
- Course Description: This course provides an introduction to courts, their legal basis, structure, jurisdiction, and operation; their interaction with other criminal agencies, and their interaction with other governmental agencies. The course also provides basic understanding of each stage of criminal procedure as viewed from the perspective of the courts, with special emphasis upon fundamental constitutional limitations.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 328
Title: Criminology
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Crime & Society: An Introduction to Criminaology, Christopher H. Birkbeck
- Criminology: Apply Theory, John E. Holman, James F. Quinn
- Criminology, 4th ed., Larry J. Siegel
- Criminology: Theories, Patterns & Typologies, 4th ed., Larry J. Siegel
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- Course Objectives: Student will have become knowledgeable in all areas of criminology.
- Course Description: A survey of criminological theory and practice, the nature and causes of crime, and the etiology and nature of criminal offenses and offenders.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 335
Title: Juvenile Delinquency
1.4 Recommended Text List:
Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice & Law, 5th ed., Joseph J. Senna & Larry J. Siegel
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- Course Objectives: Student will have become knowledgeable in factors affecting juvenile delinquency.
- Course Description: Biological, psychological and sociological factors in juvenile delinquency are considered as are modern trends in prevention and treatment.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 336
Title: The American Police System
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Police Operations, Karen M. Hess, Henry M. Wrobleski
- Management & Supervison in Law Enforcement, Wayne W. Bennett, Karen M. Hess
- Policing: An Introduction to Law Enforcement, John, S. Dempsey
- Introduction to Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice, 4th ed., Henry M. Wrobleski & Karen M. Hess.
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a thorough knowledge of the American police system.
- Course Description: A comprehensive survey of the history, organization and problems in American law enforcement agencies.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Criminal Justice
1.3 Course Number: CRM 337
Title: Introduction to Criminal Justice
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Criminal Justice, 3rd ed., Joel Samaha
- Introduction to Criminal Justice, 6th ed., Joseph J. Senna/Larry J. Siegel
- American Justice: Research fo the National Institute of Justice, Larry Siegel
- Criminal Justice: An Overview, 3rd ed., Alexander Smith & Harriet Pollack
- Crime & JUstice in America: A Human Perspective, 3rd ed., lornard Territo, James Halsted, Max Bromley
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained a good overview of the criminal justice system of the United States.
- Course Description: This course provides an understanding fo the progress and problems of the criminal justice system in the United States. Topics surveyed include the systems, history, its constitutional limitations, its philosophical background adn the process used to achieve goals.
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