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CRJ 1010 - Introduction to Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is a basic study of all components of the criminal justice system in the United States. Topics include concepts of law and crime; the criminal justice process; overview of criminal justice agencies; current criminal justice issues, and interactions and conflicts between criminal justice agencies.
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CRJ 1030 - Introduction to Law Enforcement Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: Survey of the role of policing in society, including historical evolution of the concepts and methods, as well as analysis of the effectiveness of traditional and non-traditional techniques.
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CRJ 1040 - Introduction to Security Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: Comparative examination of the relationship of the criminal justice system and business and industrial security. An overview of the administrative, personnel, and physical aspects of the security field.
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CRJ 1050 - Introduction to Corrections Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: Trends and developments in all elements of a modern correctional system for the treatment of juvenile and adult offenders.
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CRJ 1060 - Introduction to Criminology Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: Causes and patterns of criminal and deviant behavior; methods of treatment and prevention.
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CRJ 3000 - Constitutional Law Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is an intense analysis of federal and state court decisions that interpret the United States Constitution as to the authority and process of criminal justice agencies. Topics include a historical overview; the Bill of Rights; trial and punishment; civil remedies and constitutional conduct; constitutional and civil rights in the workplace.
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CRJ 3010 - Criminal Law Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is a generic study of criminal law in the United States, and does not cover any specific federal or state law. Topics include principles of criminal law; principles of criminal liability; complicity; inchoate crimes; defenses; justifications; excuses; crimes against persons; crimes against property; crimes against public order.
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CRJ 3020 - Criminal Evidence Procedure Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is a in-depth examination of criminal evidence rules in the United States. Topics include trial procedures; examination of witnesses; real/physical evidence; circumstantial evidence; hearsay evidence and exceptions; privileged communications; declarations against interests and judicial notice.
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CRJ 3030 - Terrorism and the Law Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is an in-depth analysis of federal and state law as they pertain to the study of terrorism. Topics include search and seizure issues; privacy laws; the Patriot Act; Constitutional issues in reference to terrorism investigation/prevention; and criminal procedure.
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CRJ 3040 - International Law Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is an in-depth analysis of litigation of international law in U.S. courts. Topics to include sovereign’s immunity; international treaties; international courts, claims and adjudications. Norms for use of force; norms for control of terrorism; War Powers Act; National Defense Authorization Act; International Organizations; First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments will also be discussed.
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CRJ 3100 - Fundamentals of Cybercrime Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course offers an intense examination of network security defense techniques and countermeasures. Defense fundamentals are explained in great detail. Topics include network defense techniques, cybercrime and cyberspace law, cyberterrorism, infusion detection and incident response, disaster recovery, and computer forensics.
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CRJ 3210 - Medico-Legal Forensics Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This elective course examines the basic concepts of forensic science through advanced scientific crime-solving techniques such as establishing identity through human remains. Topics include forensic anthropology; odontology; radiology; serology; DNA tracing; medical examiner procedures; wound ballistics; and trauma examinations.
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CRJ 3220 - Criminal Investigations Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This elective course is an in-depth examination of one of the three cornerstones of traditional policing, criminal investigation. Topics include physical evidence; information sources; interviews and interrogations; eyewitness identifications; crime scene reconstruction; homicide investigations; burglaries; robberies; sex crime investigations; specialized investigations; and managing criminal investigations.
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CRJ 3300 - Ethics in Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: Ethics in Criminal Justice is an intense examination of the ethical considerations facing the criminal justice practitioner. Topics include determining moral behavior; developing moral and ethical behavior; ethics and law enforcement; ethics and the courts; ethics and corrections; the ethics of punishment; policy and management issues; professionalism; and pride and ethics for practitioners.
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CRJ 3400 - Terrorism Understanding Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is an in-depth examination of the different types of terrorism. Major topics include an overview of terrorism as a political weapon; defining terrorism; examining the causes of terrorism; precepts of domestic and international terrorism; and the religious foundations of terrorism.
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CRJ 3410 - Domestic Terrorism Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This is a study of the foundations of domestic terrorism with an examination of its history and case studies. Topics include current and active domestic groups; their organizational structure, philosophies and networks. The discussion will examine the interrelationships and interactions of presently known groups.
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CRJ 3420 - International Terrorism Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: Terrorism has become a political tool used against almost all nations of the world. The course will examine known terrorist groups throughout the world, including militant religious groups; religious zeolotry; and political groups. The Middle East will be examined in great detail.
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CRJ 3430 - Management of Incidents Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is a basic management course that could apply to all aspects of local and state governments, but concentrates on the law enforcement aspect. Topics include overall management techniques; coordination of resource efforts; the National Incident Management System, and the Unified Command System. Related topics include mutual aid pacts, cooperative efforts with local industry, and manpower and resource management.
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CRJ 3435 - Maritime Security Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: An examination of regulations, vulnerabilities, and threats relating to commercial maritime transportation, including cargo and seaport as well as issues of piracy, stowaways, drug smuggling, and terrorism.
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CRJ 3440 - Crime Prevention Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course is an in-depth examination of both strategic and tactical methods of preventing existing and new forms of crime, including terrorism, related topics include target identification, target protection techniques, and information assimilation and analysis.
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CRJ 3505 - Report Writing and Interviewing Technology Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: Types and purposes of reports, initial report, opening statement, body, ending, progress report, final report, summary, proof, substantiation, investigator’s conclusions, attachments, supplemental report, mechanics of report writing, using notes, key points, persons involved, evidence collected, facts, paragraphs, tense the who, what, where, how and why elements, objectivity and directness; helping the reader; and critique and revise. Interview and interrogation compared, dealing with the uncooperative, the processes of interviewing and interrogating, obtaining facts, semantics, evaluating the situation, using psychology, perception, memory and stress, prejudice and reluctance, fear and resentment, gaining respect, using an observer, dealing with victims and witnesses, preparing for the interview, mental preparation for the interview, conducting the interview and knowing what to ask and when.
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CRJ 4000 - Law Enforcement Administration Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This elective course is a study of the organization, management, and administration of law enforcement agencies. Topics include police administration in the political arena; organizational theory; police organizational structure; leadership; organizational improvement.
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CRJ 4011 - Issues in Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
Description: This course involves specialized research into a current issue in criminal justice.
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CRJ 4030 - Comparative Criminal Justice/Homeland Security Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course examines the nature of crime, justice, and security in varying countries and cultures throughout the world with the United States used as a standard of comparison. Focus is on the peculiarities as well as the universals in comparative framework.
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CRJ 4040 - Global Jihad and U. S. Homeland Security Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course appraises Islamist resurgence/terrorism in local, regional and global perspectives, with special reference to its impact on U. S. Homeland Security. It examines the rise and growth of jihadism in the Muslim World and beyond in historical, socio-economic, political and cultural perspectives, and focuses as to how governance and identity crises in Muslim-majority countries and the Cold War and post-Cold War exigencies affected Islamism and terror outfits like al Qaeda, Taliban, Boko Haram, LeT, and the ISIS.
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CRJ 4050 - Criminal Profiling Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This is an advanced course in applied criminology. Topics include case management, database development, typology validation, motive and pattern analysis, personality assessment, forensic demography, principles of geo-coding, statistical prediction, and the ethics of provocation, interview and interrogation strategies.
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CRJ 4125 - Intelligence Analysis Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course covers both foreign and domestic intelligence gathering and analysis, with an emphasis upon analytic procedures for protection against terrorism, transnational crime, organized crime, white collar crime, gang crime, and threats to personal and public safety.
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CRJ 4200 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This elective course enables the program to address the very latest issues in law enforcement. Special Topics in Criminal Justice is a seminar course on current issues such as racial profiling; control of terrorism versus individual liberties; and the effectiveness of habitual criminal statutes.
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CRJ 4210 - Gangs in Society Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CRJ 1010
Description: This elective course examines the problem of gangs in society. Topics include why gangs form, why people and society’s response to the problem.
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CRJ 4220 - White Collar Crime Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Cross Listed LDSP 4220
Description: The study of contemporary forms of white collar crime and its explanations, theories, and accounts along with its investigation, adjudication, and regulation.
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CRJ 4230 - Criminal Justice in Popular Culture Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CRJ 1010
Description: This elective course examines the portrayal of criminal justice in film, television, literature and mass media. In addition, these media are used to illustrate perspectives relevant to criminal justice.
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CRJ 4860 - Criminal Justice Internship and Practicum Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Declared major in criminal justice, senior standing, and permission of the department
Description: This course involves work experience with a cooperating criminal justice agency, public or private. Students must complete at least 160 contact hours during the semester. Students are required to complete documentation requirements and attend two formal meetings during the course of the internship. A major written project relating to the internship experience is required.
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