21&62:202:201Introduction to Criminal Justice (3) Societal responses to people and organizations that violate criminal codes; police, courts, juries, prosecutors, defense, and correctional agencies, and the standards and methods used to respond to crime and criminal offenders; social pressures that enhance or impair the improvement of criminal laws and the fair administration of criminal justice. |
21&62:202:202Gender, Crime, and Justice (3) An in-depth survey of changing social values about gender, changing criminal codes about sex crimes, changing law enforcement policies and procedures in prosecuting sex offenders, and emerging legal doctrines about privacy and sexual rights. |
21&62:202:203The Police and the Community (3) The function of police in contemporary society; the problems arising between citizens and police from the enforcement and nonenforcement of laws, from social changes, and from individual and group police attitudes and practices. |
21&62:202:204Corrections (3) Examines and analyzes the major types of custodial and community-based criminal corrections in contemporary America. Discusses purposes of corrections, correctional organization, impact of corrections, and contemporary issues facing the field. |
21&62:202:301White-Collar Crime (3) Crimes organized by persons whose economic, political, and privileged positions facilitate the commission; relative impunity of unusual crimes that are often national and international in scope and that have serious, long-term consequences. |
21&62:202:302Constitutional Issues in Criminal Justice (3) Examines the Bill of Rights as it pertains to criminal justice practices and procedures. Also analyzes the important judicial opinions, trials, and congressional investigations and reports concerning criminal justice laws, policies, and practices. |
21&62:202:303Criminology (3) Crime and criminal behavior, theories, and research. Causes of crime. Crime rates. United States and international comparisons. |
21&62:202:304Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (3) Causes and rates of delinquent behavior. The nature and operation of the juvenile justice system. International comparisons. |
21&62:202:305Case Processing: The Law and the Courts (3) The criminal laws and judicial opinions that influence the policies, procedures, personnel, and clients of the criminal justice system in New Jersey; the origin, development, and continuing changes in criminal law, administration of criminal justice, and the state's criminal courts. |
21&62:202:306Community Corrections (3) The theory and practice of major community-based correctional responses (such as probation, parole, and diversion programs) to convicted criminal offenders; community corrections as an important social movement and the countermovement to abolish the parole function. |
21&62:202:307Culture and Crime (3) Anthropological approach to crime as a pattern of social behavior. Crime and punishment in other societies, especially non-Western societies that lack institutional systems of criminal justice; the social evolution of crime and crime-related institutions in U.S. history; anthropological studies of people and organizations on both sides of the crime problem. |
21&62:202:401Contemporary Problems in Policing (3) Critical law enforcement problems, including organized crime, alcohol, drugs, policing of civil and natural disturbances, and the diffusion and multiplicity of police agencies; crime reporting, assessment difficulties, and the public reaction; the administrative problems of staffing, supervision, employee morale and militancy, and public charges. Prerequisite: 21&62:202:203. |
21&62:202:402Contemporary Problems in Corrections (3) The impact of alternatives to incarceration, the growing prisoner
rights movement, strikes by correctional employees, and public
resentment toward persistently high rates of recidivism. Special study
of issues concerning correctional education, job training, work
release, and postincarceration employment.Prerequisite: 21&62:202:204. |
21&62:202:403Comparative Criminal Justice Systems (3) Approaches to law enforcement, criminal procedure and criminal law, corrections, and juvenile justice; worldwide overview of cultural and legal traditions related to crime. Prerequisites: 21&62:202:201 and 203. |
21&62:202:404Criminal Justice: Ethical and Philosophical Foundations (3) Ethical and philosophical issues and moral dilemmas within the field of criminal justice, including principles of justice, deontology and utilitarianism, philosophical issues in sentencing, police and ethics, ethics and research, and the scope of state control. Prerequisites: 21&62:202:201, 303, and 21:62:350:101,102. |
21&62:202:405Research Seminar in Criminal Justice (3) Develops rudimentary tools needed for conducting research and writing reports and scholarly papers in criminal justice. Prerequisites: 21&62:202:201 and 303, or special permission. |
21&62:202:406Independent Study in Criminal Justice (3) Independent research or special project under faculty supervision. Prerequisite: 21&62:202:405 or special permission. |
21&62:202:407Topics in Criminal Justice (3) Current issues and problems; topics vary. May be taken more than once for different topics. |
21&62:202:413Internship in Criminal Justice (BA) Prerequisites: Special permission and junior or senior standing. |
