27:202:510Criminology (3) Provides an overview of the nature and scope of delinquency and crime problems; considers problems of the assessment and measurement of delinquency and crime; surveys available theoretical formulations concerning criminal and delinquent behavior. |
27:202:511Theories of Crime and Criminality (3) Wide survey of criminological theories using original sources. Included are theories that derive from biological, psychological, sociological, geographic, economic, and political perspectives. Development of criminological theory reviewed; fundamental distinctions between classical and positivist theories and between theories of crime and criminality discussed. Relationship between theory and policy considered along with the prospects for developing a true general theory. |
27:202:512Measurement and Correlates of Crime (3) Review and critique of major sources of data for measuring crime and victimization: official records, surveys of crime victimization in households and individuals, and self-report methods. Data collection procedures and sources for each data source analyzed, and sources of measurement error identified. Analysis of procedures for aggregating and reporting data and for measuring crime rates. Review of patterns and trends over time in specific forms of crime; identifying geographic and demographic correlates according to each data source. Factors influencing disparities and convergence between data sets analyzed. Crime rates compared for U.S. and international data, as well as for specific regions within the United States. Prerequisites: 27:202:510, 540, 542. |
27:202:513Current Issues in Criminal Justice (3) Theory and research analyzed on the basis of selected topics, depending upon student interest and current issues. |
27:202:514Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime (3) Seminar providing review of contemporary knowledge on the many drug-crime relationships. Survey of articles that represent dominant views and consideration of alternative perspectives; criticism of empirical research and theory. Survey of the literature examines theory, research, intervention strategies, and crime control policies. Both adolescent and adult behaviors examined, and varieties of licit and illicit drugs associated with crime and delinquency considered. Prerequisites: 27:202:510, 522, 540. |
27:202:516Offender Rehabilitation (3) Analysis of research evidence on the effectiveness of clinical treatment in outpatient settings and at correctional facilities in rehabilitating offenders. Topics include definition of target and criterion behaviors in offender rehabilitation; legal constraints and judicial requirements in the inpatient treatment of offenders; individual and group psychotherapy; behavior modification; educational methods; and multimodal approaches in the treatment of offenders in jails, reformatories, prisons, and outpatient settings. Prerequisites: Adequate clinical background and permission of instructor. |
27:202:517Violent Crime (3) Investigates and analyzes aggression and violence as forms of individual, group, and societal behavior. Includes an assessment of anthropological, biological, philosophical, political, and sociological theories. Combines student presentations and projects with lectures and tutorials. Prerequisites: 27:202:510, 540, 542. |
27:202:518Advanced Criminological Theory (3) Contemporary criminological theories analyzed and evaluated. Assessments of theoretical advances, including theory integration and general theories of crime. Prerequisite: 27:202:510. |
27:202:520Criminal Justice System (3) Provides a foundation and overview of the criminal justice system and process. Focuses on critical decisions, with an emphasis on contemporary issues, controversies, and trends. |
27:202:521Law in the Criminal Justice System (3) Provides an overview of criminal law and procedure. Introduces statutory and case law reasoning, as well as empirical information. Uses the area of the criminal law dealing with the insanity defense, the definitional elements of common law crimes, and the aims of the criminal law and procedure. |
27:202:522Criminal Justice Policy Planning and Evaluation (3) Focus on policy planning, program development, and program evaluation in criminal justice. Fundamentals in each of these three areas (as derived from applications in business, human services, and social welfare) are reviewed and then fit to criminal justice. Comprehensive policy planning proposal developed to deal with a carefully defined criminal justice problem or need. Prerequisites: 27:202:520, 521, 540, 542; basic knowledge of research methods/statistics. Recommended: 27:202:530. |
27:202:531Probation, Parole, and Intermediate Sanctions (3) An analysis of the theory and practice of probation, parole, and intermediate sanctions. Emphasis on understanding functions of probation, parole, and intermediate sanctions as human-service organizations. Special attention given to policy developments in the field. |
27:202:532Adult Incarceration (3) Traces the historical development of institutions for confinement and analyzes present trends in correctional practice. Reviews characteristics of various correctional policies, and analyzes prison life. Special emphasis on current trends and controversies. |
27:202:533Policing (3) Examines the police role and law enforcement policy. Looks at police organization, personnel issues, management, and operations, as well as coordination and consolidation of police service, police integrity, and community relations. |
27:202:534Prosecution and the Courts (3) Reviews functions and practices of prosecutors, with special preference to analyzing the interrelationships among charging, conviction, and sentencing. Also examines these issues in relation to the functions of police and probation staff members. Provides an overview of court goals, functions, and the potential for system reform. (Formerly 27:202:631) |
27:202:535Juvenile Justice (3) Focus on history and philosophy of juvenile justice, landmark court cases, police handling of juveniles, the juvenile court, and juvenile corrections and rehabilitation. (Formerly 27:202:534) |
27:202:536Comparative Criminal Justice Systems (3) Examines world crime and criminal justice surveys of the United Nations; analyzes the relationship between crime rates and different criminal justice systems, as well as socioeconomic development indicators. In-depth analysis of different approaches to law enforcement, criminal procedure and criminal law, and juvenile justice and corrections worldwide. (Formerly 27:202:512) |
27:202:540Research Methods in Criminal Justice (3) Provides an introduction to research design as applied to problems in crime and criminal justice. Includes an introduction to the scientific method, basic research designs, and data collection techniques. Corequisite: 27:202:542. |
27:202:541Foundations of Scholarship (3) Develops rudimentary tools needed for conducting research and for writing reports and scholarly papers in the field of criminal justice. Explores approaches to writing a research paper, report writing, forms of documentation, library resources, data sources, presentation techniques, legal research, and computer usage. Prerequisites: 27:202:540, 542. |
27:202:542Introductory Statistics (3) Provides an introduction to elementary statistical methods as applied to problems in crime and criminal justice. Includes introduction to problems of data description, data analysis, hypothesis testing and inference, and introduction to the use of computers. (Formerly 27:202:544) |
27:202:543Intermediate Statistics (3) Provides students with sufficient theoretical background and practical experience to enable them to analyze multivariate interval and ratio-level data. (Formerly 27:202:667) |
27:202:550Master's Essay (3) Culminates in the completion of the master`s essay for those students electing the essay option. (Formerly 27:202:542) |
27:202:555J.D./M.A. Degree Essay (6) The 6-credit paper is the heart of the joint-degree program. It is intended to ensure that the cross-fertilization of disciplines actually occurs. (Formerly 27:202:545) |
27:202:556Fieldwork in Criminal Justice (3) Firsthand experience in the day-to-day operation of a criminal justice program under the guidance and supervision of a faculty member and a practitioner in field placement. Prerequisite: 12 credits of course work completed prior to enrollment. Interested students should meet with their adviser for further information. |
27:202:610Crime Control Theory and Research (3) Seminar in which students analyze theory and research on crime control. Topics reviewed include theories of deterrence and social control, their applications in crime control strategies, and the impacts of crime control strategies, based on general and specific deterrence and on incapacitation strategies. Reviews and critiques research on the effects of criminal and civil legal sanctions and problems in implementing effective sanctions. Methodological issues in research on crime control assessed. Research on applications of crime control theory to specific crime problems reviewed. Prerequisites: 27:202:510, 540, 542. |
27:202:612White Collar Crime (3) Surveys the history and scope of study of white collar crime. Discusses issues of definition, examines empirical evidence, and reviews the contributions of white collar crime studies. (Formerly 27:202:655) |
27:202:614Communities and Crime (3) Surveys and analyzes literature on the demography and ecology of crime. Includes reviews of research and theories that address the influences of economics, demography, social organization, and political economy on crimes within cities and neighborhoods. Combines student presentations of published articles with lectures, tutorials, and student projects. (Formerly 27:202:527) Prerequisites: 27:202:510, 540, 542. |
27:202:615Maritime Crime and Its Prevention (3) Seminar that focuses on crime and crime prevention on the oceans and waterways that carry the bulk of the world`s commerce. Analysis of the resurgence of piracy and barratry, seaborne narcotics smuggling, terrorism at sea, and thefts of boats and vessels. Also examines and analyzes marine insurance fraud, fisheries offenses, ocean pollution, and common criminality at sea. Capacity of existing law enforcement agencies to confront these problems and prospects for international cooperation to deal with criminality at sea evaluated. (Formerly 27:202:653) |
27:202:616Environmental Crime Prevention (3) Theoretical background to an opportunity-reducing approach to crime fighting. Examines key concepts of rational choice and displacement. Looks at impact of environmental design, defensible space, and problem-oriented policing on preventing crime. Case studies illustrate the practical and policy difficulties of situational prevention. (Formerly 27:202:537) |
27:202:619Organized Crime (3) Defines organized crime, looks at its history, and examines criminological theories that seek to explain it. Covers nontraditional or so-called emergent organized crime groups, such as urban street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs. Examines various investigation, prosecution, and sentencing policies, and considers the policy implications for the future. (Formerly 27:202:656) |
27:202:621Sentencing (3) Deals with the aims of sentencing convicted adult offenders. Discusses criticisms of the traditional rehabilitation-oriented view of sentencing and considers alternative sentencing theories, including incapacitative, deterrence, and "just deserts" models. Also examines techniques for limiting sentencing discretion, including mandatory minimum sentences, presumptive sentences, sentencing guidelines, and noncustodial penalties. (Formerly 27:202:632) |
27:202:624Criminal Procedure and the Constitution (3) Advanced seminar on institutions, phases, and procedural rules of the criminal justice process. Emphasizes critical evaluation of assumptions, realities, purpose, and effects. (Formerly 27:202:612) |
27:202:625Law and Society (3) Sociology of law; some emphasis also on jurisprudential thought and the political analysis of legal institutions. Exploration of the sources of law and functions and dysfunctions of law in action. Review of institutional roles of courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies. Includes topics of particular current interest, such as alternative dispute resolution, how the law can help or impede social change, whether Americans have become too litigious, and race and gender issues in achieving justice. |
27:202:631Politics in Criminal Justice (3) Deals with crime as a political issue and examines how conflicting political philosophies influence criminal justice policy. (Formerly 27:202:516) |
27:202:640Advanced Research Methods (3) Analyzes research strategies and methods for research in criminal justice and criminology. Includes analysis of links between theories and methods. Provides detailed review of quantitative and qualitative methods, including research design, sampling, measurement, data collection, and ethical concerns. Prerequisites: 27:202:540, 542; basic knowledge of research design in the social sciences. |
27:202:641Advanced Statistical Methods (3) Covers theoretical foundations of general statistical approaches, such as least squares analysis, maximum likelihood estimation, and Bayesian estimation; examines mathematical foundations for statistics (e.g., matrix algebra and probability theory) and looks at such selected advanced statistical or mathematical techniques for the analysis of criminal justice research problems as log-linear analysis, failure-rate analysis, and network analysis. Prerequisites: 27:202:540, 542. |
27:202:645Advanced Scholarship (3) Preparation of a paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. All aspects of paper presentation addressed, and the differences between a paper for publication in a journal and other forms of professional writing, such as proposal and report writing, explored. May include synthesis of literature to prepare core area plan. Prerequisite: 27:202:541 or enrollment in the doctoral program. |
27:202:648Qualitative Research Methods (3) Ethnographic and qualitative field methods and their application to problems of crime and criminal justice. Includes definition of appropriate research problems, data collection and interviewing, and participant observation; also examines ethical issues of protection of human subjects, coding and analysis of qualitative data, inductive theory construction, presentation of findings, and coordinating qualitative with quantitative methods. Requires collection and analysis of some original data. Includes microcomputer-based qualitative data analysis techniques. Prerequisites: 27:202:510, 540, 542. |
27:202:650Independent Study (3) Study under the supervision and guidance of a faculty member. (Formerly 27:202:610) |
27:202:651Teaching Practicum in Criminal Justice (3) Under faculty supervision, doctoral students are assigned to instruct undergraduate criminal justice courses within county, private, and state colleges, and in divisions of the university. Placements are made by the supervising faculty member and the cooperating institution. Instructional placements are not guaranteed. |
26:202:701,702,703,704Dissertation Research in Criminal Justice (3,3,3,BA) Required of all students involved in preparation, data collection, and writing of the Ph.D. doctoral thesis. |
27:202:800Matriculation Continued: Ph.D. (E1) |
27:202:877Teaching Assistantship (E-BA) Students who hold teaching assistantships are required to enroll in this course for 3 or 6 E credits per term. |
