21&62:202:101
Crime and Crime Analysis (3)
This course introduces the student to varieties of crime, where they occur, when, how, and with whom. It teaches how to become a crime analyst and how to think about crime in its everyday forms. Several types of criminal actions are explored, explained, and discussed.
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21&62:202:102
Criminology (3)
Crime and criminal behavior, theories, and research. Causes of crime. Crime rates. United States and international comparisons.
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21&62:202:103
Introduction 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.
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21&62:202:202
Gender, 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.
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21&62:202:203
Police and Society (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.
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21&62:202:204
Corrections (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.
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21&62:202:301
Criminal Justice Research Methods (4)
This course introduces criminal justice research methods including: how to obtain data, how to think about it, put it together, and present it. Diverse research sampling methods are described and discussed. Principles and problems of measurement are examined. Students are taught to define a research problem very specifically.
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21&62:202:302
Data Analysis in Criminal Justice (4)
This grounds students in the basic analysis tools in field of criminal justice. Included are the differences between samples and populations, and the importance of sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, statistical and inference, measures of association, tests of significance, and fundamentals of correlation, regression, and the general linear model.
Prerequisite: 21&62:202:301.
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21&62:202:310
Case 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.
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21&62:202:311
Constitutional 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.
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21&62:202:312
Comparative 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.
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21&62:201:321
Environmental Criminology (3)
How crime relates to the natural and built environment. Considers how the everyday environment provides opportunities and obstacles for carrying out crime; how offenders act to spoil or harm the environment; how products and places make crime less suitable.
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21&62:202:322
Business and Crime (3)
Considers crimes committed against business and by business. Takes into account employee and customer crimes and victimizations. Examines how business activities produce more crime or less, and the business role in crime reduction.
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21&62:202:323
Cybercrime (3)
How computers are used to commit various crimes; illicit attacks on personal computers, computer systems, and on people via their computers. Human and societal aspects of cybercrime, its prevention, and its significance for the justice system.
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21&62:202:324
Violent Crime (3)
This course considers interpersonal violent behavior as considered by criminal law. It covers major theories explaining violence, the methods used in scientific study of violence, and important research findings about correlates, patterns, processes, and trends related to criminal violence.
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21&62:202:331
Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (3)
Causes and rates of delinquent behavior. The nature and operation of the juvenile justice system. International comparisons.
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21&62:202:332
Juvenile Gangs and Co-Offending (3)
This course explores juvenile street gangs, when they exist, when they are illusory, and public reactions to them. It also considers co-offending by juveniles who are not necessarily gang members. The course considers what membership in a gang means and when gangs are cohesive or not. It examines variations among juvenile street gangs and contrasts these with other groups of co-offenders that are sometimes called "gangs."
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21&62:202:333
Race and Crime (3)
This course examines how race is related to offending, victimization, and various interactions with the criminal justice system. These interactions include crime reporting, policing, adjudication, and sanctions. Racial profiling issues are considered. The American case is emphasized, but minorities and crimes in other nations are also taken into account.
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21&62:202:334
Organized Crime (3)
This course provides students with a historical and theoretical overview of organized crime as well as specific understanding of its variety. Students will gain an understanding of the structures of organized crime and the varieties of businesses associated with traditional and nontraditional organized crime groups.
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21&62:202:341
Community 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.
Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102.
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21&62:202:342
Contemporary Policing (3)
This course examines various projects and experiments in policing for a modern context. It considers major alternatives for policing a modern society including community policing, broken-windows policing, problem-oriented policing, and hot-spots policing.
Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102.
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21&62:202:343
White-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.
Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102.
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21&62:202:344
Crime in Different Cultures (3)
This course compares crime and justice in different systems including the common law system, the Napoleonic system, and third-world systems. It considers examples from various regions of the world including Africa, Latin America, Northern America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Prerequisites: 21&62:350:101-102.
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21&62:202:345
Criminal 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&62:350:101-102.
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21&62:202:405
Research Seminar in Criminal Justice (3)
Develops rudimentary tools needed for conducting research and writing reports and scholarly papers in criminal justice.
Prerequisites: Special permission and junior or senior standing.
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21&62:202:406
Independent Study in Criminal Justice (3)
Independent research or special project under faculty supervision.
Prerequisites: Special permission and junior or senior standing.
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21&62:202:407
Topics in Criminal Justice (3)
Current issues and problems; topics vary. May be taken more than once for different topics.
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21&62:202:413
Internship in Criminal Justice (BA)
Prerequisites: Special permission and junior or senior standing.
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