Course Listing
Note: The letter Q in the course number designates writing-intensive courses.
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21&62:202:101
Crime and Crime Analysis (3)
Examines criminal acts as events, where and when they occur, how they
occur, who is present or absent, and how they can be prevented. This is a very practical course which looks at specific types of crime
in specific settings. Discusses problem-oriented policing,
situational crime prevention, crime analysis, environmental criminology,
crime risks, and crime prevention through environmental design.
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21&62:202:102
Criminology (3)
Crime and criminal behavior, theories, and research. Addresses the causes of crime and crime rates. United States and international comparisons are provided.
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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. Includes 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)
Develops rudimentary tools needed for conducting research and writing reports and scholarly papers in criminal justice.
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21&62:202:302
Data Analysis in Criminal Justice (4)
Examines the various types of data used within criminal justice and the fundamentals of statistics and analysis. Provides an analysis of the appropriate use of data, the limits of various methods, how data is collected, and how to interpret findings. Policy implications of data will also be discussed.
Prerequisite: 21&62:202:301 and the basic undergraduate math requirement.
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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&62:202:321
Environmental Criminology (3)
Environmental criminology considers how the everyday environment provides opportunities for
crime as well as obstacles for carrying it out. It provides important means for reducing crime by modifying or planning the built environment, and designing products and places so crime is less opportune. Moreover, it offers an alternative theory of crime based on the opportunity to carry it out.
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21&62:202:322
Business and Crime (3)
Business is central for crime in a modern society. A majority of crimes are against business, by business, or affected closely by business. Indeed, businesses organize daily activities that lead to crime opportunities and victimization for ordinary citizens, including their own employees and customers. Finally, businesses sometimes engage in criminal activity. This course examines the many
roles that business takes in crime and can take in preventing crime.
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21&62:202:323
Cybercrime (3)
Cybercrime includes illicit attacks on personal computers, on computer systems, on people
via computers, and more. It includes theft of information via computers, spreading of harmful code, stealing credit and other information, and more. Cybercrime can also occur at a very low technical level. This course examines the variety of cybercrime, its prevention, and its significance for law enforcement.
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21&62:202:324
Violent Crime (3)
Provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between violence and criminal behavior. Assesses the theoretical bases of violence by looking at anthropological, biological, and sociological explanations. Looks at violence within the context of individual, group, and societal behavior.
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21&62:202:331
Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (3)
Explores the causes and rates of delinquent behavior. Looks at the nature and operation of the juvenile justice system. Provides 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 explores how race is related to offending, victimization, and various interactions with the criminal justice system. The course considers how race is defined, as well as racial differences in patterns and trends. The course critically examines explanations
of these racial differences.
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21&62:202:334
Organized Crime (3)
Provides students a historical and theoretical overview of organized crime as well as a 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&62:202:341Q
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.
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21&62:202:342Q
Contemporary 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.
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21&62:202:343Q
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.
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21&62:202:344Q
Crime in Different Cultures (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.
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21&62:202:345Q
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.
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