Courses
Note: The letter Q in the course number designates writing-intensive courses.
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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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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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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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Cutting Edge of Criminology (3)
Provides students the opportunity to learn firsthand about our award-winning research--from its conceptualization to its real-world impact. Each week will feature a faculty speaker from SCJ. They will tell the stories of their own research--inspiration, methods, findings--and discuss how they tackle important problems that affect people's lives. The school's job is to be at the leading edge of intellectual thought and action about crime and justice, and this class is designed to stimulate students' thinking about how criminology can help do the work of justice.
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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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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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Reducing Local Crime (3)
When
urban governments and quasi-governmental activities do their jobs well,
they can greatly reduce various types of crime. This course relates
urban design and management to crime and crime reduction. Considers
public violence, abandonment, littering, public drunkenness,
environmental degradation, safe parks, secure streets and campuses,
robberies, teen hangouts, outdoor drug markets, and more. Students apply
problem-oriented policing, routine activity analysis, and situational
crime prevention to reducing local crime.
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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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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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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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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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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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47:202:301
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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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.
Prerequisites: 47:202:301 and the basic undergraduate math requirement.
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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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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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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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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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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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Race and Crime (3)
Explores how race is related to offending, victimization, and various interactions with the criminal justice system. 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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47:202:342Q
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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47:202:343Q
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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47:202:344Q
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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Contemporary 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.
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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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Juvenile Gangs and Co-Offending (3)
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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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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Crime Mapping (3)
A practical introduction to analyzing and mapping crime
and other public safety data using open-sourced and web-based
applications, as well as ArcGIS geographic information system (GIS)
software. Students will learn skills to make and analyze maps and will
develop a solid base upon which to build further expertise in crime
mapping and GIS.
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Youth Violence (3)
Understanding
and preventing youth violence is a major focus of the nation's policy
agenda and involves research and practice in the mental health, public
health, psychiatry, and criminal justice communities. This course will
focus on the assessment, development, prevention, and treatment of youth
violence among children and adolescents. Using a multidisciplinary
approach, we will review the biological, social, and psychological
underpinnings of youth violence and discuss how policymakers and
practitioners at all levels deal with this problem.
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Crime over the Life Span (3)
This
course examines the development of antisocial and criminal of behavior
from childhood through old age, including patterns of onset,
persistence, and desistance; what is known about why and how people
start and stop committing crime at various ages and the different types
of crime that are typically committed by people at different ages.
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Mass Incarceration and Collateral Consequences (3)
Since
1970, incarceration rates in the United States have quintupled and are
now higher than those in any other country in the world. These huge
increases in mass incarceration over a short period of time have
persisted through periods when crime was rising and even in the more
recent time periods when crime has been falling. Apart from the dubious
effects of mass incarceration on public safety suggested by these
divergent trends, mass incarceration also has substantial collateral
consequences across society, affecting families, communities, the labor
market, the military, political processes, and the use of taxpayer
dollars. This course examines trends in mass incarceration, their
sources, and their direct and indirect effects on society.
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Miscarriages of Justice (3)
Provides a critical and
interdisciplinary examination of the current functioning of the American
criminal justice system, focusing specifically on the procedures used
by various criminal justice actors that can lead to errors in case
processing and unjust outcomes. Students examine policies and practices of the
American criminal justice system (e.g., police procedure, prosecution,
jury selection, scientific evidence, appellate court procedures, etc.)
that unintentionally contribute to the wrongful apprehension,
prosecution, conviction, incarceration, and even execution of the
innocent. Students also explore the collateral consequences of punishing "false positives," including implications for undermining the
legitimacy of the criminal justice system and allowing impunity for
culpable offenders who remain at-large.
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