This course is designed to give graduate students a strong foundation in the theoretical underpinnings of offender rehabilitation and to examine current knowledge about best practices in promoting offender change. Examines interventions and programs in the context of correctional settings and in the community. In addition, the mechanisms of change related to personal identity will be examined, as will strengths based approaches to change. Students should come away from the class with a sense of the state of the field concerning offender rehabilitation as well as practical concerns regarding program implementation and evaluation. The class will emphasize policy analysis and research experience.

The second course in a two-part graduate sequence introducing students to the major theories of crime and criminal justice. Examines contemporary theoretical contributions in criminology and criminal justice with the aim of familiarizing students with key research questions and assumptions of contemporary theoretical approaches, their core propositions and challenges for measurement/testing, as well as policy implications.

Provides doctoral students with a broad overview of criminal justice policies. Examines the goals and values underlying justice policy, the social construction of crime problems and the process of policy development, and the ways that policies shape the day-to-day working of the criminal justice system. It also investigates the specific institutions of the criminal justice system including the juvenile justice system, police, courts, and the correctional system, as well as the activities and processes carried out by these entities. The course will provide an overview of best practices for formulating and evaluating criminal justice policy.

Multidisciplinary overview of key institutions, processes, and policy issues regarding crime and justice. Includes readings and discussion on traditional criminal justice institutions and processes; the role of private sector and community organizations in crime control; law and justice policy in a federal system; crime prevention and institutional responses to crime; and emerging cross-national issues in crime, law, and policy.

Focuses on defining and analyzing problems commonly faced in justice and related agencies. Examples may be drawn from inmate classification systems, institution population models and prediction, crime analysis, case tracking and analysis for community corrections, and application of bail classification matrixes. Topics will include problem statement and formulation, fundamentals of statistics and data analysis, and documentation and principles of measurement.

Focuses on program planning and evaluation, for executives, managers, and planning and oversight agencies. Additional topics on statistics and other forms of analysis will be covered. Examines traditional evaluation designs and case studies, through an action research framework. Topics will include logic modeling, evaluating/assessing policies and programs, probability and nonprobability sampling, and overview of data collection techniques.

Examines the role of gender in crime, criminology, and criminal justice. The course framework and readings emphasize theoretical frameworks brought to bear in the study of gender, emphasizing the social structures and social constructions of gender; symbolic meaning systems; and intersections of race, class, and gender. Topics include the impact and nature of gender in crime commission, criminal victimization, and criminal justice processing.

This is the first course of a two-part graduate sequence in statistics, providing the background necessary for Intermediate Statistics. The topics to be covered include descriptive statistics, point and interval estimation, statistical inference, measures of association for discrete variables, and regression.  No previous knowledge of statistics is necessary; however the course assumes that students will eventually use statistics in their own research. The subject matter will be covered in enough depth for this to be possible.

The second course of a two-part graduate sequence in statistics. Introduction to the general linear model, including underlying assumptions and diagnostic tests. An introduction to the binary response model will also be provided. The use of the computer for data analysis will be an integral part of the course. 

This class examines major police innovations, such as community policing, broken windows policing, problem-oriented policing, pulling levers policing, third-party policing, hot spots policing, Compstat, and evidence-based policing. Considers the evidence on crime control and public safety impacts generated by these approaches, the extent of the implementation of these new approaches in police departments, dilemmas these approaches have created for police management, and critical issues that persist for the policing profession in launching effective crime control strategies such as race, community engagement, and police legitimacy.

Seminar. Analyzes theory and research on crime control, including 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, as well as incapacitation strategies. Review and critique of research on the effects of criminal and civil legal sanctions and problems in implementing effective sanctions. Methodological issues in the research on crime control assessed. Research on applications of crime control theory to specific crime problems reviewed.

Examines the risks and consequences of crime for its victims. Issues considered include victim-offender relationships, characteristics of victims, the nature of the injuries victims experience, and victim's involvement in criminal justice procedures.

This course is an examination of two transnational criminal enterprises--the smuggling and trafficking of persons--that draw on similar criminal groups, methods, and motives. Covers analytic approaches to studying the topics; the role of organized and other forms of crime to each; how agents operate in specific geographic contexts; and how state and non-state actors are responding to the smuggling and trafficking of persons.