This course will focus on the most common agencies involved in running the criminal justice system on both the state and federal level. The organization of each agency will be examined with a detailed review of its function, administrative procedures, personnel, planning, budgeting, and record keeping.

Begins with a review of issues involving information, security, and the privacy of information; and proceeds to examine a broadening range of additional criminal threats, based upon actual cases. Includes a consideration of cybercrime, systems abuse, and the hacker culture; looks to issues of prevention and information security, with an emphasis on the need to take immediate steps against this likely criminal activity.

Looks at the relationship among the three main actors — the judiciary, the defense and the prosecution — involved in a prosecution. Starting from an overview of the basic structures of courts, the course will then look to the successive steps involved in prosecutions; covers plea bargains, trials, juries, sentencing, and appeals.

This course uses traditional educational methods and computer simulation to provide an understanding of the scientific theory as well as the actual practices and techniques used to process a crime scene. The student will learn how crime scene professionals protect themselves and the evidence at a crime scene and the different roles law enforcement professionals execute at the scene of a crime. The course also describes the many types of evidence and how evidence is collected and secured before it is processed by a crime lab.

With this course, you’ll review the history of criminal law, from its start in the common law (and the principles of applying case law) to its contemporary forms of statutory and regulatory law. You’ll look at crimes and their underlying elements, consider what a prosecutor needs to show in order to secure a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, examine the traditional form of criminal law as well as strict liability and victimless crimes, discuss a range of criminal offenses, such as inchoate and property-based crimes, crimes of violence and administrative crimes, and consider the excuses, justifications, and defenses to the prosecution of such activities.

Discusses the most pressing topic for law enforcement: terrorism; reviews some of the theories advanced to account for acts of terror; considers history and how some groups have used acts of terror to accomplish their goals; looks at foreign and domestic acts of terror and the political agendas of those engaged in such acts; and looks to pressing issues, such as the forms that acts of terror can take.

Following an introduction to criminology, the student will explore criminological theories, general types of crime, special types of crime, as well as the future of crime. The course covers property and white collar crime, in addition to organized crime and computer crime. Methods for predicting what the future holds for crime are also discussed.

Begins the study of ethics from the larger issues of what constitutes morality and moral behavior; looks at how ethics develop; discusses the issues of ethics and specific aspects of criminal justice, including justice, law enforcement, courts, punishment and corrections, and management; reviews the consideration of professionalism and of ethics for everyone in society.

This course examines the fundamental rules of evidence from inception, preservation, and admission at trial. All types of evidence will be studied including the historical development of the hearsay and exclusionary rules, together with their permitted exceptions.

This course examines the purpose and functions of the criminal justice system with attention paid to the police, courts, and corrections on the local, state, and federal levels. It explains the limitations of a system initially designed to respond to the needs of Colonial America. The course also focuses on individuals’ involvement in the criminal justice system, as citizens and as actors, and how that involvement affects the system.

Examines the history and development of private security; reviews the state of private security today, including, but not limited to, liability and the relationship between public and private security; focuses on issues regarding prevention and loss control; looks at investigation and prosecution; discusses trends in security, including the contemporary development of security systems and approaches toward security in light of recent events.

Course opens with a consideration of how organized crime has developed and the structure of organized crime; looks at the different types of criminal activity typical to organized crime; reviews international organized crime as the principles underlying organized crime would naturally lead to expansion. Course closes with a consideration of the tools and means available to law enforcement to battle organized crime. Each chapter includes links to Internet sites where students can go to find more information on the subject matter covered in the chapter.

Considers the development of the police subculture and how that has shaped different strategies for police management; proceeds to examine those basic organizational concepts unique to policing; looks at the different responsibilities and how to satisfy those responsibilities within the context of policing; studies the image that collective bargaining has on management of police.

Looks at the role of policing in America; discusses the existence of a police subculture, the role of management and the nature of patrolling; considers different strategies for investigating and solving problems; includes a discussion about ethics, civil liability, and possible directions for policing in the future.

This course uses traditional educational methods and computer simulation to provide an understanding of the scientific theory as well as the actual practices and techniques used to process a crime scene. The student will learn how crime scene professionals protect themselves and the evidence at a crime scene and the different roles law enforcement professionals execute at the scene of a crime. The course also describes the many types of evidence and how evidence is collected and secured before it is processed by a crime lab.

Looks to how criminal justice has responded to the heightened interest of society paying more attention to the victims of crime in the last few decades; presents the laws designed to support victims, including but not limited to programs and services; examines the growing Victim Rights Movement; explores a range of kinds of victimization, its origins, and will consider what segments of society have been most vulnerable to certain crimes.