CCJS -- Criminology and Criminal Justice

CCJS 400 Criminal Courts (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 100 or permission of department; and CCJS 300. Formerly CJUS 400. Criminal courts in the United States at all levels; judges, prosecutors, defenders, clerks, court administrators, and the nature of their jobs; problems facing courts and prosecutors today and problems of administration; reforms.

CCJS 432 Law of Corrections (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 230 or CCJS 234; and CCJS 105; and CCJS 300. Formerly CRIM 432. A review of the law of criminal corrections from sentencing to final release or release on parole. Probation, punishments, special treatments for special offenders, parole and pardon, and the prisoner's civil rights are also examined.

CCJS 444 Advanced Law Enforcement Administration (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 340 or permission of department; and CCJS 300. Formerly CJUS 444. The structuring of manpower, material, and systems to accomplish the major goals of social control. Personnel and systems management. Political controls and limitations on authority and jurisdiction.

CCJS 451 Crime and Delinquency Prevention (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 105 or CCJS 350 or permission of department; and CCJS 300. Formerly CRIM 451. Methods and programs in prevention of crime and delinquency.

CCJS 452 Treatment of Criminals and Delinquents (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 105 or CCJS 350 or permission of department; and CCJS 300. Formerly CRIM 452. Processes and methods used to modify criminal and delinquent behavior.

CCJS 453 White Collar and Organized Crime (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 105 or CCJS 350; and CCJS 300. Formerly CRIM 456. Definition, detection, prosecution, sentencing and impact of white collar and organized crime. Special consideration given to the role of federal law and enforcement practices.

CCJS 454 Contemporary Criminological Theory (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 105; and CCJS 300; and CCJS 350. Formerly CRIM 454. Brief historical overview of criminological theory up to the 50's. Deviance. Labeling. Typologies. Most recent research in criminalistic subcultures and middle class delinquency. Recent proposals for "decriminalization".

CCJS 455 Dynamics of Planned Change in Criminal Justice I (3) Prerequisite: CCJS 300 and permission of department. Formerly CJUS 455. An examination of conceptual and practical issues related to planned change in criminal justice. Emphasis on the development of innovative ideas using a research and development approach to change.

CCJS 456 Dynamics of Planned Change in Criminal Justice II (3) Prerequisite: CCJS 455 or permission of department. Formerly CJUS 456. An examination of conceptual and practical issues related to planned change in criminal justice. Emphasis on change strategies and tactics which are appropriate for criminal justice personnel in entry level positions.

CCJS 457 Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 105 or CCJS 350; and CCJS 300. Formerly CRIM 457. Comparison of law and criminal justice systems in different countries. Special emphasis on the methods of comparative legal analysis, international cooperation in criminal justice, and crime and development.

CCJS 461 Psychology of Criminal Behavior (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 105 or equivalent; and CCJS 300; and PSYC 330 or PSYC 353. Formerly CRIM 455. Biological, environmental, and personality factors which influence criminal behaviors. Biophysiology and crime, stress and crime, maladjustment patterns, psychoses, personality disorders, aggression and violent crime, sex-motivated crime and sexual deviations, alcohol and drug abuse, and criminal behavior.

CCJS 462 Special Problems in Security Administration (3) Prerequisites: CCJS 300 and CCJS 357. Formerly CJUS 462. An advanced course for students desiring to focus on specific concerns in the study of private security organizations; business intelligence and espionage; vulnerability and criticality analyses in physical security; transportation, banking, hospital and military security problems; uniformed security forces; national defense information; and others.

CCJS 498 Selected Topics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (3) Prerequisite: CCJS 300 and permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Formerly CRIM 498. Topics of special interest to advanced undergraduates in criminology and criminal justice. Offered in response to student request and faculty interest.

CCJS 600 Criminal Justice (3) Prerequisites: admission to the graduate program in criminal justice or permission of department. Formerly CJUS 600. Current concept of criminal justice in relationship to other concepts in the field. Historical perspective. Criminal justice and social control. Operational implications. Systemic aspects. Issues of evaluation.

CCJS 601 Policing (3) Introduction to research, theory, and applications of the causes and consequences of police behavior. Community policing, problem-solving methods, police discretion, police misconduct, police crime prevention strategies, policing and restorative justice. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 602 Courts and Sentencing (3) Introduction to research and theory on prosecution, plea-bargaining, sentencing principles and guidelines, and sentencing policies in practice. Mandatory minimum sentencing, "three strikes" laws, race, gender and class disparities, general and specific deterrent effects of sentencing, restitution and restorative justice, diversion and sentencing to treatment. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 603 Corrections (3) Introduction to the research and policy issues for community-based and institutional correctional programs, assessment and screening tools, management of convicted offenders and institutional overcrowding. Research on prediction of recidivism, matching of treatment programs to offenders, management of correctional institutions and programs. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 604 Policy Analysis Project (3) An application of statistical and conceptual tools to criminal justice data in the student's area of concentration, resulting in a paper reporting the conceptualization, analytic methods and results. Topic to be chosen through individual consultation with instructor. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 609 Program Evaluation for Criminal Justice (3) Designing, implementing and evaluating programs in criminal justice. Topics include diagnosing program needs, planning and tailoring evaluation programs, program monitoring, assessing program impact, program efficiency, and the social context of evaluation. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 610 Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology (3) Prerequisite: completion of research methods and statistics requirements for the M.A. Degree. Formerly CRIM 610. Examination of special research problems and techniques.

CCJS 611 Statistical Tools for Criminal Justice (3) Introduction to essential statistical concepts for analyzing crime and evaluating criminal justice policies. Interpretation of crime trends and correlations, risk and conditional probability analysis for repeat offenders and hot spots of crime, time series analysis, experimental statistics, effect sizes, statistical power and significance. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 612 Applied Data Analysis in Criminal Justice (3) Requires students to analyze such data as patterns and distributions of criminal careers, temporal and spatial data on reported crimes, recidivism rates after correctional programs, and statistical profiles of offender M.O. patterns. Data base management, computerized crime mapping, graphical and tabular methods for displaying data. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 630 Seminar in Criminal Law and Society (3) Prerequisite: CCJS 230 or equivalent; and a course in introductory criminology. Formerly CJUS 630. The criminal law is studied in the context of general studies in the area of the sociology of law. The evolution and social and psychological factors affecting the formulation and administration of criminal laws are discussed. Also examined is the impact of criminal laws and their sanctions on behavior in the light of recent empirical evidence.

CCJS 635 Minorities and Criminal Justice (3) Prerequisite: CCJS 600 or equivalent. Role minorities play in the criminal justice system: as victims, offenders and professionals. Also provides theoretical framework for examining these roles.

CCJS 640 Seminar in Criminal Justice Administration (3) Prerequisites: one course in the theory of groups or organizations; and one course in administration; or permission of department. Formerly CJUS 640. Examination of external and internal factors that currently impact on police administration. Intra-organizational relationships and policy formulation; the conversion of inputs into decisions and policies. Strategies for formulating, implementing and assessing administrative decisions.

CCJS 650 Advanced Criminology (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Formerly CJUS 650. Analysis of the political and organizational process of policy development and implementation in criminal justice. Collection, analysis and interpretation of research data on current and ongoing efforts to form and implement policy.

CCJS 651 Seminar in Criminology (3) Formerly CRIM 651. Analysis of significant recent issues in Criminology.

CCJS 652 Seminar in Juvenile Delinquency (3) Formerly CRIM 652. Analysis of delinquency and its control.

CCJS 653 Seminar in Corrections (3) Prerequisite: CCJS 651 or equivalent. Formerly CRIM 653. Development, operation and future of correctional systems.

CCJS 654 History of Criminological Thought (3) Prerequisite: CCJS 454 or equivalent. Formerly CRIM 654. A study of the development of criminological thought from antiquity to the present.

CCJS 657 Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice Systems (3) Prerequisite: CCJS 457 or equivalent. A cross national examination of the meaning of criminality, formal and informal responses to crime, and the internalization of crime and criminal justice.

CCJS 660 Gender and Crime (3) Patterns and variations in gendered crime, theories of crime, and victimization. Assumptions, biases, and relative strengths and weaknesses of theories of crime as applied to women. Criminal justice sanctioning of crimes by and against women. Gender and criminal justice professions. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 670 Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice (3) Role of race in American criminal justice system, definition of crime, and criminological theory. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 680 Drugs and Crimes (3) The relationship between drug use and crime. Drugs and alcohol as facilitators of crime. Drug control policy, drug enforcement, prosecution and sentencing, impact of drug treatment in criminal justice settings, drug courts, drug testing strategies and surveillance of ex-drug abusing offenders in the community. (Under review for permanent course status at the time of publication).

CCJS 699 Special Criminological Problems (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits. Formerly CJUS 699. Supervised study of a selected problem in the field of criminal justice.

CCJS 710 Advanced Research Methods in Criminology (3) Prerequisite: approved doctoral level statistics course. Formerly CRIM 710. Application of advanced research methods and data analysis strategies to criminological and criminal justice problems.

CCJS 720 Criminal Justice System Planning (3) Prerequisites: one course in criminal justice and one course in research methodology. Formerly CJUS 720. Conceptual and empirical analysis for identifying problems, options for solving them, plans for implementing solutions, and methods for evaluating their effectiveness. Case studies and data analysis exercises. Evaluation designs and problems of generalizing conclusions.

CCJS 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6) Formerly CRIM 799.

CCJS 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8) Formerly CRIM 899. Doctoral dissertation research in criminal justice and criminology.