Graduate Courses for Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJS)

Schedule of Classes: Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer
(Only current and next semester available)

CCJS 400 Criminal Courts (3 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS100 or permission of department; and CCJS300.
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 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS100, CCJS105, CCJS230, and CCJS300.
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 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS100 and CCJS340.
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 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS105 or CCJS350 or permission of department; and CCJS300.
Methods and programs in prevention of crime and delinquency.

CCJS 452 Treatment of Criminals and Delinquents (3 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS105 or CCJS350 or permission of department; and CCJS300.
Processes and methods used to modify criminal and delinquent behavior.

CCJS 453 White Collar and Organized Crime (3 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS105 or CCJS350; and CCJS300.
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 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS105; and CCJS300; and CCJS350.
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 credits)
Prerequisite: CCJS300 and permission of department.
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 credits)
Prerequisite: CCJS455 or permission of department.
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 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS105 or CCJS350; and CCJS300.
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 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS105 or equivalent; and CCJS300; and PSYC330 or PSYC353.
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 credits)
Prerequisites: CCJS300 and CCJS357.
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 credits)
Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
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 credits)
Prerequisites: admission to the graduate program in criminal justice or permission of department. Formerly CJUS600.
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 credits)
An 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, and restorative justice.

CCJS 602 Courts and Sentencing (3 credits)
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.

CCJS 603 Corrections (3 credits)
An 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.

CCJS 604 Policy Analysis Project (3 credits)
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. The topic of the independent study will be chosen through individual consultation with the instructor.

CCJS 605 Program Evaluation for Criminal Justice (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS 605 or CCJS 609. Formerly CCJS609.
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.

CCJS 610 Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology (3 credits)
Prerequisite: completion of research methods and statistics requirements for the M.A. Degree. Formerly CRIM610.
Examination of special research problems and techniques.

CCJS 611 Statistical Tools for Criminal Justice (3 credits)
An introduction to essential statistical concepts for analyzing crime and evaluating criminal justice policies. Interpreting 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.

CCJS 612 Applied Data Analysis in Criminal Justice (3 credits)
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.

CCJS 620 Fundamentals of Criminological Research (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS498D or CCJS620. Formerly CCJS498D.
Designed to help criminology students understand and apply three important components of statistics: decriptive statistics (including probability theory), fundamentals of statistical inference, and regression analysis. Course assumes familiarity with basic descriptive statistics. The emphasis of the classes on descriptive statistics is the calculation and interpretation of summary statistical measures for describing raw data. Covers the basic rules of probability and different probabilistic processes that could describe criminal activity. The sessions on fundamentals of statistical inferences are designed to provide background for executing and interpreting hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. The latter portion of the course focuses on regession analysis. Uses the statistical software, Stata.

CCJS 621 General Linear Models in Criminal Justice Research (3 credits)
Prerequisite: CCJS620. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS498F or CCJS621. Formerly CCJS498F.
An in-depth exploration of applied linear regression analysis. Covers characteristics of estimates, such as unbiasedness and efficiency. Encourages fluency with the theoretical issues involved in the basic linear regression using simple algebra, familiarity with the general model using matrix algebra, and fluency with the computer application of multivariate regressions and the probit/logit models.

CCJS 630 Seminar in Criminal Law and Society (3 credits)
Prerequisite: CCJS 230 or equivalent; and a course in introductory criminology. Formerly CJUS630.
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisites: one course in the theory of groups or organizations; and one course in administration; or permission of department. Formerly CJUS640.
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 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Formerly CJUS650.
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 credits)
Formerly CRIM651.
Analysis of significant recent issues in Criminology.

CCJS 652 Seminar in Juvenile Delinquency (3 credits)
Formerly CRIM652.
Analysis of delinquency and its control.

CCJS 653 Seminar in Corrections (3 credits)
Prerequisite: CCJS 651 or equivalent. Formerly CRIM653.
Development, operation and future of correctional systems.

CCJS 654 History of Criminological Thought (3 credits)
Prerequisite: CCJS 454 or equivalent. Formerly CRIM654.
A study of the development of criminological thought from antiquity to the present.

CCJS 657 Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice Systems (3 credits)
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 credits)
Assumptions, biases, and relative strengths and weaknesses of theories of crime as applied to women. Criminal justice sanctioning of crimes by and against women. The course will also explore occupational segregationby gender in criminal justice professions, particularly in the fields ofpolicing, courts (attorneys and judges), and corrections (correctionalofficers and treatment staff).

CCJS 661 Crime and the Life Course (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS699J or CCJS661. Formerly CCJS699J.
Designed to provide an intensive examination of crime and the life course. Life course is examined as a theoretical orientation, a research methodology, and an empirical field of study with special reference to crime and deviance. Course includes development of criminal behavior and criminal careers; stability and change in criminal behavior across developmental stages; trajectories, transitions, and turning points through life; quantitative and qualitative approaches to studying crime and the life course; and social change and its link to individual lives.

CCJS 662 Psychology of Crime and Justice (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS699P or CCJS662. Formerly CCJS699P.
A seminar designed to increase knowledge of the criminal behavior of adults and juveniles and what can be done to change this behavior. Students will be expected to develop a thorough understanding of the history, development, operation, effectiveness, and future of formal efforts to understand and control criminal behavior.

CCJS 663 Issues in Corporate Crime (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS699S or CCJS663. Formerly CCJS699S.
Overview of what is known about corporate crime and criminals (e.g.: similarities to and differences from other offenders and crime types; characteristics of offenders and victims; what counts as corporate crime ; introduction to theoretical frameworks.) Readings and class materials will coalesce around specific issues about which there is much debate but scant empirical research. Discussions will center around what is known, what is not, what needs to be done and how.

CCJS 664 Regulating Vice and Regulating Organized Crime (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS699V or CCJS664. Formerly CCJS699V.
For this course, vice is defined as a habit with bad consequences that can generate large black markets if the market for supplying that habit is prohibited or heavily regulated. Vice if found in all modern societies, though in widely differing forms, depending on population characteristics, culture and law. Society's decision is how to regulate it, whether criminally or otherwise, and how then to assess whether the regulation is successful. This assessment has multiple components, including: choosing outcome measures; modeling counterfactuals for which the evidence is often very indirect and developing a framework for ensuring that comparisons reflect all relevant outcomes and values.

CCJS 665 Professional Development (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS699D or CCJS665. Formerly CCJS699D.
A seminar designed for students who are planning to complete their Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Focus on issues important to consider during one's career. Discussions and activities will include topics such as: planning one's graduate career, resumes, planning a professional career, employment opportunities, interviewing for jobs, teaching, publishing and reviewing manuscripts, grants and proposals, research, achieving tenure.

CCJS 667 Innovations in Policing: Programs, Policies and Research (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS667 or CCJS699W. Formerly CCJS699W.
Examine the factors that have led to recent police innovations and recent innovations in the study of policing. Critically explores the effects of such policies on crime and disorder, on research practices, as well as unintended consequences on community, police abuse and police organization. Which policies have been found to be effective? What types of practices work most effectively for what type of crime and disorder problems? Has there been sufficient research for us to come to solid conclusions regarding these questions? Does present research fit the practices of the police?

CCJS 670 Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice (3 credits)
Provides an historical overview of the operation and evolution of the criminal justice system and the impact of race. How race affects definitions of crime and criminality, the workings of the criminal justice system, the development of criminological theory, and the role of criminal justice ethics in the study of race and crime will be considered.

CCJS 678 Advanced Topics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (3 credits)
Prerequisite: CCJS600. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs.
An analysis of contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice with special emphasis on research and theory developments.

CCJS 680 Drugs and Crime (3 credits)
The relationship between drug use and crime. Policy concerning drug control enforcement, prosecution and sentencing. impact of drug treatment in criminal justice Impact of drug treatment in criminal justice settings, drug courts, drug-testing strategies and surveillance of former drug abusers in the community.

CCJS 699 Special Criminological Problems (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits. Formerly CJUS699.
Supervised study of a selected problem in the field of criminal justice.

CCJS 710 Advanced Research Methods in Criminology (3 credits)
Prerequisite: approved doctoral level statistics course. Formerly CRIM710.
Application of advanced research methods and data analysis strategies to criminological and criminal justice problems.

CCJS 711 Randomized Experiments in Criminology and Criminal Justice (3 credits)
Constrast randomized designs with other approaches, examining both statistical, methodological, ethical and practical concerns. What are the statistical advantages of randomized experimental designs? Why do some researchers believe that randomized studies violate ethical standards in criminal justice? Why are experiments considered to have higher internal validity than non-randomized designs and how do different types of designs compare in terms of external validity? Focus on how experiments can be developed and how they are analyzed. What are the practical barriers to experimentation and how can they be overcome? What statistical methods are most appropriate for experimental analysis? How can block randomization or hierarchical modeling be used to develop more powerful or more practical research approaches?

CCJS 712 Longitudinal Data Analysis with Latent Variables (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CCJS699F or CCJS712. Formerly CCJS699F.
This course is designed for graduate students with an interest in the use of latent variables in longitudinal data analysis as it is conceptualized in the Mplus framework. This course explores more general features of latent variable analyses as they are related to longitudinal modeling. Topics to be covered include latent growth analysis with a combination of continuous and categorical latent variables as well as the inclusion of continuous and categorical variables as predictors and outcomes.

CCJS 720 Criminal Justice System Planning: Policy Analysis for Crime Control (3 credits)
Prerequisites: one course in criminal justice and one course in research methodology. Formerly CJUS720.
System theory and method; examination of planning methods and models based primarily on a systems approach to the operations of the criminal justice system.

CCJS 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6 credits)
Formerly CRIM799.

CCJS 898 Pre-Candidacy Research (1-8 credits)

CCJS 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8 credits)
Formerly CRIM899.
Doctoral dissertation research in criminal justice and criminology.