Criminal Justice Courses
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An analysis of selected areas of terrorism, counter-terrorism, and homeland security with an emphasis on parallels between terrorism and crime.
Analysis of selected areas of law enforcement. Emphasis is on currently developing trends.
The nature and extent of delinquency; competing explanatory models and theories. Evaluation of control and treatment modalities.
Examines the historical and contemporary policy trends in institutional and community corrections.
An evaluation of specific statistical methods for quantitative and nonquantitative analyses, concentrating on proper applications and interpretations in criminal justice settings.
Examination of classical, neoclassical, positive, and social-defense theories of criminality and their interrelation with the broader problems of crime control. Offered spring semester.
Prepares the student to develop and to implement basic research designs.
Offers an opportunity for faculty and students to explore in depth topics of contemporary interest that are not generally covered in the standard courses. Course content will vary from section to section.
Research under faculty supervision in any area of interest to the student. Content may not relate to thesis or policy and practice project.
This course provides Criminology and Criminal Justice graduate students with the opportunity to work directly with an agency or a community partner over the course of a semester. Graduate students pursuing the practicum will write a technical report that synthesizes their coursework with their practicum and includes data analysis.
This course provides students who are not completing a thesis or practicum with the opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge about a policy-related topic selected in consultation with a faculty supervisor. Students completing the policy and practice paper will engage in a comprehensive literature review guided by research questions pertaining to a potential problem or issue associated with the policy or practice under study.
Research may be directed by any member of the faculty who accepts responsibility for supervising the thesis.
An overview of various important issues in criminological theory and research and the administration of criminal justice.
Review of quantitative methodological literature and approaches in criminology and criminal justice. Topics may include the general linear model and logistic regression analysis, along with analysis of count data, data from randomized field experiments, interrupted time-series studies, longitudinal studies, regression discontinuity studies, instrumental variable estimation, treatment probability matching estimators, statistical power analysis, and study planning.
Advanced coverage of theoretical developments and empirical research in criminology, with a focus on definitive statements from important theoretical traditions, empirical tests of criminological theories, and the application of theory.
Examination of the qualitative research paradigm and its contribution to social inquiry, including the collection, organization, and analysis of qualitative data. Collection and analytic strategies reviewed may involve interviewing, observation, and textual analysis.
Criminal Justice Policy: Examination of the interrelationships between law, crime, and public policy and the research methodologies appropriate for the study of crime-related policies.
Offers an opportunity for faculty and students to explore in depth statistical approaches that are not generally covered in the standard courses. Course content will vary from section to section.
Offers an opportunity for faculty and students to explore in depth methodological approaches that are not generally covered in the standard courses. Course content will vary from section to section.
This independent research course partially fulfills required doctoral-level research dissertation hours toward the doctoral degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice.