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. Offered fall semester.
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.