Criminal Justice Graduate Courses

402 Trial Interaction. 3U/4G hours. Same as LING 402. Language use, culture, and law in the trial process. Analysis of qualitative methods applied to legal processes and change.

404 Roman Law and the Civil Law Tradition. 3U/4G hours. Same as History

404 and Classics 404. Roman law and its relationship to values and social structure; social analysis through law; continental law traditional.

405 The Problem of Justice. 3U/4G hours. Same as Political Science 405. Pre-modern and modern views of justice; and their practical utility in analyzing legislative, executive, and judicial programs for enhancing or restricting justice.

421 Juvenile Justice System. 3U/4G hours. Theories of juvenile delinquency and rule-breaking; juvenile rights; organization and administration of the juvenile justice system in the U.S.

422 Victimization. 3U/G4 hours. This survey of criminal victimization theory and research examines causes, consequences, and prevention of violent crime and victims' experience in the criminal justice system.

423 Violence. 3U/4G hours. Same as Anth 424. This seminar explores men and women's experience of violence historically and in modern times. Students explore how violence is wrought through words, pictures, physical harm, and silences.

424 Gender, Crime, and Justice. 3U/4G hours. Same as WST 424. An in-depth examination of the etiology of female crime and the involvement of females in the criminal justice system as offenders, victims, and workers/professionals.

435 Organized and White Collar Crime in the United States. 3U/4G hours. Analysis and evaluation of organized crime, including its public perception; sociological, political, and economic impacts as well as past and present enforcement strategies.

440 History of Criminal Justice Institutions. 3U/4G hours. Topics in law, jurisprudence, enforcement and punishment and their social settings, from classical times to mid-twentieth century, mainly in civil and common law traditions.

442 Comparative Criminal Justice Institutions. 3 U/4G hours. Comparative study of law. Jurisprudence, enforcement, and punishment in Western and non-Western societies, including civil law, common law, and Islamic systems.

456 Community Corrections. 3U/4G hours. History, processes, and functions of programs organized for sanctioning offenders in community settings, such as probation, parole, halfway houses, restitution, community service, home confinement.

480 Application of Science to the Law. 4U/4G hours. Same as Pharmacodynamics 480. Issues affecting the development, accessibility and admissibility of evidence from forensic science services by the criminal justice system; problems which may compromise the quality, fairness and effectiveness of scientific inquiries.

490 Topics in Rule Making. 3U/4G hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours of credit. Students may enroll in more than one section per term. Content varies, addressing major issues.

491 Topics in Rule Breaking. 3U/4G hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours of credit. Students may enroll in more than one section per term. Content varies, addressing major issues.

492 Topics in Rule Application. 3U/4G hours May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours of credit. Students may enroll in more than one section per term. Content varies, addressing major issues.

500 Law and Society. 4G hours. Emergence and growth of rule-governed social order; social organization of legal actors; functional aspects of law including social control; dispute resolution; rule interpretation; and the promotion of social and economic enterprises.

505 Community Processes: Formal and Informal Social Control. 4G hours. Analysis of community processes, agencies, and institutions that seek to regulate social behavior either informally or formally (eg. community organizationns, schools, churches, social service agencies). Exploration of their reactions to crime and neighborhood change, interactions with the criminal justice system, and efforts to prevent delinquency.

519 Topics in Legal Studies. 4G hours. Selected areas of legal administration where appelate courts have reviewed and created norms of offficial behavior such as wiretapping, competency defense counsel, and prisoners' rights. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours of credit. Students may register for more than one section per term. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.

520 Classical Theories of Rule Breaking. 4G hours. Critical examination of classical theories of crime and delinquency causation; emphasis on utilitarian, biological, psychiatric, economic, and social disorganization theories.

539 Seminar in Rule Breaking. 4G hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours of credit. Study of a specific area of rule?breaking such as larceny, criminal violence, corporate crime, political crime, public order criminality or occupational crime. Content varies. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.

540 Criminal Justice: Process and Institutions. 4G hours. Critical examination of the criminal justice system. The dynamics and processes of contemporary police, judicial, and correctional institutions are evaluated in the context of key historical developments and relevant research.

541 The Dynamics of Behavior in Criminal Justice Agencies. 4G hours. Leading theories of organizational behavior used to interpret organizational patterns, functions, and constraints in rule-applying institutions; emphasis on the application of these theories to the problems of planned change.

546 Violence and Victimization. 4G hours. The field of victimology and victimization theories are introduced, including characteristics of victims, crime and post-crime victimization effects, and victim criminal justice system experiences.

547 Race, Class and Gender of Crime and Justice. 4G hours. Same as WS 547. Theories addressing the intersections of race, class, gender crime and justice will be examined. Specifically, students examine criminological theories, social construction of race, class, and gender, legal decision-making, and implications of this for justice in our society.

548 Legal Discourse and Culture in Law and Society. 4G hours. The study of discourse, power, and culture in legal settings and analysis of power and resistance in the construction of law as a social fact. Prerequisite: CrJ 500.

550 Criminal Prosecution and Adjudication. 4G hours. Institutional, organizational, and role factors in criminal court behavior and decision making by prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, juries, defendants, witnesses, and probation officers. Comparison of legal standards with practice. Prerequisite: CrJ 500 or 540.

555 Corrections: Institutions and Field Operations. 4G hours. Examines institutions and field services in public and private sectors. Addresses historical and empirical approaches to the analysis of policy and correctional effectiveness; the neo-classical challenge to rehabilitation, and corrections case law. Prerequisite: CrJ 540.

560 Quantitative Methods and Design. 4G hours. Fundamentals of scientific inquiry, the logic of causal inference, and data analysis. Develop critical perspective and identify weaknesses in research design and measurement. Develop skills in data analysis, interpretation, and report writing. Prerequisite: CrJ 262 or consent of the instructor.

561 Qualitative Methods. 4G hours. Theories and techniques of qualitative research methods, particularly fieldwork and in depth interviews. Examine kinds of criminal justice problems amendable to these techniques and methods and examine the interrelationship between the researcher role and substantative findings. Fieldwork, extensive notes, and in depth interviews are expected. Prerequisite: CrJ 262 or consent of the instructor.

562 Statistical Applications in Criminal Justice 1. 4G hours. This course covers basic descriptive and inferential statistics, their application in data analysis, and assumptions underlying use of these procedures in criminal justice research. Prerequisiste: CrJ 262 or equivalent.

563 Evaluation Research in Criminal Justice. 4G hours. Experimental, quasi-experimental, and nonexperiemntal approaches to evaluation research; indicators of effectiveness. Applications to crime prevention, police, courts, and correctional programs. Politics of researcher-agency interactions. Prerequisites: One graduate level course in research methods and consent of the instructor.

564 Statistical Applications in Criminal Justice II. 4G hours. Introduction to multivariate statistics with emphasis on multiple regression in criminal justice research, analysis and interpretation of regression output, coding of variables and path analysis. Prerequisite: CrJ 562.

570 Advanced Methods in Criminal Justice. 4G hours. Methodological problems in criminal justice measurement including the identification problem in estimating deterrence and the limitations of survival analysis in estimating recidivism. Prerequisite: CrJ 560 or the equivalent.

579 Advanced Topics in Research Methods. 4G hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours of credit. Students may register for more than one section per term. Intensive study of a specific area of multivariate analysis, time series, factor analysis, log-linear analysis, field, historical, or legal research. Content varies. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.

592 Internship in Criminal Justice. 2- 4G hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 hours of credit. Students may register for more than one section per term. Placement in a criminal justice agency or setting under the supervision of a faculty member with an accepted research project and paper. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.

593 Teaching Criminal Justice. 4 G hours. Analysis of current trends in criminal justice education, discussion of the contextual setting of the field, and the development of rudimentary teaching skills.

594 Selected Isues in Crime and Criminal Justice. 4 G hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours of credit. Students may register for more than one section per term. Currents issues and advanced problem areas related to deviance, crime, etiology, labeling, criminal careers organized crime and victimology.

596 Independent Study or Research. 2-8 hours. May be repeated for credit. Students may register for more than one section per term. Research undertaken for this course may not duplicate that being done for CrJ 598. Supervised projects, which may consist of extensive readings in criminal justice, research on special problems not included in the regular course offering. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor and approval of the director of graduate studies.

598 Thesis Research. 0-8 hours. S/U grade only. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours of credit; a minimum of 6 hours is required. For students doing thesis research or writing. Prerequisites: Consent of the student's advisor and acceptance of the thesis topic and preliminary outline by the graduate committee.

599 Dissertation Research. 0-20 hours. S/U grade only. Graduate standing required. May be repeated. For students doing dissertation research or writing. Prerequisites: Consent of the student's advisor and acceptance of the dissertation topic and preliminary outline by the dissertation committee.