Mon, Jan 20
|265 Oxford St
Criminal Justice
This course covers topics such as criminal behavior, law enforcement, criminal justice system, corrections and the court system.
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Time & Location
Jan 20, 2020, 6:00 PM
265 Oxford St, 265 Oxford St, Providence, RI 02905, USA
About the Event
Criminal Behavior – 15%
- Defining crime (i.e., what is crime, accepted definitions of crime)
- Types of crime
- Juvenile delinquency (i.e., emergence, trends, causation)
- Measurement of crime and delinquency (i.e., UCR, NVCS, evaluation, survey data, research data, methods of data collection)
- Crime in the United states (i.e., rate, trends)
- Theories of crime
Criminal Justice System – 25%
- Historical origins and legal foundations (i.e., statutory, common law, case law, procedural and substantive law etc.)
- Crime control model versus due process model
- Criminal justice agencies (i.e., law enforcement, courts and corrections)
Law Enforcement – 20%
- History of policing
- Types of law enforcement agencies
- Law enforcement roles and responsibilities
- Issues and trends in policing
- The nature of law enforcement (i.e., PTSD, use of discretion, subculture and demographics (e.g., race, gender, age, etc.)
Court System – 20%
- History of the court system
- Organization, structure and levels of the court system
- Adult and Juvenile court systems
- Pretrial, trial and post-trial processes (e.g., bail, plea bargaining, prosecutorial discretion, judicial discretion, diversion, waiver, jury, and verdict)
- Sentencing options and trends
Corrections – 20%
- History of corrections
- Philosophies of punishment (e.g., rehabilitation, restoration, deterrence, incapacitation, retribution)
- Intermediate sanctions (i.e., probation, parole)
- Adult prison facilities (i.e., administration and overcrowding)
- Juvenile correctional facilities (i.e., types, functions, and controversies)
- Capital punishment (i.e., controversies)
- Inmate characteristics (i.e., subculture, gangs and demographics)
- Issues and trends (i.e., inmate rights, security, healthcare, privatization and wrongful conviction)