CRJ 555 Technology and the Criminal Justice System
This course is an analysis of high-tech society, the impact of advanced technology on the crime scene and its application in criminal justice management.
Annually, 3 credits

CRJ 675 Critical Issues in Law and Society
This course is an analysis of the ways laws evolve along with social change, the applicability of laws in relation to the criminal justice system and the structure of society and the viability of laws in relation to changing moral standards.
Not required for Fraud Examination concentration
Annually, 3 credits

CRJ 690 Theories of Crime Causation
This course is a survey of the theoretical implications of criminal acts in relation to behavioral systems. It is an analysis of sociogenic, psychogenic, economic, anthropological and physical-type theories.
Annually, 3 credits

CRJ 699 Foundations of Scholarship
This course must be taken in the student’s first semester of attendance in order to develop tools for conducting research and for writing papers in the field of criminal justice. The course explores approaches to writing a research paper, forms of documentation, library resources, data sources, and computer usage.
Every Semester, 3 credits

CRJ 700 Research Design and Methods
This course must be taken in the student’s first or second semester of attendance. It is a survey of research designs, analytical techniques and the preparation of research papers.
Annually, 3 credits

Capstone

CRJ 707 and CRJ 708 must be taken consecutively in the student’s last two semesters of study after having maintained a 3.00 or better G.P.A.

CRJ 707 Thesis Research
This course is taken prior to CRJ 708. It is an advanced study of the scientific method in the discipline of Criminal Justice, together with the preparation of a master’s thesis proposal and an outline of the thesis.
Prerequisites: CRJ 699 and CRJ 700
Every Semester, 3 credits

CRJ 708 Thesis Consultation
This course is the actual writing of the thesis.
Prerequisite: CRJ 699, CRJ 700 and DRJ 707
Every Semester, 3 credits

Criminal Justice Specialization Courses

Fraud Examination

CRJ 801 Introduction to Fraud Examination
This course is an analysis of the fraud problem and its impact, both economic and social, on America. Pertinent "white collar crime" laws and the various enforcement and prosecutorial agencies that deal with fraud are also discussed.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 802 Methods of Fraud Examination
Various investigative and auditing techniques essential to the prevention, detection and resolution of fraud problems are examined in this course.
Prerequisite or Co-requisite: CRJ 801
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 803 Auditing Principles in Fraud Examination
This course studies the detecting of fraud through the use of auditing techniques, radio analysis, statistical methods application, and other pertinent accounting methods. The course includes the analysis of the application of internal controls to detect and prevent fraud.
Prerequisite: CRJ 804
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 804 Professional Accounting Standards in Fraud Examination
This course is the analysis of past and present professional accounting and auditing standards and their application to fraud problems. The changes occurring in the accounting profession and their implication on the growing threat of white collar crime are discussed.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 805 Fraud Examination and the Law
This course discusses the application of Federal and State Criminal and Civil Statutes and a detailed application of these laws to current and historical fraud cases. The rules of criminal and civil procedure are studied. The course includes a review of cases from the common law to decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that frame the overall fraud discussion.
Prerequisite: CRJ 801
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 806 Ethics in Fraud Examination
This course analyzes the professional responsibilities and limitations of auditors, investigators, lawyers, and fraud examiners. Ethical considerations of a consultancy and conduct as an expert witness are discussed. The confidential relationship between a fraud examiner and a client are studied.
Prerequisite or Co-requisite: CRJ 801
On Occasion, 3 credits

Security Administration

CSA 546 Theories of Private Security and Loss Prevention
This course is an analysis of the operative principles in deterring business and industrial crime. The concept of defensible space, internal and external access control and psychological security barriers are all discussed.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CSA 571 Private Security Administration
This course is the study of the organization, administration and management of security, plant protection, and loss prevention. Policy and decision-making, personnel, budgeting, safety and fire prevention programs in business, industry and government are covered.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CSA 581 Security of Intellectual Property
This course is a discussion of the clarification and classification of intellectual property. Particular attention is paid to the use of management skills in stating and implementing company security policy safeguards.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CSA 582 Instructing Security Trainers
This course covers instructional techniques for security trainers in the preparation and presentation of loss prevention and loss control knowledge and skills; and is a course in training the trainers.
Prerequisite: CSA 581
On Occasion, 3 credits

CSA 583 Security Law
This course is a survey of the major legal issues in criminal and civil law impacting on the private security industry. The course includes a discussion of self-incrimination, search and seizure, electronic eavesdropping, coerced confessions, right to counsel, illegal detention, use of deception devices, interrogation techniques and professional ethical responsibilities.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CSA 587 Institutional Security Planning
This course is the comparative analysis of relevant security problems in public and private institutional settings.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CSA 593 Investigation Management
This course is an examination of investigation techniques involved in hiring practices, loss control, crime and regulatory agency violations.
On Occasion, 3 credits

General Electives

CRJ 523 Computers and the Criminal Justice System
This course is an explanation of the application of basic computer technology in the criminal justice system. This course includes a discussion of more effective and efficient use of computer systems in various aspects of agency work.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 525 Teaching Criminal Justice
This is a course designed primarily for secondary school teachers that surveys the component parts of the criminal justice system. Particular attention is given to law enforcement agencies, courts, corrections, probation, parole and rights of the accused.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 529 Effectiveness of Prevention and Treatment Programs
This course is a review of the basic concepts and strategies in valuative research. Topics include topologies of treatment and prevention programs, what works, measuring effectiveness, types of valuative research designs and exemplary projects.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 530 Victimology
The criminal justice system is discussed with emphasis on treatment of the victims as well as how criminal justice agencies hinder or encourage the victim in reporting a victimization and processing the crime.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 536 Introduction to Forensic Technology
This course covers the technological aspects used by law enforcement in apprehension and prosecution of offenders. The course covers methods used including fingerprint discovery at crime scenes, ballistic identification, document examinations, serology, hair and fiber analysis.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 540 Employment Discrimination Law
This course is an overview of various laws that directly impact employers, managers and supervisors in both the public and private sector. The course covers diverse viewpoints regarding outstanding employment cases pertaining to personnel and discrimination issues.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 552 Communications and the Criminal Justice System
This course is a discussion of the role of mass media in facilitating and hindering the functioning of the criminal justice system - exposing deviant behavior, communicating information for arrest and crime prevention, prejudicing court procedures, misrepresentation, libel and defamation.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 560 Funding and Grant Evaluation
This course is a survey of the sources for criminal justice funding. The criteria and standards for meaningful evaluation of grants and reporting responsibilities of both agencies and independent evaluators is examined.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 565 Interpersonal Relations in Administration
This course is an analysis of group behavior in organizations, the dynamics of group membership and leadership as they relate to administration of business enterprise and contributions made by the behavioral sciences.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 570 Seminar in Criminal Justice Institutions
The seminar focuses on the major components of the criminal justice system. Special attention is given to the functions and role of the police, correctional institutions, courts, probation and parole. Integration of agencies, bureaucratic structures and value systems are also studied.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 577 Police and Professionalism
This course is an analysis of the concept of professionalism and its relation to social control with special reference to the police. Subject matter explores how professionalism may be functional or dysfunctional, the further accountability and ethical consideration in policy making, the control of police abuses and the self-regulation system.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 582 Psychiatry and the Law
This course is an examination of the legal implications in psychiatric diagnosis, commitment and treatment; the utilization of psychiatric testimony by judge and jury in the criminal justice system.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 585 Seminar in Court Administration
This course is an overview of the administration and management of the court system. The purpose and functioning of a criminal court jurisdiction and the management of intake and control of the participating parties are covered.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 600, 601 Advanced Standing Criminal Justice
This course is independent study in a selected area of criminal justice under the supervision and direction of a member of the criminal justice faculty.
Every Semester, 3 credits each

CRJ 630 Forensic Psychology
This course examines the part that psychology plays with all facets of the police, courts, and corrections. The course probes the interaction of all components and the role of psychological interaction with these components.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 631 Seminar in Organized Crime
This seminar traces the historical roots of organized criminality from circa 1850 to the present. Structural models are compared for understanding "emerging" groups. In that context, international aspects and transnational characteristics are examined. Special attention is paid to dependencies and cooperation among ethnic groups.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 635 The Mass Murderer and the Violent Criminal
This course studies the biological, psychological and environmental cases of the violent criminal. In-depth studies of individual offenders are made to analyze causation.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 640 Seminar in the Administration
This course is a comprehensive study of the juvenile justice system. The seminar deals with apprehension, adjudication, treatment and prevention as they relate specifically to the administration of juvenile justice.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 647 Forensic Investigation of Fire, Arson and Explosions
A safe and systematic investigation and analysis of fire and explosion incidents. Specific procedures will be presented to assist in these investigations.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 650 Class and Social Structure
This seminar examines American cultural pluralism and social structure and their impact on the criminal justice system.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 652 Seminar on the Grand Jury and the Petit Jury
This course is a study of the grand and petit juries and the present-day statutory and constitutional mandates affecting those institutions. Consideration is given to the alternatives to a grand jury system, the possible elimination of the grand jury as presently constituted, the waiver of grand jury presentment, as well as the functions performed and the safeguards, if any, achieved by our present system.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 655 Counseling in Criminal Justice
This course is a survey of individual and group counseling techniques for use in treatment-oriented criminal justice agencies. The different counseling techniques in probation, parole, corrections and drug and alcohol treatment agencies are all explored.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 656 Managerial Supervision
This course is a study of the theories, methods and practices in the administration of punishment. Among the topics covered are trends in punitive policy practices on the local, state and national levels.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 658 Crisis Intervention in Criminal Justice
This course is the examination of the application of crisis intervention techniques to the criminal justice system.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 660 Principles and Methods of Rehabilitation of Offenders
This course is an overview of the methods used in the rehabilitative process. The synthesis of theory with primary emphasis on social and cultural milieus
is considered.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 665 Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Violence
The course deals with the historic, social and legal forces that have shaped the criminal justice response to domestic
violence.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 670 Narcotic Addiction, Alcoholism and Crime
This course is a survey of the multi-factorial causes of chemical abuse; primarily, addiction to narcotics and alcohol, the characteristics of the addict and abuser and the legal sanctions developed for its control.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 680 Graduate Internship
This course is a planned program of observation and participation in selected criminal justice agencies. It explores the gap between the development of criminological theory and the practical application of that theory.
Every Semester, 3 credits

CRJ 686 Seminar in Justice
This course is a comprehensive examination of the organization and management of criminal justice agencies. Particular attention is paid to organization principles and practices, structure, supervision, administrative communications and the fiscal management of the criminal justice budget.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 689 Planning and Management
This course is a systematic analysis of parole and probation management at the administrative, supervisory and line levels.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 697 Workload Management
This course examines the workload management for probation and parole staff at the administrative, supervisory and line levels.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 698 Crime and Criminality in Cinematography
This course is an overview of the various components of the criminal justice system as seen through the case studies presented through the medium of cinema- tography. Films dealing with court procedures, juries, police practices, prosecutorial problems, sentencing procedures, prisons, causes of crime and corrections are explored.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 734 Forensic Homicide Investigation
Students gain knowledge of the crime regarded as the most heinous of all criminal acts. Investigative techniques used, the importance of the medical examiner’s autopsy, and the time factors involved in the solution are discussed.
On Occasion, 3 credits

CRJ 760 Terrorism
A survey of terrorism. The threat of international and domestic terrorism, counter-terrorism strategies and terrorist groups are some of the topics discussed.
On Occasion, 3 credits