This course permits selected qualified students to participate in a research project under the direction of a faculty mentor

An analysis of the criminal justice systems– police, courts and corrections– in selected eastern and western nations.

Discusses the philosophical theories underlying ethics and how they relate to the police, courts, corrections, law, criminal justice research, and the principles of justice.

For Criminal Justice majors only. Application deadlines: see graduate student handbook. To provide graduate students with practical exposure to the criminal justice system. Designed to provide the student with the opportunity to integrate theory and practice, utilize knowledge, and confront contradictions between the conceptual and the real world.

A graduate introduction to the discipline of criminal justice through a survey of the significant literature and a review of contemporary studies of all major facets of the justice system.

The purpose of this course is to prepare students to be both knowledgeable producers and consumers of policy-oriented research. It reviews the current state of knowledge across a range of substantive crime policy areas like punishment policy, drug policy, drug courts, gun control, policing, cross-border crime, terrorism, forced migration, and human trafficking.

This course is designed to help students understand and apply the nature of computer crime in the criminal justice field. Students will be presented with common types of fraudulent schemes, as well as several laws that have been enacted and developed specifically for computer crime. In addition, causes, victimization, legal issues, control strategies, and societal costs regarding the “computer-crime” problem will be explored and evaluated.

The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of commonly used regression techniques. Students will learn simple regression, multiple regression, and important diagnostic tests. Finally, they will learn how to remedy problems if the data fail to meet basic estimation assumptions.

Permits selected qualified criminal justice students to engage in independent research under the guidance of a faculty member.

Directed research in collaboration with a faculty member. Does not count towards degree requirements.

Prerequsites: PMAP 8111, CRJU 7010
This seminar is the integration experience and assessment tool used to measure learning outcomes expected of students in the MIS Criminal Justice Administration program. Students complete an empirically-based project that explores a problem facing their home institution. The final product will be a capstone paper, to be graded by the MIS CJA program director and approved by the student’s work supervisor.

This course examines the form, function, and operation of the U.S. criminal justice system. Readings, discussions and assignments focus on how current criminal justice policies, practices, and controversies can be explained and understood from various theoretical and practical perspectives. Key issues of focus include understanding how and why the criminal justice system operates the way it does today, examining what is currently known about “what works” in policing, sentencing, and corrections, and discussing challenges to the system going forward.

Criminological issues and their effect on criminal justice, including theories of punishment, concepts of law, violence, and crime causation.

An examination of fundamental issues confronting the management of law enforcement organizations through a critical analysis of research related to police practices and operations.

This course concerns itself with procedural and substantive aspects of the juvenile justice system, including such areas as history and philosophy, intake, legal and social investigations, judicial and administrative decision making, legal rights, roles of attorneys, and definitive case law addressing system analysis.

A survey of the major issues confronting the field of corrections, and the administration and management of correctional systems, including institutional corrections and alternatives to incarceration.

An examination of the fundamental theories and issues in the field of criminology which additionally may include the exploration of white collar crime and organized crime.

An overview of research methodology as it applies to the field of criminal justice.

A review of descriptive and inferential statistics as they apply to the field of criminal justice.

Emphasizes the constitutionalization of the criminal justice process with special attention to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Gives in-depth treatment to selected topics involving judicial institutions and the criminal process.

Provides in-depth treatment of research design, qualitative/quantitative methods, or data and workflow in criminal justice and criminology.

Research and seminar discussions of specified contemporary, behavioral or administrative problems which impact on criminal justice. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Permits selected qualified students to pursue a course of readings on a selected topic under the guidance of a faculty member.

This seminar is the integration experience and assessment tool for non-thesis students. Students will complete written and oral critical analyses of scholarly literature, applying their core knowledge to real-world problems and questions within the fields of criminal justice and criminology.

Individual study of a selected research problem in criminal justice or criminology that requires the analysis of data. Student, with approval of the graduate program director and department chair, chooses a chair and at least two additional members to form a thesis committee. The committee must approve student’s proposed and subsequent thesis.

Examines the development and implementation of criminal justice policies.

Provides incoming Ph.D. students with an orientation to the scholarly infrastructure, standards of the program, and equips them with a set of fundamental tools needed to succeed in subsequent coursework and research endeavors.

Exposes advanced graduate students to the major theories, issues, and debates that guide contemporary efforts to explain crime and criminality.

Exposes advanced graduate students to the pedagogical literature and develops their abilities to teach undergraduate criminal justice and criminology courses.

Examines the advanced quantitative methods and analytical strategies used in the study of crime and criminal justice.

Examines the use of multiple linear regression and other advanced techniques used in the study of crime and criminal justice.

Research (non-dissertation) on a selected topic under the guideance of a faculty member.

Directed research (non-dissertation) with a criminal justice agency in collaboration with a faculty member.

Student pursues a course of readings of the theoretical and empirical literature
in their specialty area to prepare a foundation for the area examination paper.

This course is for students engaged in dissertation research.

Exposes advanced graduate students to several qualitative research methods used in the fields of criminal justice and criminology.