| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Criminal Justice (X) |
Introduction to the principles and practices of the treatment accorded to offenders in various types of correctional institutions. The basic organization of a department, including custody, security, and control procedures, and elements of a treatment program.
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The process of law from arrest to release from confinement in its relation to correctional principles and practices. Functions of the police, defense, prosecution, courts, probation, correction, parole. Civil rights of the accused and the convicted. Legal documents relating to commitment, bail, fines, and writs.
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Problems, procedures, and policies in the administration of juvenile detention centers, youth houses, and state training schools; the probation service in juvenile courts; halfway houses and aftercare supervision; special institutions for defective delinquents and youthful narcotics addicts; the Borstal and "approved school" programs in England. Field trips to juvenile institutions.
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The aim of this course is to develop an understanding of the causes of sexual crimes and how sex offenders are dealt with throughout the criminal justice process. There is an analysis of the laws that relate to sex offenders and the cyclical nature of sex offender legislation. The course examines the difficulty of balancing rights of the offenders and rights of the community, and what forms of community protection are viable for these individuals. By the end of the course, students should have an understanding of sex offender typologies, types of treatment offered, laws and policies regarding sex crimes, and the likely future direction of legislation.
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Through examination of the literature, this course will explore correctional programs designed to rehabilitate offenders. The study of both institutional treatment models and community-based models will include: family intervention, counseling, self help programs, diversion, house arrest, community service, probation and halfway houses and others.
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Basic organization and objectives of a department of correction. Specific administrative principles required for the effective conduct and operation of a correctional organization. Relationships among the following institutional units: custodial force, treatment staff, clerical, culinary, and maintenance staff.
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This course provides an overview of correctional systems and methods adopted by selected foreign countries and describes similarities and differences in philosophy.
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Supervised field work in a variety of correctional settings, both juvenile and adult; assignments are made to institutions and to community-based programs; biweekly workshops with correction faculty.
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Examination of the role of race, class, and gender within the institutional correctional community. Analysis of the impact upon clients, staff and administration through examination of current correctional institutions and case studies by selected corrections experts.
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Developing criteria and standards; application of quantitative measures; operational evaluations; probability and types of error; prediction and decision making; experimental designs; post-program follow-up.
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A program of reading and reporting planned and carried out under the guidance of a faculty member. The topic, issue or area of student interest must concern a problem in criminal justice, constitutional or criminal law or procedure, corrections (including probation and parole) or law enforcement.
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A capstone course which explores in depth seminal works in corrections. Students will read primary materials written by "masters" of correctional thought and practice and will prepare critical reviews of the major works.
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An introductory survey of the American criminal justice system. Discussion of the police, defense and prosecuting attorneys, courts, institutional corrections, community-based corrections, and the juvenile justice system. The definition and the measurement of crime, and various efforts to explain the causes of crime. General issues for consideration include discretion in the administration of criminal justice; due process; and contemporary change in the American criminal justice system.
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This course focuses on the victims rather than the offenders: why they have been "rediscovered" recently; why they often do not report crimes to the police; how some victims might share responsibility for the crimes with the offenders; how they can be repaid for their losses through offender restitution and government compensation; and what new services are available to help victims prevent crimes and resist attacks.
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This course provides an introduction to the basic principles of computing with respect to police information systems; computer automation with respect to the penal setting; Interagency Criminal Justice Information Systems; National Criminal Justice Computer Systems; National Law Enforcement Telecommunications Systems (NLETS); the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS); Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS); National Crime Information Center (NCIC); and other criminal justice data bases. Legal and ethical implications for constituent elements and personnel of the criminal justice system are also discussed.
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An identification and analysis of the diverse ethical issues encountered in the police service. Traditional ethical theories will be examined and will be applied to such topics as discretion, deadly physical force, misconduct, authority and responsibility, affirmative action, civil disobedience, undercover operations, and privacy.
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A treatment of some of the central issues of judicial and correctional ethics. Traditional ethical theories will be applied to such topics as plea bargaining, bail and preventive detention, wiretapping, enforcement of sexual morality, sentencing, punishment, prisoners' rights, and parole.
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A program of reading and reporting planned and carried out under the guidance of a faculty member. The topic, issue or area of student interest must concern a problem in criminal justice, constitutional or criminal law or procedure, corrections (including probation and parole) or law enforcement.
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A seminar that explores in depth three aspects of the relationship between women and crime: 1) women as offenders, including the range, intensity, and growing nature of female criminality; 2) women as victims of crime, including abused women, rape victims, and the victimization aspects of prostitution; 3) women as social control agents.
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This is a senior seminar based on reading and discussion of writings which have had a major impact on the development of criminology, criminal legislation and the judiciary, police and corrections. Original works are discussed in the context of contemporaneous developments in natural and social sciences, political ideologies, and the history of ideas.
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This course is the first of four required courses in the core of the Justice Studies major. It is an introduction to the normative history of "justice" as a principle of human personal and social organization in the experience of peoples living in the "western" world. An emphasis on primary texts allows the student to encounter first principles and selected secondary readings introduce the student to questions posed by the attempt to define justice. Issues under study may include: determinism and free will and the implication of each for the meaning of the "unjust" act; retribution and the rhetorics that justify or condemn it; divinity, hierarchy, and the community as sources of justice; the social construction of such ideas as justice and "crime;" law as the structure of rules regulating coercion and the use of force.
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This course introduces the student to issues of justice in the humanities. Major texts in history, philosophy, and literature will be read. Issues to be examined in the course include free will, the nature of civil life, authority and responsibility, self and the other and the limits of autonomy, liberty and its limits, property and rights, punishment and retribution.
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An introduction to the methods by which the humanities define, research, and investigate problems, this course is the second course of four that make up the required core of the major in Humanities and Justice. It introduces the student to methods of inquiry in the three primary disciplines of the major: history, philosophy, and literature. The logic, design, and execution of the research process are considered, as well as the appropriate respective uses of primary and secondary sources. Electronic and non-electronic research aids will be examined, as will the research strategies most commonly employed by practicing historians, literary critics, and philosophers.
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A course in which the student develops the ability to design advanced research projects drawing on the methodologies and practices of the humanities. Designed as a "studio" course, the seminar's activities will be built around the research interests of the student as he/she develops topics and methodologies for the senior thesis in the Humanities and Justice major. The final product of the course will be a prospectus for the senior thesis that is acceptable to the seminar instructor and to the student's adviser.
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Designed for students in their final semester to conduct a significant investigation of a topic of their choosing in the area of humanities and justice studies. Designed as a "studio" course, the seminar's activities will be built around the prospectus developed by the student in HJS 410: Problems and Theory: Thesis Prospectus. The final product of the course will be a senior thesis that is acceptable to the seminar instructor and to the student's adviser.
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