| CRJU 300 Introduction to Criminal Justice |
| Description: A study of the underlying ideological issues confronting America’s system of criminal justice, with an emphasis on key concepts in conflict (law and order, rehabilitation vs. retribution, etc.) |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 310A Criminal Law: Substantive |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. The general doctrines of criminal liability in the United States and the classification of crimes as against persons, property and the public welfare. The concept of governmental sanction of the conduct of the individual. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 310B Criminal Law: Procedural |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. Legal problems associated with the investigation of crime, the acquisition of evidence, the commencement of a criminal proceeding, the prosecution and defense of charges, sentencing and appeal. The development of existing procedures and examination of current efforts for reform. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 315 The Enforcement Function |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. The historical and philosophical development of the enforcement function at federal, state and local levels; community controls, political pressures and legal limitations pertaining to law enforcement agencies at each level of government; police policies and problems vis-à-vis the administration of justice as a system. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 320 Introduction to Public Management and Policy |
| Description: (Same as Political Science 320) |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 322 Leadership for Public Service |
| Description: (Same as Political Science 322) |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 330 Crime and Delinquency |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. This course provides an overview and analysis of the evolving and conflicting purposes and practices associated with the topics of criminology, crime and delinquency with an emphasis on contemporary strategies for the prevention, remediation and control of crime and delinquency. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 340 Criminal Justice Research Methodology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. Elementary statistics including descriptives, measurements and tests; data collection methods for effort evaluation and program prediction; systems analysis techniques. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 345 Corrections |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. This course provides an overview and analysis of the evolving and conflicting purposes and practices associated with the adult corrections systems, with an emphasis upon contemporary strategies for treating/punishing offenders both while incarcerated, as well as while in the community. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 350 Principles and Concepts of Investigation and Reporting |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. Principles of investigative activity practiced by police, courts and correctional subsystems. Reporting procedures and requirements. Meets classroom portion of upper-division writing requirement for Criminal Justice majors, or as an elective in the concentration curriculum. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 385 Minorities and the Criminal Justice System |
| Description: Prerequisite: completion of General Education Category II and Category III.C.1; Crim Just 300 recommended. An introduction to the issues surrounding the charges of overt and indirect institutionalized racism in the criminal justice system. An overview of patterns of criminal behavior among minority groups in the U.S. will be discussed. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 405 Justice Policy |
| Description: Prerequisites: Crim Just 300 and 330. Not open to students who have studied Criminal Justice policy as Crim Just 475T. The evolving purposes and practices associated with the development of criminal justice policies, principally in the United States. Particular topics, such as sentencing legislation, illustrate the development, adoption, and impact of public policy on criminal justice systems. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 422 Human Resources Management |
| Description: (Same as Political Science 422) |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 425 Juvenile Justice Administration |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. Definitions of “delinquency” and the related responses of the interested institutions (police, courts and correction); the juvenile court (past and present), and prevention and correction programs (practicing and proposed). |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 430 Women and Crime |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300 or Philosophy 302. An examination of women as criminals and victims, gender differences in criminal behavior and the role of women as professionals in the criminal justice system. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 450 Organized Crime and Intelligence Analysis |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. History and development of organized crime. Current criminological strategies of control of organizational crime. Systems theories and other analytical techniques of police intelligence. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 455 Gangs and the Criminal Justice System |
| Description: Prerequisites: Crim Just 300. Causal factors of, and legal solutions to, gang-related crime in the United States are examined. Relevance of sociological, psychological, economic, and educational deviance theories to justice intervention strategies is emphasized. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 462 Crime Analysis |
| Description: Prerequisites: Crim Just 300 and 340. This course will examine the crime analysis function within the law enforcement organization, demonstrate how to develop, implement and operate a crime analysis unit, and discuss the nexus between crime analysis, field and investigative operations, and administrative bureaus. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 465 Law, Punishment and Justice |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. Theoretical scholarship in criminal justice is increasingly concerned with law in relation to delivery of justice and practices of punishment. Students will examine the rule of law, question whether justice is different from law, and review the role punishment plays. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 470 Sex, Crime and Culture |
| Description: Prerequisite: Criminal Just 300. Analysis of rationale for law’s concern with sexual conduct, developed via discussion of selected offenses and offenders. Lectures and guest speakers also present opposing perspectives regarding the role of law enforcement, courts and correction. Research and reform will be reviewed. Field trips to be arranged. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 472 The Judicial Process |
| Description: Prerequisites: Crim Just 300 or Political Science 375. The nature, functions and roles of courts. Roles of major participants in the American legal system, including judges, attorneys and citizens.The administration of justice as a system. (Same as Political Science 472) |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 475T Topics in Administration of Justice: A Seminar |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. Current social, legal and practical problems confronting police, courts and corrections. A “variable topic” class with specific subjects to be announced each semester. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 480 Courtroom Evidence |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300. The rules of evidence in the context of a criminal trial in a California court. The rules, their application and their rationale. Lecture, discussion and simulated courtroom situations. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 485 Search, Seizure and Interrogation I |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300 or consent of instructor. Analysis of the laws that apply in common street search-and-seizure and interrogation situations in California; how they have evolved, and what developments are anticipated. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 486 Search, Seizure and Interrogation II |
| Description: Prerequisite: Crim Just 300 or consent of instructor. An analysis of the laws that apply in some search-and-seizure and interrogation situations, such as those involving the border patrol and College officials. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 492 Pre-law Internship |
| Description: (Same as Political Science 492) |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 495 Internships |
| Description: Prerequisites: Crim Just 300 or senior standing and consent of instructor. The criminal justice professions; eight to 20 hours per week as a supervised intern in a public agency or related organization. In addition to the job experience, interns meet in a weekly three-hour seminar. |
Units: (3)
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| CRJU 499 Independent Study |
| Description: Prerequisites: at least 12 units of criminal justice and consent of adviser. Student selects an individual research project, either library or field. Conferences with adviser as necessary, culminating in one or more papers. May be repeated for credit. |
Units: (1-3)
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