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Criminal Justice
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Seminar in Criminal Justice |
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Seminar in criminal justice featuring selected topics. The current seminar concentrates on women and crime. This seminar focuses on female offenders, practitioners and victims within the U.S. criminal justice system. Students will gain knowledge about gender crime trends (SLO 1), theoretical explanations of female criminality (SLO 2) and the gender gap in criminality (SLO 3). Students are expected to participate fully in class discussions of controversial topics related to female criminality (e.g. sexism, patriarchy, paternalism, and institutional racism) (SLO 4). We will engage in a variety activities and discussions to help foster a sense of community in the ‘classroom’ and an understanding of gender and crime. Repeatable for credit. |
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Sociology for Law Enforcement |
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CJ 200, CJ 300 or consent of instructor |
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This class examines the role of sociology in the development of American police policies and training. It emphasizes challenges such as homelessness, mental illness, autism, post-traumatic stress, suicide, and other issues of particular importance to rank and file police officers, and discusses how modern social science has challenged and improved American policing. The class also addresses a number of learning objectives required by the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training for police officer licensing. |
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Drug Abuse Control Policy |
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This course aims to understand the personal and societal impacts of drug use and abuse in late-modern societies and the systems and policies governments have implemented in response. It will include a sociological assessment of the societal construction of drug use as a social problem, and the complex interplay between moral panics around drug use/abuse and the creation of laws and social policy in response to the public’s outrage. This course studies drug policies in the United States and drug policies from other nation-states, including the global south, to see what lessons we can learn from other societies and cultures. It considers how drug laws/policies have differentially affected some communities especially BIPOC ones. The connection between drug abuse and crime, and the criminal justice response to this relationship, is a salient theme of the course. Finally, this course reflects on the medicalization of addiction and how the shift away from criminalizing drug use/abuse affects public policy and law enforcement practices. |
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Topics in Criminal Justice |
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This course will vary depending upon the topic chosen by individual instructors. |
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Advanced Criminology |
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Advanced study of crime distribution and the major theories of crime causation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Special attention is given to the nature, extent, and measurement of crime in the US, and fundamental debates in criminological thought in research unique to the field. Dominant criminological theories will be critically assessed. |
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Criminal Justice Agencies and Professional Leadership |
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This class examines leadership skills, situational influences on leadership, and leadership as a form of social relations. Special attention is given to how effective leaders manage a variety of issues including conflict resolution, problem solving, innovation, and initiatives that originate from outside of criminal justice agencies. |
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Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice |
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This course provides a historical and contemporary examination of restorative justice as practice and theory. Students will be required to develop their skills practicing restorative justice work in the field with practitioners and others. |
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Research & Planning |
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An in-depth exploration of research and commentary in a topical area of interest to the student. Topics will be selected in consultation with a graduate advisor with expertise in the field of study. This course is repeatable up to 8 credits. |
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Project/Action Research |
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This is a non-thesis capstone class. In this class students will apply advanced research skills toward the completion of an academic presentation or publication in criminal justice, or a program evaluation, or a program plan for a criminal justice agency. The scope of the project and the number of course credits will be determined in consultation with a graduate advisor who has expertise in the field of interest. Students will complete an oral defense of their project to a committee of three professors on the graduate faculty. This course is repeatable for up to 8 total credits. |
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