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Criminal Justice
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Sociology for Law Enforcement |
| Prerequisite |
CJ 200 or CJ 300 |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
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 sociology 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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| Title |
Drug Abuse Control Policy |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
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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Internship |
| Course Outline |
Course Outline |
| Description |
A supervised, practical experience in criminal justice. A maximum of 12 internship credits may be applied to the degree. Credits may not be applied to the criminal justice major. |
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| Title |
Topics in Criminal Justice |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
This is an upper division course with varying topics from the discipline of criminal justice. |
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Readings in Criminal Justice |
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Course Outline |
| Description |
Selected readings in Criminal Justice under the close supervision of a member of the CJ program. |
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