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  • CRJ 8070: Spec Top Doc Crim Just Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is a focused examination of an emerging and dynamic problem or issue in the criminal justice system at the doctoral level. Topics will generally be such as to be particularly relevant to policing, corrections, and the judicial process. Accordingly, the course will provide the student with the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills learned in the program to subject matter that will vary each semester
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  • CRJ 8080: Criminal Justice Training

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Criminal justice training is evolving in complex ways, both from a substantive perspective and by way pedagogy and andragogy. This course provides the necessary tools for criminal justice managers, leaders, and trainers to conduct relevant and critical needs assessments, develop lesson plans, provide training for newly promulgated policies, and overall gain a better understanding of adult learners in the criminal justice profession.
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  • CRJ 8090: Constitutional Policing & Corr

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Of critical importance to municipalities, police departments, correctional institutions, and criminal justice practitioners generally, is the notion of civil liability. In this course students will examine specific conduct such as illegal search and seizure, false arrests, and how all of this applies to criminal justice managers and department heads. The analysis begins with negligent hiring in the first instance, and follows through examining negligent training, negligent supervision, and negligent retention.
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  • CRJ 8100: Achieving Justice More Often

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    When all is said and done, the public, victims, and individual defendants demand and deserve justice. The guilty must be treated fairly, but in a way that meets the goals and objectives of criminal justice public policy. And innocent persons should not be convicted of crimes they did not commit. Consequently, this course will involve an in-depth analysis of the notions of under criminalizing versus over criminalizing conduct, managing the consequences of legislative (policy) decisions, defense errors in capital cases, prosecutorial misconduct, the utility of and possible end to grand juries, and the reasons for wrongful convictions.
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  • CRJ 8110: 21st Century Policing

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Students will critically examine the role of the police and the proper oversight of law enforcement policies, procedures, and tactics. Specific issues to be covered include examining the relationship between police efforts and crime rates, predictive policing, pursuits, race and diversity, and use of force. Overall, course design involves developing and integrating public policy for policing in America to specifically include policy related to the investigation of officer-involved shootings, use of force, and complaints of civil rights abuses. Included within these policies are media relations and keeping the public informed of the status of critical incidents.
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  • CRJ 9000: Doctoral Research Portfolio

    6.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This is the culminating course for the completion of the D.C.J. degree program and the professional, evidence-based, doctoral research portfolio process. The underlying focus of this course involves the continuation and finalization of the doctoral research portfolio by aligning the research question with the in-depth examination of relevant selected items of previously published scientific scholarship in the specialized area of inquiry. The doctoral candidate will do so by establishing the research context and evaluating the text, including the research methods, validity and reliability. From there, candidates will examine the results and establish the significance of the research. Ultimately, doctoral candidates will synthesize all data in order to be able to present best practices in a particular area of criminal justice.
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  • CRS 7000: Conflict Res Theory & Prac

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is designed to provide a strong foundation in conflict studies for the scholar or practitioner. It explores various theoretical perspectives that inform appropriate processes to mediate or resolve emerging and existing conflicts. As such, the student will explore origins and conditions of conflict development, the levels of expression, and its intersectional exposure in a variety of disciplines. A context appropriate role of the mediator will be explored along with appropriate interventions. This course sequences from theoretical investigation to utilization of recognized professional approaches to dispute resolution in its various forms.
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  • CRS 7100: Internat & Intercult CR

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course will study all aspects of conflict that occur within the contemporary international system. The course will begin with the nature and form of conflict from war to economic actions to ethnic conflicts and civil wars that impact the international system. Following this, the student will consider various means for preventing conflict and bringing about resolution and reconciliation, from traditional diplomacy to international organizations to cooperative economic frameworks. Finally, detailed study will be given - through the use of a number of case studies to the actual process of diplomatic mediation and the negotiation process.
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  • CRS 7150: Socio-Cult App to Ident Conf

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course examines the diversified and globally mediated formations of identities. Course content addresses how identities are shaped through reciprocal contact with varied social, communal, and cultural groups, physically and/or virtually. Identity formation is explored in relation to the concepts of conflict, violence, and cooperation.
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  • CRS 7200: Nonviolence: Theory and Pract

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    The course centers on nonviolent direct action as means to redress and make visible social injustices. It is an examination of the philosophy, history, strategies, and tactics used to raise public awareness and institute social, political, and economic change.
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