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• CRJ 8010: Applied CJ Research Methods

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Regardless of which element of the criminal justice profession one works, effective managers and leaders need to be able to interpret and apply qualitative and quantitative research methods. Students will learn how to interpret results of published research that can assist in effective policy development, crime control, supervision, and training. In the end, students will be able to apply evidence-based research to day-to-day criminal justice issues and problems.
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• CRJ 8020: Criminal Justice Theory

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Through this course, students sing relevant theory will learn to challenge underlying assumptions to changes in the broad field of criminal justice. Examples include broken windows, routine activities, and control theory. Students will learn about means of achieving crime reduction through condition change, and accordingly, will design an assessment of relevant organizational change.
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• CRJ 8030: Improving Juvenile Justice

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  A modern examination of juvenile justice issues in America, students will examine the literature surrounding the relationship between the drop in crime and increase in punishment, encounters with police on the street and in schools, solitary confinement, and use of residential placements. Contemporary problems, such as private correctional facilities and the Pennsylvania scandal will be addressed. Finally, students will have the opportunity to study, discuss, and critique National Institute of Justice and the National Academy of Sciences reports on reform.
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• CRJ 8040: Legal Research Methods CJ

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will focus on legal research methods for criminal justice practitioners. Special emphasis will be placed on evaluating legal research sources, primary and secondary sources, and legal writing. Students will practice research techniques that are designed to ensure timeliness and relevancy to a particular subject within a specific jurisdiction. Finally, students will learn about contemporary and scientific trends surrounding judicial use of empirical academic research.
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• CRJ 8050: Corrections: Crisis and Mgt

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines contemporary issues in corrections such as the use and overuse of probation and incarceration, the empirical assessment of risk in sentencing decisions, and the management of jails and prisons. Intertwined with these issues are the causes and consequences of sentencing disparity. Additionally, students will critically examine methods of avoiding federal consent decrees through proper policies, procedures, management, and leadership. Further, students will learn to implement policies relating to the enforcement of federal consent decrees.
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• CRJ 8060: Adv Crim Law and Procedure

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Law is at the very core of the criminal justice system and its problems. Accordingly, this course will cover critical trends in substantive and procedural criminal law, including civil rights, hate crimes, and terrorism provisions at the federal and state levels. U.S. Supreme Court cases, particularly those surrounding search and seizure and the use of force, will be covered as well as other law-related key issues around the country
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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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