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CRMJ 5301 Ethics of Police, Courts, and Correction
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course examines the moral and ethical issues in law enforcement, the courts, and the correctional systems. Students will research major components of criminal justice, developing administrative-based leadership skills in dealing with codes of conduct, ethical dilemmas, disciplinary protocols, and departmental liability.
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CRMJ 5302 Administrative and Management Development in Criminal Justice
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course explores functional aspects of the criminal justice system, including planning and development, budgeting, forecasting, human resource management, and project management. Students will research a criminal justice agency’s organizational theories and behaviors. The research will be formatted on advanced factors of administrative duties of a leader guiding a law enforcement agency, dealing with constraints, the department’s strengths, and limitations while coming up with viable solutions.
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CRMJ 5303 Constitutional Law in Criminal Justice
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course analyzes the application of constitutional law principles to the foundations of the criminal justice system from the perspective of a law enforcement administrator. Students will research case studies that emphasize aspects of civil rights and civil liberty violations committed by law enforcement agencies and how to investigate these violations in policy and preparation.
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CRMJ 5304 Faith-Based Leadership & Crime Response
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course studies the intersection of Christian teachings and the criminal justice system, exploring the attributes of a Christian leader within the contexts of crime prevention and response. Students will apply different Christian teaching to different scenarios of a criminal justice professional in the workplace (e.g. in relation to victims, community & evidence-based policing, treatment of offenders, etc.).
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CRMJ 5305 Policy Development & Community Policing
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course looks at the relationship between inner departmental policy development and outer departmental development through community policing. Students will study how to create and implement agency policy that fits into detailed legal and general order parameters. Students will also research factors of community policing to benefit law enforcement within a community. The course will demonstrate the imperative need to understand the details of criminal justice policy and community policing and how these topics directly affect one another.
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CRMJ 5306 Advanced Criminological Theory
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course offers students an advanced study in the theoretical causes of crime. It covers multiple perspectives on the cause of crime through the lenses of biological, psychological, sociological, cultural, and political theories. Students will complete the course and be able to apply criminological theory to their academic research and occupational endeavors.
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CRMJ 5307 Advanced Penology
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course studies both traditional and more recent philosophies of imprisonment. Topics included are prison architecture, management, prison gangs, over-crowding, life in prison versus death row, prison culture, mental ill inmates, and inmate social structure.
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CRMJ 5308 Conflict Resolution for Mental Crisis Intervention
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course examines how to advance and implement structural agendas for crisis intervention including: recognition of threat levels, verbal judo, active listening, operative mediation strategies, and negotiation policies for mentally unstable persons. This course will familiarize the student with crisis theory, concepts, intervention, and strategies required for criminal justice first responders.
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CRMJ 5309 Victimology and Child Exploitation
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course will offer students two perspectives on what it is to be a victim of crime, particularly focusing upon at-risk victims. The first part will study a crime victim, looking at general and detailed aspects from theory to empirical data. This research will focus on both offenders and victims of human trafficking, while researching the developmental process on these targeted victims.
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CRMJ 5310 Crime and Problem Mapping
Prerequisite(s): None.
This course will allow students to gain a foundational understanding of criminal intelligence and apply it to Geographic Information Systems software to enhance their criminal investigation dissemination. Students will be able to use geospatial information to create interactive mapping systems that plot viable intelligence for solving crimes and identifying hotspot areas within their community.
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CRMJ 5316 Thesis Research and Writing I
Prerequisite(s): None.
In this course, students collaborate with a faculty advisor on the initial stages of the research thesis proposal. The student will be tasked with developing a proposal relevant to the student’s concentration in criminal justice, presenting that research proposal, and beginning data collection.
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