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This course is designed to introduce students to criminal investigations. It will provide an overview of the evolution of policing and investigation, rules of evidence and arrest, the crime scene, physical evidence, development of basic investigative leads, use of informants, interviewing and interrogation, investigating major crime categories, and ethical awareness.

This course provides a thorough understanding of basic court system procedures, criminal law concepts, beginning with their historical basis in the Constitution, and the jurisdiction of courts. Students will examine requirements that affect law enforcement practices and procedures. Topics will include confessions and interrogations, witness identifications, issues of due process, evidentiary processes and complications. During the course, students will examine criminal procedure in relation to landmark court decisions.

A survey of the delinquent as a person and delinquency as a social problem. Emphasis is on the extent, causation, prevention, treatment, and theories of delinquency. Prerequisite: SOCI 1311.

This course introduces students to police authority. Discussions include responsibilities and constitutional restraints, laws of arrest, search and seizure, and police liability. Controversial issues of police authority, responsibility and constitutional restraints placed on criminal justice professionals will be examined.

This course offers an overview of the criminal justice system. It examines the nature and causes of crime, criminal law, constitutional safeguards, and the organization and operation of the criminal justice system including the police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, community corrections, and juvenile justice. It briefly covers the history of crime in America and includes relevant terminology.