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This course will examine in some detail crimes such as murder, serial killers, child molesters, rapists, and related crimes of violence. Topics such as psychological profiling of serial killers, rapists, and child molesters will also be discussed.

The study of theories and practices in areas of legality, morality, values and ethics as they pertain to criminal justice with special consideration given to the application of Christian ethical principles to values clarification and decision-making in Criminal Justice agencies and social institutions that influence those agencies.

This course introduces students to the collection of forensic evidence, the analysis of forensic evidence, and the use of forensic evidence in criminal trials.

This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the legal, social, and technical impact of cybercrime. It will also analyze the tools needed to combat cybercrime through both the private and public sectors and evaluate such efforts.

In this course, students will explore relationships between the individual and government as revealed through constitutional law cases with an emphasis on the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Research Methods and Analysis in Criminal Justice gives students an introduction to research methods and data analysis pertinent to the study of crime, criminality, and the criminal justice system. Students will have an opportunity to study classic and contemporary research in criminal justice and apply research methods in their research projects. Their research works include literature review, problem study, experiment design, ethical data collection, survey design, sampling, observation, validation of data, data management, data analysis, interpretation of data in every research. Further studies include exploring modern statistics methods to analyze data and support findings in student's research.

Students will analyze and evaluate management of and leadership within criminal justice agencies.

This course examines the laws, procedures, and traditions of the criminal courtroom. After an overview of the philosophical and historical foundation of our modern-day criminal court, the course will study the process through the court system from the filing of charges, setting of bail, plea bargaining, and trial. The roles of the various parties in the courtroom--prosecutor, defense attorney, judge, and jury--will be analyzed. Famous trials in Anglo-American jurisprudence will be used to highlight and illustrate basic concepts.

Individually arranged study and/or research in the area of criminal justice.

Designed to place the student with a criminal justice activity for a firsthand look at how the agency functions.

Students completing this course will enhance their research, analysis, and critical thinking skills through the completion of a capstone paper in which students plan, research, and write a scholarly paper addressing a current issue within Criminal Justice relevant to their interests. Prerequisite: CRJ-467

This course will provide an opportunity for seniors in the criminal justice program to meet and discuss selected topics involving current issues facing the American system of justice. Group discussion, presentations, and brief research papers will be used in the seminar.