CRJ 101. Introduction to Criminal Justice. (3 Credits)

A. A general overview of the criminal justice system including a description of the major agencies: police, prosecution, courts, and corrections, and an analysis of their interdependence in the criminal justice process.

CRJ 204. Foundations of Corrections. (3 Credits)

An overview of the evolution, structure, and functioning of corrections in the United States. Examines correctional processes, populations, and issues.

CRJ 301. Drugs, Crime, and Society. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. An examination of drug trafficking, the connection between drug use and other types of crime, and a review of drug control policies, including the impact of the media and politics.

CRJ 302. Living and Working in Prison. (3 Credits)

A. Cross-listed as COR 302. Examines inmate subcultures and violence in prisons. Analyzes prison environment for correctional officers. Explores life behind bars/ offender difficulties in reentering society.

CRJ 303. Community Corrections. (3 Credits)

A. Cross-listed as COR 303. Explores impact offender have on community. Examines formal correctional options and alternative methods of social control used to manage offenders in community. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 303 and COR 303.

CRJ 305. Domestic Violence. (3 Credits)

A. Cross listed as WGS 305. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or WGS 201 or departmental approval. Examination of the theoretical and empirical literature on violence against women, children, and elders. Addresses such issues as physical and sexual abuse of children, courtship violence, domestic violence, marital rape, and elder abuse. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for WGS 305.

CRJ 310. Gangs and Society. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Explores the historical and contemporary development of street and institutional gangs. Examines the nature and definition of gangs, types of gangs, and diversity of membership of gangs. Analyzes social responses in the form of legislation, intervention and prevention strategies, public policy, media portrayals, and law enforcement. Identifies and assess social, behavioral, cultural theories of gangs and society. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 310, Gangs and Society, and CRJ 423, Topical Seminar: Gangs.

CRJ 311. Juvenile Justice System. (3 Credits)

A. Cross-listed as COR 311. Examines the evolution of the juvenile justice system, police repsonse to deliquency, and juvenile court's role in protecting the public and serving children. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 311 and COR 311.

CRJ 313. Criminal Justice Ethics. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Examines the moral, legal and normative obligations of the state and criminal justice professionals. Surveys the philosophies and theories of ethics and deviance. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 313 and CRJ 313W.

CRJ 313S. Criminal Justice Ethics. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 with a grade of "C" or better, sophomore standing, or departmental approval. Examines the moral, legal and normative obligations of the state and criminal justice professionals. Surveys the philosophies and theories of ethics and deviance enhanced with a service-learning component. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for CRJ 313.

CRJ 314. Law and Society. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201or departmental approval. Critically examines law in everyday life. Law infuses popular media, constructs (and constrains) identity, and pervades language. In turn, media, identity, and discourse construct our understandings of law. Particular attention is paid to the law’s role in practices and discourses of resistance and in exerting social control.

CRJ 315. Administration of Justice. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 with a grade of ¿C¿ or better, sophomore standing, or departmental approval. Examines theories of organization and management as they relate to criminal justice practice. Organizational life, leadership personnel management, bureaucracy, resource management, and other critical administration issues are addressed.

CRJ 323. Legal Issues in Adult Corrections. (3 Credits)

A. Cross-listed as COR 323. An overview on legal court decisions related to adult corrections. Analyzes legal issues surrounding adult correctional contexts and practices. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 323 and COR 323.

CRJ 325. White Collar/Crimes of the Powerful. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. A review and analysis of the upper world crimes of business and government committed in the course of legitimate occupations and financial activities.

CRJ 331. Criminological Theory. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Overview of criminological theoretical perspectives that attempt to explain crime. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 331 and CRJ 331W.

CRJ 331W. Criminological Theory. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or 102R or ENG 105 or HON 102 and CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201. Overview of criminological perspectives that attempt to explain crime. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 331W and CRJ 331.

CRJ 340. Crime and Media. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Critiques images of crime, criminals and punishment in American popular culture. Examines news media, film and television as sites of cultural production and consumption. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for CRJ 423 Topical Seminar: Crime and Media.

CRJ 342. Victimology. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Explores the ‘meaning’ of victim and the social response to the victimization experience. Theories are utilized to examine victimization at the individual, organizational and societal levels within the U.S. and globally. Credit not awarded to students who have credit for CRJ 423 Victimology.

CRJ 344. Violence Against Women. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201+ or departmental approval. Cross listed as WGS 344. Explores the social character of violence against women. A variety of theories are utilized to examine this phenomenon at the individual, organizational and societal levels. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for CRJ 423 Topical Seminar: Violence Against Women or WGS 344 Violence Against Women.

CRJ 350. International and Comparative Criminal Justice Systems. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. A survey of selected world criminal justice systems including police, courts, and corrections. Cross-national and cross-cultural criminality from several perspectives will be examined.

CRJ 355. Rural Crime and Justice. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: APP 200 or CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Survey of rural crime and justice issues, crime trends, policing, and control of rural crime with particular attention given to Kentucky and Appalachia. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 355 and APP 355.

CRJ 360. Rehabilitation Strategies for Adult and Juvenile Offenders. (3 Credits)

A. Cross-listed as COR 360. Debates the rehabilitative goal of corrections and juvenile justice. Examines contemporary strategies and their effectiveness in controlling/changing offender behavior. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 360 and COR 360.

CRJ 374. Wildlife Crime. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Explores wildlife crime as a subset of green criminology (the criminological study of environmental crimes and harms). Examines the nature and scope of wildlife crime, as well as responses thereto in the form of wildlife law, legislation, policy development, nongovernmental organizations, and law enforcement. Ideas and recommendations for addressing wildlife crime by justice systems are considered. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 374, Wildlife Crime, and CRJ 423, Topical Seminar: Wildlife Crime, or CRJ 423, .Topical Seminar: Policing Wildlife.

CRJ 375. Climate Change and Crime. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201or departmental approval. Overview of climate change and its effects. Draws on leading crime theories to discuss the potential impact of climate change on crime. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 375 Climate Change and Crime and CRJ 406 Critical Issues in CRJ: Climate Change and Crime.

CRJ 388. Research Methods. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Overview of the research process, with emphasis on finding, using, and evaluating criminal justice research. Examination of both quantitative and qualitative social science research methods and procedures appropriate to the study of crime policy and criminal justice. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for CRJ 388W.

CRJ 388W. Research Methods. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: ENG 102 or 102R, or ENG 105, or HON 102 and CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Overview of the research process, with emphasis on finding, using and evaluating criminal justice research. Examination of both quantitative and qualitative social science research methods and procedures appropriate to the study of crime policy and criminal justice. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for CRJ 388.

CRJ 400. Criminal Justice Statistics. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Analytical and statistical concepts and procedures relevant to crime and criminal justice data. Includes quantitative and qualitative techniques.

CRJ 401. Organized Crime. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. History, scope, and methods of control of organized crime. Emphasis on local, regional, national and international control of organized crime. Cultural and social implications of the presence of organized crime are examined in depth.

CRJ 403. Crime Mapping. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. The purpose of this class is to introduce the student to theoretical and practical aspects of crime mapping and the spatial analysis of crime. In addition the lab portion of the class will provide hands-on training in crime mapping practices. 3 Lec/2 Lab.

CRJ 406. Critical Issues in Criminal Justice. (1-6 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201, sophomore standing, or departmental approval. Examination of the criminal justice system and process with an emphasis on problems and trends. This course provides an analytical overview of justice and its response to the needs of society. May be retaken for a maximum of six hours on different topics.

CRJ 411. Capital Punishment in the U.S.. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Examines the historical and contemporary administration of the death penalty in the United States. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 411 Capital Punishment in the U.S. and CRJ 423 Topical Seminar: Capital Punishment in the U.S.

CRJ 412. Gender, Class, and Race. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Critically examines gender, class and race and their intersections as they pertain to crime, offending, victimization, and punishment. This course will lead students to an understanding of how the criminal justice apparatus operates within larger social, political, and economic systems of oppression and domination over marginalized populations.

CRJ 413. Addressing Mental Health and Substance Abuse Needs of Adult Offenders. (3 Credits)

A. Formerly: COR 320. Cross-listed as COR 413. Examines etiology and effects of substance abuse/ mental health problems of adult offenders. Describes intervention strategies. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for COR 413 or COR 320.

CRJ 422. Human Trafficking. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Critically examines the global problem of human trafficking. Using a historical and comparative framework, this course reveals variation in human trafficking patterns in different regions of the world and efforts to combat human trafficking by means of prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership.

CRJ 423. Topical Seminar:___. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Intensive study of selected topics related to criminal justice. May be retaken with different topics up to 12 credit hours.

CRJ 424. Field Experience. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: instructor and departmental approval and CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201. Designed to broaden the educational experience through appropriate observational work assignments. (Intended for pre-service students in non-sworn positions.) May be retaken 1 time for 6 total credit hours.

CRJ 426. Victimology. (3 Credits)

(3). A. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. This course describes and examines victimization broadly including those of crime, their treatment by the criminal justice system, their resources, rights and needs, and situating the study of victims within larger social and power structures. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for CRJ 406 Critical Issues in Criminal Justice or CRJ 423 Topical Seminar in Victimology.

CRJ 430. Crime and the Economy. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Examines capitalism as it contributes to crime. Demonstrates how cultural aspirations and structural barriers create a criminogenic society and socioeconomic bias in criminal justice.

CRJ 440. Pathological Gambling and Crime. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. This course examines problem gambling and its relationship to crime and criminal justice. Special attention is given law, corrections, and offending. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 440 Pathological Gambling and Crime and CRJ 423 Topical Seminar: Problem Gambling.

CRJ 460. Independent Study. (1-3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: departmental approval and instructor approval and CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201. Individual study and/or research on a problem pertaining to criminal justice. Student must have the independent study proposal form approved by faculty supervisor and departmental chair prior to enrollment. May be retaken for a maximum of six hours.

CRJ 490W. Senior Seminar. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or 102R or ENG 105 or HON 102 and senior standing and completion of CRJ 331, CRJ 388 and at least 21 hours of CRJ coursework or departmental approval. Capstone course requiring the production of a senior level paper grounded in relevant criminal justice literature. Emphasis on integration of knowledge acquired in previous courses. Credit will not be awarded for both CRJ 490 and CRJ 490W.

CRJ 540. Special Problems in Crimin Law. (3 Credits)

Advanced study of criminal law and criminal procedure. Consideration of problems relating to the police role in the administration of criminal justice and judicial enforcement of limitations upon police practices.

CRJ 800. Advanced Crimi Justice Studies. (3 Credits)

A. An orientation to our field of study as well as an examination of the criminal justice and crime control apparatus. Includes a review of the assumptions, theories, research, and normative orientations that underlie and drive criminal justice thinking and practice.

CRJ 801. History of Criminal Justice. (3 Credits)

A. An examination of the historical development of the criminal justice system.

CRJ 802. Violence Against Women. (3 Credits)

A. This course provides students with a human rights framework and cross-cultural understanding of violence against women, and efforts across societies to translate international knowledge into local justice for gender-based violence and female victims.

CRJ 808. Analysis of Crimi Justice Data. (3 Credits)

A. An examination of statistics and analysis in criminal justice research. Addresses epistemological presuppositions, statistical assumptions, results, and use of results for decision making.

CRJ 810. Advanced Police Administration. (3 Credits)

A. An examination of the functions of the police in the criminal justice system; concepts and principles of police organizational structure; concepts and principles of administration and management with an emphasis on the environment, change, conflict, strategy and evolution.

CRJ 813. Analysis of Police Operations. (3 Credits)

A. An analysis of the strategies and programs utilizedin modern police work. Previous research studies and contemporary methods for assessing the effectiveness of police practices are examined.

CRJ 814. Policing and Society. (3 Credits)

A. Theoretical, historical and comparative perspectives on policing. Critical analysis of the function of police in modern society.

CRJ 815. Policing Global Insecurity. (3 Credits)

A. Examines ¿global security threats¿ (e.g. terrorism, transnational crime, ethnic cleansing) and the State and private sector¿s role in their construction and control. Late-modern social, political, and cultural movements are used to make theoretical sense of these phenomena.

CRJ 821. Class, Race, Gender, & Justice. (3 Credits)

A. Course will examine issues of justice related to race, gender, class and intersections inherent between multiple identities. Significant attention to marginalized populations/ disparate outcomes within particular institutions.

CRJ 823. Social Justice and Music. (3 Credits)

I, II. This course analyzes how American society and justice are reflected in popular music and its performance. The course examines connections between music, culture, history and society. A knowledge of music is not a pre-requisite.

CRJ 829. Juvenile Justice. (3 Credits)

A. This course presents a critical analysis of juvenile justice operations with particular emphasis placed on history and the role and effectiveness of police, court, and correctional responses to juvenile offenders.

CRJ 833. Human Trafficking. (3 Credits)

A. Critically examines the global problem of human trafficking and international legal frameworks, including obligations for prevention, protection, prosecution and partnership as it relates to addressing human trafficking.

CRJ 840. Punishment and Society. (3 Credits)

I. Beginning with the enlightenment and classical philosophers, students will examine historical and current trends in punishment and social control theory and practice. Addresses social control and punishment in late-modernity.

CRJ 842. Human Rights & Justice. (3 Credits)

A. Studies human rights movements, international law, and issues such as war on terrorism. Applies a paradigm of global human-rights justice to identify problem exemplars, exemplary problems solutions, and failing as well as failed paradigms.

CRJ 843. Adv Issues in Criminal Law. (3 Credits)

A. Advanced study of criminal law and procedure with emphasis upon judicial supervision of law enforcement and review of convictions.

CRJ 844. Innocence Project Externship. (3 Credits)

A. Corequisite and or Prerequisite: CRJ 843 and departmental approval. The externship is designed to teach students the fundamental components of effective criminal investigation. Students will have the opportunity to apply investigation skills and knowledge offered in the classroom to cases which may contain previously overlooked exculpatory evidence.

CRJ 846. Legal Issues in Crim Just Admi. (3 Credits)

A. Legal research methodology; examination of employment problems including labor-management relations and discrimination; administrative agencies; civil liability, including vicarious liability and related issues.

CRJ 856. Legal & Ehical Issues in Corre. (3 Credits)

An analysis of the impact of federal and state laws, court decisions, and moral and ethical issues in relation to treatment procedures for adult and juvenile offenders. Emphasis on offender's retention of constitutional guarantees.

CRJ 864. Comparative & Intl Policing. (3 Credits)

A. Examination of comparative and international policing focusing on the structure and processes of systems in other nations, their relative successes, failures, and effects on the world environment.

CRJ 866. Law & the Juvenile Just System. (3 Credits)

A study of laws relevant to the juvenile justice system with a major focus on further development of laws in terms of current needs and social situations of juvenile offenders.

CRJ 870. Theories of Crime & Crim Just. (3 Credits)

A. Examines the major theoretical perspectives in modern criminology and criminal justice, including classical statements and contemporary developments. Provides an exploration of theoretical arguments, underlying assumptions, philosophy of science commitments, and the sociohistorical context in which the theories were developed.

CRJ 871. Crime, Victims and Criminals. (3 Credits)

A. Examines the relationship between social inequality, crime, criminals and victims. Addresses the use of power in the construction of crime and the creation of law, as well as differential treatment by gender, race, ethnicity and class.

CRJ 872. The Community Context of Crime. (3 Credits)

A. Examines crime and synthesizes the body of theory and research examining community level effects on crime/crime control.

CRJ 873. Social Construction of Crime. (3 Credits)

A. Examines the social construction of crime including consideration of the process by which crime problems are generated.

CRJ 874. Crime, Criminal Jus & Pop Cult. (3 Credits)

A. Examines the interrelatedness of consumption, production, crime and popular culture. Examination of the social and symbolic construction of crime will be included through analysis of film, literature, music, and academic literature.

CRJ 875. Crime and Public Policy. (3 Credits)

A. Provides an overview of factors shaping crime policy. The concept of crime, the use of law to promote social control policies, policy responses related to crime control and the efficacy of those policies will be examined. Addresses conceptualizations of the modern state and the use of state power.

CRJ 876. Organizational Crime. (3 Credits)

A. This course explores empirical research, theories, and concepts related to crime committed within organizational contexts. Particular attention is paid to forms of syndicated crime, corporate crime, governmental corruption, and state crime.

CRJ 877. Postmodernism and Justice. (3 Credits)

A. An introduction to the ideas of postmodernism as applied to criminal justice. In contrast to the scientific model of inquiry most often used in criminal justice, the use of postmodernism brings to the field of criminal justice new models characterized by relationships, the importance of symbols, and assumptions that underlieour understanding of the concept of justice.

CRJ 878. Ideology and Criminal Justice. (3 Credits)

A. An assessment of the interrelatedness of crime and ideology. Includes an examination of the ideological construction of crime and crime control.

CRJ 879. Vice and Criminal Justice. (3 Credits)

A. A historical, analytic overview of America's response to vice. Particular topics will be chosen from the major vices in American society: prostitution, gambling, drugs and alcohol, as they relate to this country's relationship between morality and the criminal law.

CRJ 888. Research Methods in Crim Just. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisites: undergraduate research methods and undergraduate statistics. Study of the philosophical foundations, design, and processes of criminal justice and criminological research: critical critique of current research issues in criminal justice.

CRJ 889. Qualitative Research Methods. (3 Credits)

A. A survey of qualitative research strategies and their epistemological presuppositions.

CRJ 890. Topical Seminar in Crim Just. (3 Credits)

A. May be retaken to a maximum of twelve hours on different topics.

CRJ 897. Independent Study in Crim Just. (1-9 Credits)

A. Individual investigations in criminal justice. Under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Student must have the independent study proposal form approved by faculty supervisor and the criminal justice graduate program coordinator in the College of Justice and Safety prior to enrollment. May be retaken up to a maximum of nine hours.

CRJ 898. Thesis I. (3 Credits)

A. This course orients students toward the production of a proposal suitable for a thesis.

CRJ 899. Thesis II. (3 Credits)

A. Entails an oral presentation and defense of thesis.