Criminal Justice Planning. Presented within a framework of a planned, proactive response to crime by all components of the criminal justice system. Principles of planning, research, and evaluation as applied to crime prevention. Basic concepts of criminal law and of elements of criminal offenses in Minnesota in particular. Includes crimes against persons, crimes against property, and crimes against the administration of justice.
Case method is used to define the contours of judicial interpretation of criminal law.
Problems, concepts, principles, and techniques involved in the investigation of a crime. Rules of evidence for the criminal investigator. Rights of the criminally accused, primarily those involved in the pre-trial stages of the criminal process. Bill of Rights as it pertains to the criminally accused. Primarily for those entering the police profession.