Topical areas to be covered include developing communications skills, managing time and stress, coping with difficult personalities, managing group behavior, and establishing and maintaining a leadership role. Topics are selected from areas recommended by the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council for the pre-employment training of correctional personnel. Child Abuse and the Criminal Justice System Provides an understanding of child abuse and neglect as it involves the criminal justice system and public welfare. Develops skills needed for intervention and follow-up of complaints and in collaborating with other human service systems charged with the responsibility for dealing with child abuse and neglect cases. The history and development of criminal law as a form of social control, the evolution of criminal law from civil law, and the relationship between common and statutory criminal law.
Emphasis is given to substantive aspects of criminal law through case study.
Criminology Origin and development of crime, the relationship between law and crime, theories of social and psychological factors in criminal and delinquent behavior, current programs for treatment and prevention. In addition, topics such as fingerprinting, photography, and radar will be discussed. Introduces the fundamental scientific theories necessary to understand the above. It is preferable but not mandatory to take CRJ 201 prior to CRJ 202. The criminal process from investigation through indictment, arrest, arraignment, trial, and sentencing.