Focuses on the sociological aspects of urban planning and redevelopment. Course includes a historical and philosophical overview of punishment with emphasis on human rights versus prisoners' rights and court decisions which have affected juvenile and adult offenders. Special emphasis is on federal, state, and local laws governing environmental management, resources, pollution, technology, and analysis of population, consumerism, global economies, and cultural differences producing environmental impact. This course reviews and analyzes the codified aspects of the juvenile justice system. Study begins with the establishment of paternity and ends with reaching the age of eighteen, emancipation, marriage or certifying a juvenile to be treated as an adult under the Ohio Revised Code legally or in a criminal matter.
Emphasis is on critical thinking and legal analysis.
Selected contemporary issues within the seminar context may be open to the public. This in-depth course requires the student to analyze criminal and system victimization, restitution alternatives, sexual assault, spousal abuse, child maltreatment, elderly abuse, homicide, and victim's rights legislation. The course emphasizes the importance of effective written guidelines, communication, budgeting, performance appraisals, time management, community policing, policy development, managing the disciplinary process, media relations, total quality management, as well as other critical thinking issues facing the criminal justice administrator into the future. A variety of viewpoints examining important elements of advanced police and corrections operations and administration will be presented and these positions will be critically compared and contrasted. Provides a course in effective communication and cultural competence with diverse offender populations, which contains methods, processes, techniques, and skills for increased success in correcting offenders' anti-social and illegal behaviors.