This will include determining the important process and outcome indicators as well as ways to measure them. Examines complex ethical and legal issues of conducting research with examples from all areas of criminal justice, followed by designing and pretesting an original research project. Compares this proactive system to traditional reactive policing, with emphasis on philosophical, organizational, and methodological differences. The structure of courts, original and appellate jurisdiction, judicial selection and tenure, sentencing disparity, sentencing alternatives, and court administration. The major theories of the etiology of criminal behavior, including biological, environmental, and other causative factors.
Emphasis is on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.
An examination of approaches and methods to prevent the juvenile from entering or continuing a life of delinquency and crime. Also surveys and evaluates programs designed to prevent delinquency. An examination of the historic and philosophic origins of American criminal justice education. Provides a basis for understanding the diversity of programs in this field. Parallels with other professional programs in higher education which provide insight into current issues.