The course also examines typical improprieties of the industry, security officer negligence, stress management, and interactions with public law enforcement. This is a seminar for advanced criminal justice students who will study and analyze typical criminal justice problems. Extensive library work is required along with independent study of various problems. Special seminars may be considered for course credit at the discretion of the criminal justice coordinator. Probation, pardon and parole are examined as judicial process and an executive function.
Emphasis is to be placed on the philosophical approach to probation, pardon and parole.
Contemporary methods such as work release programs, halfway houses, and parole clinics are to be examined. A study of criminal procedures which will examine the process by which the criminal law is brought to bear on individuals in society - as spelled out in the Pennsylvania rules. The course considers all aspects of the criminal processes from the filing of the complaint through the pretrial and trail stages and into the sentencing and pretrial or trial sentencing phases such as probation, parole, and post correctional proceedings as controlled by these rules. Fundamentals of the interviewing process and interrogative technology, taking into consideration the nature, methods, and principles of interviewing with emphasis on role playing in interviews. A comprehensive analysis of the rules of evidence.