Arrests, illegal seizures, the exclusionary rule and the appeals process are examined. This course is designed as a department effort to improve the writing skills of criminal justice majors - technical and agency requirements in properly formatting reports. Utilization of library resources, compiling bibliographies and abstracting articles. Constitutional Procedures in Criminal Justice Practices and procedures of criminal justice personnel are regulated by Constitutional principles and safeguards. This course focuses on the nature of due process and equal protection requirements as they apply in criminal justice settings.
Special attention is given to the major components of the criminal justice system.
This is an interdisciplinary overview of the American Correctional System. Corrections refers to the sentencing, imprisonment and treatment of offenders coming to the attention of officials in criminal justice. Topics include the history of the American Prison System, research conducted on the inmate subcultural, structure and organization of corrections, case law on prisoner rights litigation and community based corrections. Empirical methods utilized in sociology, psychology, economics and journalism are reviewed - sampling techniques and various approaches to hypothesis testing are emphasized. This is a survey of descriptive and inferential statistics used in Criminal Justice research.