Overview
Description
American criminal justice system, its development, components, and processes; includes consideration of crime and criminal justice as a formal area of study.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Core
CO6
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate a basic understanding of the field of criminal justice including its key components and the importance of research and critical thinking to criminal justice policy in class discussions, exams, and assignments.
- identify central issues and ideas about criminological theory and the study of crime victims in discussions, exams, and assignments.
- identify and define the roles and functions of the police, courts, and corrections components of the criminal justice system including their key actors and organizational structures.
- understand the importance of law including the US constitution in regard to the functioning and goals of the criminal justice system.
- systematically analyze human social conditions (e.g., individuals, groups, communities, and cultures) as they relate to the Criminal Justice System in the United States.
- observe, theorize, model, experiment, and interpret as it relates to criminal behavior and the administration of justice in the United States.