Overview
Description
Before creating criminal justice policy and implementing it, policymakers and practitioners must be up-to-date on current knowledge and recent developments about crime and the evidence-based practices that address crime. This course is designed to provide students with a research-informed understanding of crime and the responses of the the criminal justice system.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- evaluate programs, procedures, and policies that led to changes in policing, corrections, court and sentencing, and juvenile justice.
- interpret political, cultural, and intellectual sources of criminal justice public policy.
- evaluate recent literature examining criminal justice public policy through written critiques.
- articulate the “dos” and “don’ts” of implementing new programs, procedures, and policies.
- describe the special challenges and practices of criminal justice administrators.
- explain how police, court, and correction agencies are organized, their personnel roles and functions, and their issues and problems.
- discuss the nature and functions of an organization.