JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION COURSES

 

JUAD 2300. Administration of Justice - Operation of the agencies of justice administration:
police, prosecution, courts, correctional institutions, probation, and parole.

JUAD 2305. Police Patrol Operations - The history and practice of patrol operations in the
U.S. Prerequisite: None; however JUAD 2300 is recommended.

JUAD 3300. Criminal Law - Crimes against persons and property, parties to crimes, laws of arrest, search and seizure, laws of evidence, and criminal procedure.

JUAD 3301. Police-Community Relations - Purpose of police-community relations; responsibilities of government and citizenry in promoting positive relationships; community structure; minority group involvement; human relations problems; analysis of community problems.

JUAD 3303. Urban Sociology (SOCI 3303) - The city as a social phenomenon in the modern
world; analysis of urban-rural trends, characteristics, functions, ecology, and social organization.

JUAD 3304. Social Problems (SOCI 3304) - Social problems including causes, interrelationships, and programs of amelioration. Prerequisite: None; however, SOCI 1301 is recommended.

JUAD 3308. Criminal Investigation - Practical applications of forensic techniques as they
apply to modern law enforcement.

JUAD 3310. Criminology (SOCI 3310) - Theories, causes, characteristics, types of crime, and
social functions of crime in our society.

JUAD 3311. Police Administration - An analysis of the duties and responsibilities of police
administrators; problems peculiar to police administration as they relate to organization, personnel management, training, public relations, and the patrol function.

JUAD 3312. Law and Society (SOCI 3312) - Survey of the history and development of law
from primitive times until the present; and ways in which society shapes laws and how law
shapes society.

JUAD 3313. Murder, an Analytical Study - Theories, causes, characteristics, and types of
murder and murderers; the effect of murder on our society and the response of society; and case studies.

JUAD 3314. Psychology and the Law (PSYC 3314) - Critical view of major themes, including
rights of individuals vs. common good, equality vs. discretion, discovery of truth vs. conflict
resolution, and science vs. the law as a source of decisions.

JUAD 3316. Criminal Procedures - The judicial process, evidence collection, and documentation of facts relevant to crime investigations; emphasis of Fourth and Fifth Amendments; and a chronological order of court proceedings.

JUAD 3317. Rape: Perspectives on Sexual Assault (PSYC/SOCI 3317) - Description,
understanding, and investigation of sexual assaults; preventative techniques to avoid and deter would-be rapists and sexual assaulters.

JUAD 3319. American Legal System - A study of the American legal system including its
history and development, the courts, participants, processes, the adversarial system, and criminal and civil law.

JUAD 3320. Cultural Diversity (SOCI 3320) - A comparative analysis of the diverse cultural
groups in the United States and their changing sociological, economical and political status.

JUAD 3321. Marriage and the Family (PSYC/SOCI 3321) - Examination of the family as
a social institution; comparative analysis of kinship systems; and recent changes in American
family structure.

JUAD 3322. Introduction to Social Work (SOCI 3322) - Perspectives, working concepts,
goals of social work practice, examination of casework, group-work and community work.

JUAD 3325. Forensic Psychology (PSYC 3325) - Insights into the newest investigative tool
for law enforcement: criminal psychological profiling.

JUAD 4304. Organized Crime - Survey of organized crime in America, areas of influences,
remedial practices, and control.

JUAD 4307. Deviance (SOCI 4307) - Analysis of cultural norms and values; causes and
results of departure from those norms.

JUAD 4309. Juvenile Delinquency (SOCI 4309) - Nature and extent of delinquency, competing
explanatory methods and theories, evaluation and prevention, control and treatment programs.

JUAD 4311. Abnormal Psychology (PSYC 4311) - Symptoms and causes of major psychoses
and neuroses together with an introduction to principles of psychotherapy. Prerequisites:
PSYC 1301, 2301, and 3309 or 3310; or consent of instructor.

JUAD 4313. Alternative Dispute Resolution - Description and overview of methods of dispute
resolution, including litigation, arbitration, negotiation, and mediation, in order to demonstrate
their interrelationship and use in the American legal system.

JUAD 4360. Practicum - Supervised field experience in community agencies with an emphasis on integration of theory and practice.