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CJ 400 - Critical Issues in Criminal Justice

Credits: 3

This course examines key issues related to law enforcement, the courts and corrections. A close examination of ethics in criminal justice, environmental crime, sex crimes, cyber crimes, terrorism, white-collar crime will be focused on throughout. Students will also come to examine the complexities of race, culture, class and gender as part of the larger context in which to explore these issues.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

  • Identify and critically examine key issues related to crime and justice in the 21st century.
  • Explain how issues are constructed from a historical, social and political perspective.
  • Discuss the ways in which the criminal justice system responds to key issues.
  • Examine the importance of ethics in the study of issues related to criminal justice.
  • Examine, analyze and present solutions to key critical issues in criminal justice. 



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