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Criminal Justice (CJ)

University of Louisville
Louisville , United States
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Criminal Justice (CJ)

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  • CJ 500. Crime and Criminal Justice in Film
    • 3 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Senior standing
    • Description: Examines media representations of the criminal justice system within a historical context and global perspective, highlighting the congruence and disparities between popular film and reality.
  • CJ 505. International Terrorism
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
    • Description: Explores international terrorism and terrorist organizations, including their causes, operations, funding, and future threats. Covers biological, chemical, nuclear, and cyber terrorism, as well as the media's influence on terrorism and counter-terrorism efforts.
  • CJ 507. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Introduces Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). Emphasizes opportunity theories of crime and their application, and explores strategies for preventing crime by modifying the built environment.
  • CJ 509. Crime Analysis
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Covers introductory techniques of crime analysis and mapping, focusing on applying theoretical concepts to crime data.
  • CJ 510. Managing Conflict, Change, and Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
    • Description: Explores the interpersonal and social aspects of conflict and essential practices for conflict resolution. Analyzes human dynamics in conflicts, emphasizing the significance of conflict management in building relationships and promoting equity, fairness, and peace.
  • CJ 516. Seminar in Juvenile Justice Issues
    • 3 Units
    • Description: An interdisciplinary seminar examining conflicting perspectives within the juvenile justice system and related issues. Topics include an overview of the juvenile justice system, treatment and prevention programs, unique laws affecting juveniles, and other pertinent themes.
  • CJ 517. Gangs in the United States
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Examines gangs, including their history, definitions, and the criminal justice system's response. Covers theories of gang involvement, current trends, and prevention and intervention strategies, offering an overview of the complexities of gang activity and its impact on communities and criminal justice policy.
  • CJ 519. Domestic and Family Violence
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Explores the dynamics of family violence, focusing on intimate partner violence, child maltreatment, and abuse of older adults across diverse family structures and life stages.
  • CJ 520. Capital Punishment - WR
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
    • Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or consent of instructor
    • Description: Explores issues related to the death penalty, including constitutional questions, the impact of death row incarceration, and public attitudes, with a special focus on research findings from Kentucky.
  • CJ 521. Corporate and Financial Crime - WR
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
    • Prerequisite(s): CJ 200 and CJ 305, or consent of instructor
    • Description: Explores corporate and financial crime, focusing on key concepts, theoretical explanations, and the extent and nature of these offenses across various sectors, including both public and private organizations.
  • CJ 522. Serial and Mass Murder
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
    • Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or consent of instructor
    • Description: Examines serial and mass murder in the United States, focusing on the relationship between these crimes and factors such as race, gender, media portrayal, and behavioral analysis. Explores the impact of mass murder on communities, including political and religious ideologies, affected institutions, and the responses from law enforcement, community members, and policymakers.
  • CJ 523. Race and Gender in Criminal Justice - WR
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
    • Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or consent of faculty
    • Description: Examines the dynamics of racial discrimination and disparity in the United States and their impact on the criminal justice system.
  • CJ 530. Introduction to Homeland Security
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
    • Description: Outlines the philosophy, purpose, and rationale for a dedicated government agency focused on domestic security. Explores issues related to international and domestic terrorism and their effects on homeland security trends.
  • CJ 576. Managing Organizational Performance
    • 3 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Consent of department chair
    • Description: Examination of factors affecting the management of organizational performance. Designed to help participants develop conceptual diagnostic and problem-solving skills required of strategic managers in contemporary law enforcement organizations.
  • CJ 577. Trauma Informed Policing
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
    • Prerequisite(s): Restricted to students enrolled in the Southern Police Institute's Administrative Officers Course
    • Description: Trauma informed policing focuses on how law enforcement can improve police community interactions, service to the public, and internal operations through adopting a trauma informed approach. This course will discuss evidence-based methods to recognize, understand, and appropriately respond to trauma experienced by victims, offenders, and police officers.
  • CJ 578. Criminal Justice Leadership - WR
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Through the use of lectures and case studies (films), participants will be provided with a cognitive understanding of leadership that emphasizes the study of leadership models and theories. Study and evaluation of various leadership styles and processes.
  • CJ 580. International Service Learning: Criminal Justice Seminar
    • 3 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Approval of program director
    • Description: Study of criminology and criminal justice with a cross-cultural perspective. Comparative criminal justice research regarding particular problems and issues in the host country will be conducted and examined.
  • CJ 596. Seminar in Criminal Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    • Description: Explores selected topics in Criminal Justice.
  • CJ 597. Ethics in Criminal Justice - WR
    • 3 Units
    • Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
    • Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or consent of instructor
    • Description: Studies ethics and ethical decision-making in the criminal justice system.
  • CJ 602. Criminal Justice History
    • 3 Units
    • Description: A study of the historical development of criminal justice agencies in the United States. The origin and influence of various European concepts of criminal justice and how they relate to past and present ideas in the United States.
  • CJ 605. Police and Society
    • 3 Units
    • Description: An examination of the police function as a component of the political system in the United States. The manner in which police give substance to the political system and are formed by it in turn. The interaction of the police with other governmental institutions in the political system.
  • CJ 606. Personnel Management in the Criminal Justice System
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Focus is on contemporary personnel management problems confronting agencies in the criminal justice system. Both the historical and the theoretical developments of personnel management are analyzed. Alternatives to current management procedures and systems are presented.
  • CJ 607. Seminar in Law and Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Study of the premises, theories and research in the study of the relationship between law, society and justice. Emphasis is on the classics as well as selected modern and contemporary research.
  • CJ 609. Economic Analysis of Crime
    • 3 Units
    • Description: A study of the economic scope of crime. The role of illegal gambling, loan sharking, labor racketeering, and legitimate business infiltration. The cost of crimes against property. The economic characteristic of high crime jurisdictions. Preventive programs and their costs.
  • CJ 610. Theoretical Foundation of Corrections
    • 3 Units
    • Description: A study of the psychological, sociological, political, and economic factors which contributed to the concept of corrections. The evolution of correctional thought and its role in contemporary and future reforms.
  • CJ 611. Critical Issues in Corrections
    • 3 Units
    • Description: In-depth examination of contemporary issues in sentencing and corrections in our society. Particular emphasis will be given to best practices: recent policies and programs that have been developed to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of sentencing and corrections within our society.
  • CJ 612. Criminal Justice Administration: Police
    • 3 Units
    • Description: An examination of the functions of police in society; principles of law enforcement organizations, administration, policy formulation, and management of personnel; statutory limitations on authority and jurisdiction.
  • CJ 613. Advanced Comparative Criminal Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Description: In-depth examination of international legal systems and their related criminal justice systems including analysis of patterns of international crime and global criminal justice issues.
  • CJ 614. Seminar in Policing
    • 3 Units
    • Description: In-depth examination of contemporary issues facing police in our society. Particular emphasis will be given to police innovation: recent policies and programs that have been developed to enhance the police function of crime prevention (societal protection) and community relations (service).
  • CJ 621. The Criminal Justice System
    • 3 Units
    • Description: A study of the criminal justice system in the United States. A systems approach to the study of criminal justice and the interrelationships of the various components of the system. Social and political issues related to the criminal justice system are examined in depth.
  • CJ 625. Legal Aspects of Criminal Justice Management
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Examination of the legal issues within criminal justice management, the effects of constitutional provisions, statutes, ordinances, and judicial decisions on justice administration. A discussion of the legal aspects of selection, promotion, assignment, and termination of justice employees.
  • CJ 626. Emergency Management
    • 3 Units
    • Description: This course is an overview of emergency management in the United States and will focus on the four phases of the emergency management process: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
  • CJ 627. Computer and Cyber Crime
    • 3 Units
    • Description: This course examines advanced legal, policy and technical issues of computer, digital and electronic crime, including issues with digital & computational forensics, information security and privacy. Class participation, writing and oral presentations will be integral components of the course.
  • CJ 630. Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience
    • 3 Units
    • Description: This course will address U.S. key infrastructures and assets, potential threats to these, their major vulnerabilities, methods used to assess these vulnerabilities and current U.S. policy pertaining to infrastructure and asset protection.
  • CJ 643. Theories of Crime and Delinquency
    • 3 Units
    • Description: A study of the psychological and sociological factors involved in criminal and delinquent behavior. The relationship of theory to the prevention and control of crime, treatment of offenders and administration of respective criminal justice agencies.
  • CJ 644. Seminar in Juvenile Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Theoretical and empirical study of the etiology, distribution and extent of delinquency; problems involved in measuring delinquency; role of the police, courts and legal statutes; critical examination of treatment and prevention programs.
  • CJ 649. Applied Statistics in Criminal Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Focuses on the use of statistical techniques in criminal justice. Emphasis on the application and interpretation of the statistics. Utilization of statistical application computer systems.
  • CJ 650. Research Methods
    • 3 Units
    • Description: The application of quantitative and qualitative analyses in criminal justice research. The concepts of validity, hypothesis, reliability, measurement, sampling, quasi-experimental construction, errors in reasoning, and statistics and approaches to the problems of the conduct of stringent and useful research.
  • CJ 652. Constitutional Issues in Criminal Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): CJ 625 or instructor consent
    • Description: An in-depth study of the US Constitution and US Supreme Court including history, structure and application of Constitutional rights and privileges.
  • CJ 653. Communities and Crime
    • 3 Units
    • Description: This course explores community-level theory and research within criminology. We will trace the development of community-level criminological theory and research from the work of Shaw and McKay to the work of contemporary scholars. Our tracing of this development will involve exploration of theoretical and methodological issues such as: the conceptualization and measurement of social disorganization, structural versus cultural effects in community models, social versus physical environmental effects, the role of community disorder in community crime models, the role of fear in community crime models, macro-level interactions within community-level models of crime, and use of theoretical integration and multi-level models in community crime research.
  • CJ 655. International Perspectives on Violence
    • 3 Units
    • Description: The course will discuss violence as a global phenomenon and will attempt to determine what is universal and what varies when cross-cultural comparisons of violent criminal behavior are made. In addition, the course will focus on the effects of globalization on the criminal justice field and will discuss important issues related to international crime, international law, and international law enforcement.
  • CJ 656. Crime Mapping
    • 3 Units
    • Description: This course will investigate theories, concepts, principles, and tools involved in better understanding crime incidents and crime patterns. Included will be weekly lab work following step-by-step tutorials that will provide students with a working knowledge of mapping software. Analyzing and interpreting a high-frequency Louisville crime problem and identifying police-based crime prevention techniques from the literature will be the subject of a final research project.
  • CJ 665. Special Topics in Justice and Criminology
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Study of contemporary issues concerning the philosophy, management, and operations of criminal justice agencies.
  • CJ 670. Directed Studies/Readings
    • 3 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Consent of chair and instructor
    • Description: Independent study or research project under the direction of a member of the faculty.
  • CJ 690. Practicum
    • 1-6 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Consent of chair
    • Description: To practice and to conduct research in a criminal justice or supporting agency under both professional and academic supervisors.
  • CJ 698. Professional Paper - WR
    • 3 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Consent of chair
    • Description: The professional paper should reflect substantial research (of secondary sources) that analyzes a policy or problem in the criminal justice system. The paper must review existing literature (journal articles and reports) and demonstrate a thorough subject analysis. The paper will be reviewed by the assigned faculty member, revised by the student, and reflect graduate-level analysis.
  • CJ 699. Thesis
    • 1-6 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Consent of chair
  • CJ 703. Criminal Justice System Planning
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Overview of planning theory, techniques and strategies within the criminal justice system.
  • CJ 740. Seminar in Crime Prevention and Social Control
    • 3 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
    • Description: Study of the history, theory and practice of crime prevention and social control.
  • CJ 745. Advanced Criminal Behavior
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Advanced study of various theoretical perspectives in the study of crime, criminal behavior and criminal justice.
  • CJ 748. Seminar in Criminal Justice Program Planning & Evaluation
    • 3 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Restricted to doctoral students
    • Description: This course features: an introduction to the theory and practice of criminal justice planning, their strengths and weaknesses, the application of social scientific research methods to determine the effectiveness of criminal justice programs, analysis of reports of evaluative research and the preparation and analysis of evaluation research reports.
  • CJ 749. Advanced Statistical Analysis in Criminal Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Description: In-depth analysis of logic and uses of advanced research methods. Emphasis will be given to the use of quantitative research techniques, fundamentals, and perspectives of modern statistical techniques used in criminal justice research.
  • CJ 750. Field Research in Criminal Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Development of expertise in understanding, planning, conducting and evaluating qualitative research methodologies. Special attention will be given to applying data collection and analysis techniques to social science investigations of crime and criminal justice processes.
  • CJ 751. Advanced Statistical Computer Applications for Criminal Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Description: The study of advanced statistical computer applications for research within criminal justice.
  • CJ 752. Advanced Research Methods in Criminal Justice
    • 3 Units
    • Description: Research methods used in the analysis of criminal justice research. Quantitative and qualitative techniques, experimental and quasi-experimental design, data sources in the public sector, the use of data bases in the development and implementation of criminal justice evaluation.
  • CJ 795. Criminal Justice Qualifying Project
    • 3-6 Units
    • Prerequisite(s): Completion of CJ PhD core curriculum; doctoral students only
    • Description: Analysis of qualitative or quantitative data set and production of a manuscript suitable for publication.
  • CJ 798. Mentored Research in Criminal Justice
    • 1-3 Units
    • Description: Independent research project conducted under the guidance of and in collaboration with a member of the Justice Administration research faculty.
  • CJ 799. Dissertation Research in Criminal Justice
    • 1-12 Units
    • Description: Dissertation research project under the direction of faculty committee.
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