Summer 2014
The summer semester is the perfect opportunity to focus on your major requirements. Many students use the summer session to complete criminal justice major requirements, experience an internship, achieve their general education requirements, start a minor or simply take a course in a new area of interest.
This summer, the School of Criminal Justice is offering more than a dozen course offerings to choose from. Start planning today; meet with your advisor to discuss your summer options.
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Course Descriptions
Criminology | 47:202:102 | 3 credits
Crime and criminal behavior, theories, and research. Addresses the causes of crime and crime rates. United States and international comparisons are provided.
Section: B3 | Index: 04968
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 3, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM
Instructor: Adubato
Introduction to Criminal Justice | 47:202:103 | 3 credits
Societal responses to people and organizations that violate criminal codes; police, courts, juries, prosecutors, defense, and correctional agencies. Includes the standards and methods used to respond to crime and criminal offenders; social pressures that enhance or impair the improvement of criminal laws; and the fair administration of criminal justice.
Section: B7 | Index: 02212
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 13, 2014
Section Times: Tuesday and Thursday | 6:00 PM to 9:45 PM
Instructor: Barnaby
Corrections | 47:202:204 | 3 credits
Examines and analyzes the major types of custodial and community‐based criminal corrections in contemporary America. Discusses purposes of corrections, correctional organization, impact of corrections, and contemporary issues facing the field.
Section: H7 | Index: 04970
Section Dates: July 7, 2014 – August 13, 2014
Section Times: Tuesday and Thursday | 6:00 PM to 9:45 PM
Instructor: Sentner
Criminal Justice Research Methods | 47:202:301 | 4 credits
Develops rudimentary tools needed for conducting research and writing reports and scholarly papers in criminal justice.
Section: B1 | Index: 02289
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 3, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 8:15 AM to 10:00 AM
Instructor: Sentner
Data Analysis in Criminal Justice | 47:202:302 | 4 credits
Examines the various types of data used within criminal justice and the fundamentals of statistics and analysis. Provides an analysis of the appropriate use of data, the limits of various methods, how data is collected, and how to interpret findings. Policy implications of data will also be discussed. (Prerequisite: 47:202:301 and the basic undergraduate math requirement.)
Section: H6 | Index: 02213
Section Dates: July 7, 2014 – August 13, 2014
Section Times: Tuesday and Thursday | 6:00 PM to 9:45 PM
Instructor: Jacobsen
Case Processing: The Law and the Courts | 47:202:310 | 3 credits
The criminal laws and judicial opinions that influence the policies, procedures, personnel, and clients of the criminal justice system in New Jersey; the origin, development, and continuing changes in criminal law, administration of criminal justice, and the state’s criminal courts.
Section: B2 | Index: 02214
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 3, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Instructor: Livingston
Violent Crime | 47:202:324 | 3 credits
Provides an in‐depth analysis of the relationship between violence and criminal behavior. Assesses the theoretical bases of violence by looking at anthropological, biological, and sociological explanations. Looks at violence within the context of individual, group, and societal behavior.
Section: H3 | Index: 04971
Section Dates: July 7, 2014 – August 13, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM
Instructor: Adubato
Delinquency and Juvenile Justice | 47:202:332 | 3 credits
Explores the causes and rates of delinquent behavior. Looks at the nature and operation of the juvenile justice system. Provides international comparisons.
Section: B6 | Index: 04972
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 3, 2014
Section Times: Monday and Wednesday | 6:00 PM to 9:45 PM
Instructor: Chowdhury
Juvenile Gangs and Co‐Offending | 47:202:332 | 3 credits
This course explores juvenile street gangs, when they exist, when they are illusory, public reactions to them. It also considers co‐offending by juveniles who are not necessarily gang members. The course considers what membership in a gang means and when gangs are cohesive or not. It examines variations among juvenile street gangs, and contrasts these with other groups of co‐offenders that are sometimes called “gangs.”
Section: H1 | Index: 04977
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 3, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 8.15 am to 10.00 am
Instructor: Cantara
Race and Crime | 47:202:333 | 3 credits
This course examines explores how race is related to offending, victimization, and various interactions with the criminal justice system. The course considers how race is defined, as well as racial differences in patterns and trends. The course critically examines explanations of these racial differences.
Section: B3 | Index: 04978
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 3, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM
Instructor: Livingston
Contemporary Policing | 47:202:342Q | Writing Intensive | 3 credits
Critical law enforcement problems, including organized crime, alcohol, drugs, policing of civil and natural disturbances, and the diffusion and multiplicity of police agencies; crime reporting, assessment difficulties, and the public reaction; the administrative problems of staffing, supervision, employee morale and militancy, and public charges.
Section: HQ | Index: 02215
Section Dates: July 7, 2014 – August 13, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Instructor: Hsu
White‐collar Crime | 47:202:343Q | Writing Intensive | 3 credits
Crimes organized by persons whose economic, political, and privileged positions facilitate the commission; relative impunity of unusual crimes that are often national and international in scope and that have serious, long‐term consequences.
Section: BQ | Index: 02572
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 3, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 6:00 PM to 9:45 PM
Instructor: Zaatut
Crime in Different Cultures | 47:202:344Q | Writing Intensive | 3 credits
Anthropological approach to crime as a pattern of social behavior. Crime and punishment in other societies, especially non‐Western societies that lack institutional systems of criminal justice; the social evolution of crime and crime‐related institutions in U.S. history; anthropological studies of people and organizations on both sides of the crime problem.
Section: HQ | Index: 03382
Section Dates: July 7, 2014 – August 13, 2014
Section Times: Monday and Wednesday | 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Instructor: Hsu
Topics in Criminal Justice | 47:202:407 | 3 credits Section:
Discipline and Punishment
B2 | Index: 04979
Section Dates: May 27, 2014 – July 13, 2014
Section Times: Monday through Thursday | 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Instructor: Staff
Topics in Criminal Justice | 47:202:407 | 3 credits
Youth and School Violence
Section: H6 | Index: 03383
Section Dates: July 7,2014 – August 13, 2014
Section Times: Monday and Wednesday | 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Instructor: Daly