Criminal Justice Course Outcomes

CJ 100   Course Description:  CJ 100 introduces students to the functional components of the U.S. Criminal Justice System, including law enforcement, the court system and corrections.

Learning Outcomes:  Students will be able to define and explain the role of police, courts and confinement facilities in modern society and discuss the need for criminal justice.

This course will encourage the following:

1. Students will identify constitutional restrictions placed on law enforcement.
2. Students will recognize the organizational structure of police agencies and define terms used in the process of justice, the court system and related agencies.
3. Students will be able to identify trends in modern policing and methods applicable to improving the criminal justice system.
4. Students will define his/her educational and employment objectives.

CJ 101   Course Description: This course will examine the theoretical approaches to the causes, treatment and prevention of crime.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the basic parameters regarding crime, criminals and society's response to criminal behavior
2. Students will demonstrate the ability to compare theories of criminology.
3. Students will exhibit knowledge of the intricacies of addressing victim and perpetrator behavior and the assignment of blame and or responsibility.
4. Students will analyze the influence of individual values, beliefs and experiences on the larger society's approach to crime and criminal behavior.
5. Students will develop an understanding of the disparity of justice by gender and race and multicultural aspects of the criminal justice system.

CJ 110  Course Description:  CJ110 Surveys the roles and responsibilities of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in American society.

 Learning Outcomes:  Students will gain a better understanding of the problems and challenges faced by law enforcement agencies in America today.

1. Students will be able to identify the foundations which have helped shape modern law enforcement.
2. Students will recognize the organizational structures of modern police agencies.
3. Students will understand what new strategies are currently being employed by modern law enforcement agencies.
4. Students will also become aware of innovations which have changed how police services are delivered to the public.

CJ 220  Course Description: Examines the basic concepts of substantive law and criminal law. Explores effects of the laws through topics in crimes against persons, crimes involving property, crimes against the state and crimes against the public order.  Notes on posted on Blackboard and are only available before a class and then removed after the class meeting.

  Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will be able to distinguish what is a crime and what is social deviance.
2. Students will be able to describe the various elements of person and property crimes including homicide, theft, vice, public order, drugs, conspiracy and sexual based offenses.
3. Students will be able to describe the defenses to crimes and each of those requirements.
4. Students will compare Model Penal Code to Oregon Statues.
5. Students will gain a basic understanding of criminal liability and the essence of crime.

CJ 222    Course Description:  CJ 222 is the study of the procedural aspects of criminal law.  Emphasis is based on the gaining of criminal evidence based on search and seizure and its application to the laws of arrest, interrogation and warrants.

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