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Eligibility Criteria

High School Diploma, GED or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

84 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

14

Courses Offered In ASSOCIATE TO BACHELORS DEGREE

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Introduction to Criminology

  • This course provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime and major factors in society's treatment of criminals.

  • 6 Credits

  • Sociology

  • Sociology is a comprehensive course that offers you a global perspective to help you better understand your own lives, provides strong focus on social diversity that allows you to see the impact of race, class, and gender, and focuses

  • 6 Credits

  • Corrections

  • This course examines corrections from an academic view and from those who are at the center of the system. It includes correctional history and theory, yet concentrates on what professionals do, why they do it, and the challenges they face every day.

  • 6 Credits

  • Issues in Criminal Justice

  • This course contextualizes current events within the criminal justice literature. Highlighting a variety of high-interest issues, it explains you how recent happenings relate to criminal justice studies.

  • 6 Credits

  • Criminal Procedures

  • This course explains the procedural aspects of the criminal justice system systematically, making the concepts easy to apply to any state’s specific procedural laws and procedures systematically.

  • 6 Credits

  • Investigation

  • This course presents crime detection as a dynamic field relying heavily on the past experiences of investigators as well as recent practical and technological innovations.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Laws

  • This course builds the procedural knowledge and real-world skills needed for today’s paralegal. It places an emphasis on profession and skills. Places an emphasis on basic foundations including: developing critical thinking and procedural skills; learning about technology applications in law office; and understanding how to handle ethical situations in workplace.

  • 6 Credits

  • Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

  • This course makes the comparative approach far more understandable and accessible, helping you recognize the growing importance of an international perspective. It organizes key concepts in a sequence that you will already find familiar; progressing from issues of law to the agencies of police, courts, and corrections.

  • 6 Credits

  • Research in Criminal Justice

  • This course provides an introduction to the basic methods, techniques, and procedures of social science research. Qualitative and quantitative methods, such as survey research, experiments, observational/field work, program evaluation, and interview approaches appropriate to the study of criminal justice are also examined.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Criminal Justice Statistics

  • Crime statistics provide a statistical measure of the level, or amount, of crime that is prevalent in societies. This course provides you with a deep understanding of statistical methods that would help them analyze the situations in different criminal acts.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Criminal Justice

  • The course provides an introduction to the criminal justice system. In this course, you will examine the policies and practices of law enforcement. The topics of this course include the role of the criminal justice system in social control, courts and corrections, and criminal justice reform.

  • 6 Credits

  • Victimology

  • There are two actors within a criminal act - the perpetrator and the victim - and the victim is often forgotten. This course takes a critical view of the victim's relationship with the perpetrator and the criminal justice system, and the media's and society's varied reactions to victims.

  • 6 Credits

  • Special Topics in Criminal Justice

  • Special topics in Criminal Justice explores various responses to crime, and victims, from informal to formal legislative measures of social control and crime prevention, and examines the way in which the criminal justice system works - from policing through to imprisonment.

  • 6 Credits

  • Ethics in Criminal Justice

  • This course explores examination of selected ethical issues and problems confronting criminal justice professionals. This course is meant to provide you with various dynamics of ethical behavior and also focuses on ethics in justice policy, administration, and research and the impact on individuals and society.

  • 6 Credits
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Introduction to criminology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Criminology and the sociological perspective.
    Public opinion, the news media, and the crime problem.
    The measurement and patterning of criminal behavior.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Victims and victimization.
    Explaining crime: emphasis on the individual.
    Sociological theories: emphasis on social structure.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sociological theories: emphasis on social process.
    Sociological theories: critical perspectives.
    Violent crime: homicide, assault, and robbery.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Violence against women and children.
    Property crime.
    White-collar and organized crime.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Political crime.
    Consensual crime.
    Policing: dilemmas of crime control in democratic society.
    Prosecution and punishment.
    Conclusion: how can we reduce crime?

Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The sociological perspective
    Sociological investigation
    Culture
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Society
    Socialization
    Social interaction in everyday life
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Groups and organizations
    Sexuality and society
    Deviance
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social stratification
    Social class in the united states
    Global stratification
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gender stratification
    Race and ethnicity
    Aging and the elderly
    The economy and work
    Politics and government
    Families
    Religion
    Education
    Health and medicine
    Population, urbanization, and the environment
    Collective behavior and social movements
    Social change: traditional, modern, and postmodern societies

Corrections

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    History of crime and punishment
    -- sentencing and the correctional process
    Jails
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Probation and intermediate sanctions
    - prisons
    Parole and prisoner reentry
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    - the clients of adult correctional agencies
    The juvenile correctional system
    Special offenders
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The management of prisons
    -- prison life for inmates
    The world of prison staff
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Custody and treatment
    - legal issues and the
    - issues in corrections
    Questions regarding the future of corrections

Issues in Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    Crimes against consumers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Unsafe products
    Environmental crime
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Institutional corruption: mass media and religion
    Securities fraud
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Corporate fraud
    Fiduciary fraud: crime in the banking, insurance, and pension fund industries
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Crimes by the government
    Corruption of public officials
    Medical crime
    Computer crime
    Conclusions

Criminal procedures

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Criminal procedures in perspective
    Fundamental concepts of law
    The exclusionary rule
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Police-citizen transactions: consensual encounters and detentions
    The laws and procedures of arrest
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Miranda: its meaning and application
    Booking and custody procedures
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The adversary system: roles of the prosecution and defense
    The court structure and pretrial procedures
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The trial procedures
    Defense strategies and trial outcomes
    Sentencing procedures and alternatives
    Post-sentencing procedure

Investigation

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Criminal investigation: an overview
    The preliminary investigation
    Field notes, documenting, reporting the crime scene
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Report writing documentation of the investigation
    Search seizure
    Identification of criminal suspects
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The criminal intelligence function
    Undercover surveillance operations
    Making an arrest
    Interviews interrogations
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Development management of informants
    Wrongful death
    Robbery
    Assault related offenses
    Sex offenses
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Child abuse neglect
    Burglary
    Larceny-theft
    Motor vehicle theft
    Arson bombings
    Drug offenses
    Money laundering computer-assisted crime
    Preparation for court

Introduction to laws

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The paralegal profession
    Ethics, regulation and professional responsibility
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The paralegal workplace
    Technology and the paralegal
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sources of american law
    The court system and adr
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Civil litigation
    Administrative law
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Interviewing and investigation skills
    Traditional, computer, and internet legal research
    Legal writing and critical legal thinking

Comparative criminal justice systems

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An international perspective
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Crime, transnational crime, and justice
    An american perspective on criminal law
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Legal traditions
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Substantive law and procedural law in the four legal traditions
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An international perspective on policing
    An international perspective on courts
    An international perspective on corrections
    An international perspective on juvenile justice
    Japan: examples of effectiveness and borrowing

Research in Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to criminal justice research methods: theory and method.
    Ethics in criminal justice research.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Research design: the experimental model and its variations.
    An introduction to alternative data-gathering strategies and the special case of uniform crime reports.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sampling and survey research: questionnaires.
    Survey research: interviews and telephone surveys.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Participant observation and case studies.
    Unobtrusive measures, secondary analysis, and the uses of official statistics.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Validity, reliability, and triangulated strategies.
    Scaling and index construction.
    Policy analysis and evaluation research

Introduction to Criminal Justice Statistics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Why the social researcher uses statistics.
    Organizing the data.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measures of central tendency.
    Measures of variability.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Probability and the normal curve.
    Samples and populations.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Testing differences between means.
    Analysis of variance.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Nonparametric tests of significance.
    Correlation.
    Regression analysis.
    Nonparametric measures of correlation.

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    
    
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
    
    
    

Victimology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction and history of victimology.
    Measurement of crime and its effects.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The criminal justice system and victims.
    The civil justice system and victims.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The consequences of victimization.
    Empowering victims.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Homicide victims.
    Females as victims.
    Spouses as victims.
    Child victims.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Elderly victims.
    Hate crimes.
    Special victim populations.
    International victimology
    Negligence and intentional torts.
    Third party liability and insurance.
    Constitutional and civil rights of victims.
    Compensation and restitution of victims.

Special Topics in Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Crime and justice in america.
    The substantive criminal law.
    The law of criminal procedure and the rights of the criminally accused.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The nature and distribution of crime and its victims.
    Police operations.
    Issues and trends in policing.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The dynamics of the criminal court.
    Pretrial procedures: bail, pretrial hearings, and plea bargaining.
    The criminal trial.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sentencing, appeals, and the death penalty.
    Jails and detention.
    Correctional institutions.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Probation, parole, and community corrections.
    Juvenile justice.
    Drugs, crime, and the criminal justice system.

Ethics in Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
    
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
    
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    
    
    
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
    
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics: