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Eligibility Criteria

High school diploma, GED or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

18 Hours

Course Duration

2 Months (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

3

Courses Offered In UNDERGRADUATE CERTIFICATE

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • 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
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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: