Leadership and management strategies for criminal justice agencies during critical incidents and disasters including multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional response.

The collection and use of information and data-driven analysis in criminal justice organizations.

Examination of issues affecting prisons and the inmates confined within them. Specific topics of study will include the philosophy and goals of imprisonment, institutional crowding, inmate rights, inmate adaptation, and individual and collective misconduct.

Application of skills and theories of adolescent mentoring taught in the classroom to a supervised, structured mentoring field experience.

Experiential Learning: Experiential Learning Opportunity

Impact of gender-based relations on crime and the criminal justice system.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Development of criminal and delinquent behavior over time.

An historical overview of the intersection between issues of race, crime, and justice. The impact of the criminal justice system on minority groups.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy

Origins and modern day activity of organized crime in the United States and internationally will be investigated. Attention is given to problems of criminal activity and the present day transnational character of criminal organizations.

Overview of the history and evolution of the death penalty. Identification of key legal developments in death penalty jurisprudence.

Legal and policy responses to crime and criminal justice issues.

Computing, database systems, and software applications in research and professional practice.

A seminar for advanced students. Individual topics to be announced by title. May be repeated once with the consent of the advisor.

Classical and recent literature in criminal justice. Trends and issues that transcend criminal justice.

Examination of law as an instrument of criminal justice policy, social control, and the protection of civil liberties.

Scientific methods in criminal justice research to include methods of design, data collection, and interpretation of research findings.

Descriptive and inferential statistics and the use of computers in criminal justice.

Historical and contemporary role of the police, societal expectations, resource allocation, police policies, and the effectiveness of various police strategies in controlling crime.

Classic and contemporary theories of ethics and their applications to criminal justice decision-making.

Historical development, structure, and organization of the federal and state criminal court systems and review of the factors that influence criminal case processing.

Historical development of corrections, trends, and changes in the field of corrections and rehabilitation.

The major theories of the etiology of criminal behavior, including biological, environmental, and other causative factors.

Historical and contemporary role of the juvenile justice system, evolution of juvenile justice policies, and evaluation of juvenile justice processes and interventions.

Examination of the relationship between crime and place, ecological perspectives in criminology, and the spatial distribution of crime.

The role of gender in explaining crime, criminal justice system processing, and punishment.

The role of race in explaining crime, criminal justice system processing, and punishment.

Causes of, consequences of, and responses to violence and victimization.

Seminar for advanced students. Topics of current importance, such as drugs, judicial reform, or crime prevention. May be repeated for credit up to 6 semester hours with consent of advisor.

Independent study for advanced students, under faculty supervision. May be repeated for credit up to 6 semester hours.

Placement in a criminal justice agency under faculty supervision.

Review of strategies and skills necessary for a successful career after completion of a doctoral degree in criminology and criminal justice.

The study of the legal and policy-making processes as they apply to criminology and criminal justice, Examines the interrelationships between law, crime, and public policy and the research methodologies appropriate for the study of crime-related policies.

A detailed treatment of the general linear model and logistic regression analysis with applications in criminology and criminal justice.

Intensive coverage of the logic and practice of research design and measurement issues commonly encountered in criminology and criminal justice research. Emphasizes the use of experimental research designs as the preferred methodology for making causal inferences.

Review of applied quantitative methodological literature in criminology and criminal justice. Topics can include analysis of count data, data from randomized field experiments, interrupted time-series studies, longitudinal studies, regression discontinuity studies, instrumental variable estimation, treatment probability matching estimators, statistical power analysis, and study planning.

Examination of the qualitative research paradigm and its contribution to social inquiry, including the collection, organization, and analysis of qualitative date. Collection and analytic strategies involve interviewing, observation, and textual analysis.

Advanced coverage of theoretical and developments and empirical research in criminology, with a focus on definitive statements from important theoretical traditions, empirical tests of criminological theories, and the translation of theory into policy.

Dissertation Preparation.