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  • CJU 201: Ethics in Criminal Justice

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course will explore ethical issues in the criminal justice system. The course begins with an analysis of morality, the notion of right/wrong, and the pursuit of justice. Ethical issues that impact law enforcement, courts, and corrections are specifically examined. Strategies for ethical decision making are evaluated.
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  • CJU 205: Crime Scene Investigation

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    Criminal investigation is both a science and an art. This course will explore various techniques, principles, theories and problems of crime scene investigations. It will provide the student with a solid foundation of the legal/practical applications of crime scene investigation; from prior to arrival through the laboratory analysis through a legally sound prosecution. Topics to include: crime scene search procedures, handling physical evidence, rules of evidence, crime scene management, investigative resource management, controlled substance recognition and processing, and many more related topics. Specific information relative to individual crimes will also be covered.
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  • CJU 215: Cyber Crime

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course is designed to explore computer forensics and cyber crime. The advent of computer technology and the information age has not only credited great opportunities for our society, but for the criminal element as well. For the offender, the computer offers a "safe haven", with the crimes often perpetrated at home or work, without direct face to face contact with the victim. Specific areas to be covered include: computer terminology and history, specific crimes perpetrated with computers, legal issues relating to computer crime, computer forensics, and investigations.
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  • CJU 218: Introduction to Security and Terrorism Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    The course introduces the student to terrorism in the contemporary world and the strategic challenges it poses for global and U.S. security. Among some of the key issues explored are terrorism's causes, terrorist ideology, types of terror groups and their strategic goals and practices. The course analyzes regional terrorist groups and examines the development of U.S. and international counter terror policy. It concludes by examining how different states have responded to terror organizations and how successful these strategies have been.
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  • CJU 233: Introduction to Law Enforcement

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course is designed to examine contemporary law enforcement in the United States. The course explores the origin and history of law enforcement, duties and responsibilities of various agencies, and contemporary issues that confront the police. Specific areas to be covered included: the impact of the Constitution upon policing, service provision, community policing, use of force, pursuits, civil liability, and the relationship law enforcement shares with other Criminal Justice System components.
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  • CJU 235: Police Patrol Operations

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course will explore basic police patrol operations and procedures covering both routine and emergency situations. Areas to be covered include: response to calls; preliminary investigations; police ethics; search and seizure; field interviews and interrogations; report writing and testifying in court. Practical field exercises are also included.
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  • CJU 238: Police Personnel Management&Supervision

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    The student will explore basic management techniques including contemporary approaches focusing on situations and decisions unique to police supervisory needs. The course will also cover the history and philosophy of management. The student will be exposed to problem identification, decision making and management by objectives. Topics will include management skills such as organizational communication, labor relations, budgeting, employee motivation and conflict resolution.
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  • CJU 242: Police-Community Relations

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    The relationship between the police and the community is a reciprocal one. This course will explore the role of the department as well as the individual officer in maintaining adequate public trust and support. Methods by which the community can help to maximize the police function will be developed and analyzed. Human relations, public information and relationships with violators and complainants will be covered. Other topics include communication, press relations, stress, politics,culture and conflict resolution.
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  • CJU 243: Intro. to the Correctional System

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    The course will explore the history of punishment and corrections along with the development of modern corrections. The juvenile correctional system will be explored. Probation, parole and community based correction programs will be studied. The student will study trends indicating the future course of corrections.
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  • CJU 245: Crime & Criminology

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course is designed to provide an overview of the issue of crime in society, beginning with various conceptions of crime and how it is viewed by society and the legal community. A variety of theories of general crime causation will be covered, emphasizing contemporary views in the biological, psychological, and sociological schools of thought, as well as integrated views. Also covered will be causal theories related to specific crimes, societal reactions to crime and criminals and the role of the victim in crime.
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