CJUS 4000. Topics in Criminal Justice. (1-6) (1-6G) Prerequisite: consent of the department. Specialized criminal justice topics. May be repeated for credit. (Fall, Spring)

CJUS 4101. Drugs, Crime and the Criminal Justice System. (3) (3G) Use of drugs and their relationship to crime including the impact of drugs on the individual and the criminal justice system. (Fall, Spring)

CJUS 4103. International Criminal Justice. (3) (3G) Prerequisite: junior standing. Examination of the criminal justice systems of the United States and other nations. (Spring)

CJUS 5103. Program Planning and Evaluation in Criminal Justice. (3) (3G) Prerequisite: junior standing and consent of the department. Applied research as the foundation for criminal justice planning; distinctions between basic and applied research. Emphasis on the theoretical bases of planning in general and on criminal justice planning in particular. Evaluation as it relates to criminal justice programs to assist the student in predicting the success or failure of a project or program. (Alternate years)

CJUS 5131. Police Problems and Practices. (3) (3G) Prerequisite: junior standing and consent of the department. Role and function of police on the operational level. Discretionary decision making and the legal, social and institutional contexts in which it occurs. Police problems and practices are examined in the context of interpersonal and intrapersonal theories. (Alternate years)

CJUS 6000. Topics in Criminal Justice. (3-6G) Special issues; may be repeated for credit. (Alternate years)

CJUS 6100. The Criminal Justice System. (3G) Major subsystems of the criminal justice system including law enforcement, criminal courts, correctional agencies, and the juvenile offender subsystem. Linkage of these subsystems to each other and to the community and society at large. (Fall)

CJUS 6101. The Nature and Theory of Crime. (3G) Definitions and patterns of criminal behavior. Major theoretical perspectives on crime, including historical, philosophical, individual, community-oriented and societal approaches. (Fall)

CJUS 6102. Research in Criminal Justice. (3G) Research methodology and statistics with emphasis on applications to criminal justice settings. (Spring)

CJUS 6104. Criminal Justice and Social Control. (3G) Ethical issues of social control and criminal justice responses to such issues. Examination and critiques of assumptions underlying systems of social control, especially as they relate to the application of criminal sanctions to such issues as drug addiction and alcoholism. (Spring)

CJUS 6120. Criminal Justice Management and Decision-Making. (3G) Application of generic principles of management and supervision to operational problems confronted by criminal justice agencies with particular attention to decision-making and discretion in criminal justice settings. (Fall)

CJUS 6130. Law Enforcement Systems. (3G) Consideration of the elements of law enforcement agencies as subsystems of the total criminal justice system. Attention is given to the relationship between the law enforcement subsystems and the community. (Alternate years)

CJUS 6132. Legal Issues in Law Enforcement. (3G) Law applicable to the functions of the police administrator and line police officers including constitutional, statutory, judicial, and administrative law governing search and seizure, arrest, interrogation, use of force, jurisdiction, civil and criminal liability of administrators and officers, and the rights of officers and suspects. (Fall)

CJUS 6140. Prosecution and Adjudication Processes. (3G) Functions and powers of prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and juries including plea bargaining and court procedure. (Alternate years)

CJUS 6150. Corrections. (3G) Functions of correctional agencies, principles of punishment and a historical analysis of correctional institutions and programs including prisons, jails, probation and parole systems. (Alternate years)

CJUS 6151. Correctional Strategies: Rehabilitation and Reintegration. (3G) Efforts to change offender behavior and to facilitate the development of offender-community linkages. Institutional classification and treatment strategies, prerelease and temporary release programs, innovative uses of probation and parole systems, community residential programs and new dispositional models; e.g., sentencing to community service and restitution. (Alternate years)

CJUS 6152. Legal Issues in Corrections. (3G) Major legal issues pertaining to corrections, including sentencing, probation, restitution, prisons, parole, pardon and restoration of rights with emphasis on legal issues often confronted by correctional administrators and probation and parole personnel. (Alternate years)

CJUS 6160. Juvenile Justice Systems. (3G) The process by which specific behaviors are identified as delinquent and the responses of the juvenile justice system to such behaviors. Laws dealing with the juvenile justice system, the historical development of the system, and the effectiveness of innovative responses to delinquency. (Alternate years)

CJUS 6800. Directed Individual Study in Criminal Justice. (3G) Supervised investigation of a criminal justice problem of special interest to the student. May be repeated one time with the approval of the student's major professor or academic committee. (Fall, Spring)

CJUS 6900. Thesis. (6G) Independent research of a significant criminal justice topic approved by the student's academic committee. (Fall, Spring)