56:202:600 Research Methods in Criminal Justice (3) Foundation in research methods commonly used in criminal justice and the social sciences. Includes conceptualization, operationalization, research method and design, sampling approaches, data collection, analysis, and ethics in research. Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in research methods.
56:202:601 Data Analysis in Criminal Justice (3) This course provides students with a grounding in the basic tools used in quantitative analysis in the field of criminal justice along with an introduction to the statistical issues involved in the design and logic of research. Students learn to use various nonparametric measures of association as well as parametric tests of significance and are introduced to the fundamentals of correlation, regression, and hypothesis testing. Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in statistics.
56:202:500 Policy Analysis in Criminal Justice (3) A research- and writing-oriented seminar that will prepare students for conducting criminal justice policy analysis. Topics include the role of interest groups and organizational participants in the policy process, types of policies, and models of policy research. Examined are current criminal justice policies using analysis that considers the development, implementation, and evaluation of policy (i.e., what has occurred in policy, why, and at what benefits or costs). Also covered is policy formulation, which involves the development of new policy options to remedy public problems.
56:202:625 Survey Design (3) From Criminal Justice to Prevention Science, surveys are used across fields and institutional contexts to gain insights into constituents, stakeholders, customers, research subjects, or the broader public. In this applied, hands-on course, students will learn how to design and conduct surveys that yield useful insights. The course will include topics such as crafting effective survey questions, approaches to selecting survey respondents, tools to evaluate survey quality, how to design survey experiments, best practices in digital surveys, and strategies for preparing and overseeing large-scale survey implementations. The course will culminate in a final project involving the design, preparation, and pilot testing of an original survey.
56:202:574 Using Crime Data (3) The course introduces students to new ways to visualize, map, and explore spatial relationships in crime data. Students will review theoretical ideas of crime at local places, before reviewing both academic and professional reports using and displaying crime data to answer local policy questions. Students will develop their own research question to explore using mapping software.
19:910:502 Human Behavior and the Social Environment (3) Theories, themes, and issues concerning the ongoing interaction between people as they grow, change, and develop over the life course and the social context in which this occurs. Particular attention to assumptions about human behavior that may interfere with recognition of diversity in the ongoing interaction between individual, family, and group identity; social context; and social life. Highlights values and ethical issues related to biopsychosocial development.
56:834:503 Law and Public Policy (3) The place of law in the formulation, articulation, and enforcement of public policy; legal sources, such as constitutions, statutes, cases, administrative rulings, and agency practices; federal, state, and local sources and materials examined for policy inconsistencies, contradictions, and overlap; the effectiveness of fees, taxes, licenses, labeling, injunctions, and other legal sanctions.
19:910:504 Social Welfare Policy and Services (3) History, philosophy, and development of social welfare as an essential institution in the United States. Study of the emergence and role of social work, understanding of patterns of current provision, and introduction to analysis of social welfare policies. (Note: only one social work class may be counted toward the master of arts degree in criminal justice.)
56:834:505 Organizational Behavior (3) Examines organizational behavior of individuals and group/teams and the organizational context in which that behavior takes place. Organization theories as well as behavior theories and approaches discussed, including seminal historical works and more current treatments.
19:910:506 Diversity and Oppression (3) This diversity and oppression course will introduce a range of diverse populations by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and physical differences. Additionally, it examines the role, function, and effects of oppression in society as it relates to social and economic justice. Assumptions underlying theory and research methodologies from which basic constructs of human behavior are drawn will be examined to understand how power and other dynamics manage and sustain oppression at the individual and institutional levels. Also of interest is how oppression affects service delivery at micro and macro levels, particularly social policies and strategic planning, which drive the shape of services.
19:910:507 Psychopathology (3) Major forms of emotional distress in adults and children. Classification trends, issues, and models. Introduction to clinical syndromes in terms of diagnostic methodology, research, and social concerns and their implications for at-risk groups.
56:834:515 Introduction to Public Budgeting and Finance (3) Combines readings with the development of a budget for a hypothetical city to demonstrate budget formats, the politics of budgeting, and methods of projecting expenditures and revenues. Administration and criteria for selecting taxes.
56:202:522 Juvenile Justice (3) Juvenile offenders and the changing perception of juvenile crime. The legal status of juvenile offenders and the role of the family court in preventing delinquency.
56:202:529 Law and Society (3) Examination of laws and legal institutions and their interaction with society focusing on the issue of change. Law as a product of social change and law as a source of change are discussed. Topics include legal analysis, white-collar crime, and power and conflict.
19:920:538 Law and Social Work (3) Law in health and human services. Reading, using, and finding law. Law in practice in relation to law on the books. Topics include due process, equal protection, discrimination, confidentiality and duty to warn, child abuse, domestic violence, AIDS, sexual harassment, mental health, developmental disabilities, courtroom testimony, malpractice, and administrative liability.
56:834:553 Financial Management of Public Programs (3) Examines budgetary processes, municipal bonds, cash management, and intergovernmental fiscal relations as they apply to financial management of public programs. Topics include cost-benefit, cost-revenue, and cost-effectiveness analyses, as well as contemporary issues such as privatization and liability insurance. Prerequisite: 56:202:515.
56:834:557 Human Resource Management (3) The relationship between employers, employees, and their labor relations organizations in government, health and human services, and the nonprofit sector; leadership and direction of employees; impact of collective negotiations on critical issues of public policy; civil service organizations.
56:202:605 Gender, Crime, and Justice (3) Discussion of women as victims and criminal offenders, women in the criminal justice workforce, and emerging legal doctrines on gender rights are reviewed. The role of social constructs (gender, race, class, and sexuality) in criminal etiology and offending, criminal victimization, and crime processing is closely examined.
56:202:670,671,672 Independent Study Designed for students conducting independent research under the supervision of a sponsoring faculty member.
56:202:673,674 Special Topics in Criminal Justice (3,3) Courses may be offered under this general title, dealing with special topics intended to involve students in intensive study and investigation on topics related to crime and justice. Recent special topics include courses the following courses: Harm Reduction and the Opioid Crisis; Restorative Justice; Mass Incarceration, Reentry and Justice; Comparative Criminal Justice in the U.K. (study abroad); Green Criminology; White-Collar Crime; and Cannabis and Social Institutions.
56:202:800 Matriculation Continued (0) Continued registration may be accomplished by enrolling for at least 3 credits in standard course offerings or by enrolling in this course for 0 credits. Students who are using university facilities and faculty time are expected to enroll for the appropriate credits.