CRJ 3500 Critical Issues in Criminal Justice

(formerly CRJ 350; CRJ 250)

Writing-Intensive Course

This course will survey critical contemporary “due process” concerns. It will introduce the student to the discourse and debate in criminal justice scholarship on the polemics of gender discrimination, racial inequality, abrogation of the rights of the accused and the rights of victims, capital punishment, the insanity defense and the merits of incarceration, probation and parole and their alternatives. The student will become familiar with criminal justice texts, journals, periodicals and resources and learn how to access and research these critical issues in criminal justice.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Junior or Senior Status and CRJ 2800 and CRJ 2810

Distribution

Criminal Justice & Legal Studies

Offered

Fall, Spring