CRIM 5310 (POEC 5310) Research Design I (3 semester hours)
This course is the first in a two-course sequence devoted to the research
enterprise and the study of data development strategies and techniques to
facilitate effective statistical analysis. Topics generally covered include:
(1) issues and techniques in social science research with emphasis on
philosophy of science, theory testing, and hypothesis formulation; (2)
measurement and data collection strategies, reliability and validity of
measures and results, sampling, surveys; and (3) examination of qualitative
versus quantitative research techniques, working with observational data, field
research issues, and triangulation. (3-0) Y
CRIM 5313 (PA 5313, POEC 5313) Descriptive and Inferential Statistics for the
Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (3 semester hours).� This course is an introduction to data
analysis, statistics, and regression. The only prerequisite is a sound
foundation in algebra. The heart of the course is a rigorous introduction to
statistical inference: sampling theory, confidence intervals, and hypothesis
tests. The final section of the course covers regression analysis, which is
developed in a fairly non-technical way, with an emphasis on interpretation of
regression results, using examples from recent research. (3-0) Y
CRIM 5316 (POEC 5316) Advanced Regression Analysis for the Economic, Political
and Policy Sciences (3 semester hours).� This course provides a detailed examination
of the bivariate and multiple regression models
estimated using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), with an emphasis on using
regression models to test social and economic hypotheses. Also covered are
several special topics in regression analysis, including violations of OLS
assumptions, the use of dummy variables, fixed effects models, and path
analysis. Applications are demonstrated with examples drawn from criminology,
Economics, political science, public policy and sociology. (3-0) Y
CRIM 5355 (PA 5355 and POEC 5355) Introduction to Homeland Security (3 semester hours) This course provides a
comprehensive overview of the structure of Homeland Security, its origins and
developing trends and challenges. Selected material from Congress, FEMA,
Department of Justice, local, state, and other government and non-government
agencies will be studied. Examines both historical and
contemporary Homeland Defense and Security issues. (3-0) Y
CRIM 5356 (PA 5356 and POEC 5356) Pre-emptive Strategies and Tactics (3 semester hours) Provides a comprehensive
study of formulating pre-emptive strategies and tactics related to terrorist
attacks and certain man-made disasters, such as chemical plant explosions. This
course is a field-based application. Explores current published pre-emptive
strategies and tactics, means and methods for improving current plans and
explores new pre-emptive strategies and tactics driven by new intelligence
assessments. (3-0) Y
CRIM 5357 (PA 5357 and POEC 5357) Information Sharing and Communication (3 semester hours) Provides a comprehensive
overview of the structure of network, organizational and group information
sharing and communication. Focuses include new theories and applications to
information sharing and communication and intelligence gathering techniques of
state and local fusion centers. (3-0) Y
CRIM 5358 (PA 5358 and POEC 5358) Social Networks and Intelligence Led
Policing (3 semester hours)
Provides a comprehensive study of concepts and methods for adopting
intelligence as a foundation of law enforcement business operations for sound
decision-making. Exploiting social networks is a primary means for preventing
terrorism and crime. The course explores how intelligence-led policing depends
on creating strong community social networks to enhance policing of criminal
networks. (3-0) Y
CRIM 5359 (PA 5359 and POEC 5359) Protecting Critical Resources and
Infrastructure (3 semester hours)
Includes a comprehensive study of the current plans and policies in place for
protecting critical resources and infrastructure, both public and private. The
class will consist of a thorough review of the current literature pertaining to
critical infrastructure protection policies, methods, plans, and identify new
technology driven critical infrastructures. (3-0) Y��
CRIM 6300 Proseminar
in Criminology. (3 semester hours)� Introduction to graduate
study in criminology through exposure to issues surrounding concepts of crime,
criminals and societal response. Students learn to examine critically
the theoretical, methodological and policy issues in criminology and criminal
justice. (3-0) Y
CRIM 6303 (SOC 6303) Etiology of Crime
and Criminality. (3 semester hours)��
Examines the history of criminological thought
incorporating the major works of such theorists as Bentham, Beccaria,
Marx, Durkheim, Lombroso, Shaw and McKay, Sutherland, Becker, and Merton.
(3-0) Y
CRIM 6305 (SOC 6302) Law and Social
Control. (3 semester hours)��
Addresses the legal and theoretical basis of social control and the use
of criminal sanctions to deter and punish criminal conduct. Students will learn
to critically assess alternative punishment and sentencing models. (3-0) Y
CRIM 6307 (SOC 6301) Extent of Crime and
Measurement. (3 semester hours)�
Problems in Criminology.� Examines the major data
sources on crimes and criminals and the limitations of such data. Topics
also include measurement issues and problems concerning research on the nature
and extent of criminal behavior. (3-0) Y
CRIM 6308 (SOC 6308) Victimology
(3 semester hours) Examines risks and consequences of crime for its victims.
Issues considered include victim-offender relationships, characteristics of
victims, the nature of the injuries they experience, and criminal justice
procedures that involve them. (3-0) R
CRIM 6309 (SOC 6309) Communities and Crime (3 semester hours) Examines
the trends and sources of crime and social disorder across communities. The
course emphasizes relationships among crime, fear of crime, neighborhood
change, neighborhood responses to crime, and public policies. (3-0) R
CRIM 6310 (SOC 6310) Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (3 semester hours)
Examines youth crime, child victimization, and juvenile justice.
Students learn the processes by which specific behaviors are identified as
delinquent, the historical evolution of juvenile justice, and current policies
and practices. (3-0) R
CRIM 6311 (SOC 6305) Crime and Justice
Policy. (3 semester hours)� An introduction to crime and the efforts to control crime through
public policy. (3-0) Y
CRIM 6313 (SOC 6313) Corrections (3 semester hours) Examines the
history, forms, and functions of correctional philosophies, institutions,
programs, and policies. Topics include the structure and functions of prisons
and jails, community corrections, intermediate sanctions, and the growth of
correctional control in modern society. (3-0) R
CRIM 6314 (SOC 6314) Policing (3 semester hours) Provides
historical, social and political analysis of the roles and functions of
policing in America. (3-0) R
CRIM 6315 Violent Crime (3 semester hours) Examines
the sources and patterns of violent offending across time and space. Topics
include conceptions and typologies of violent crimes and offenders,
victim-offender relationships, and efforts to predict and control violent
offending. (3-0) R
CRIM 6317 (SOC 6317) Courts (3 semester hours) Examines the
objectives, institutions and processes involved in the adjudication of
offenders. Topics address the structure and function of the judicial system and
principal court actors. (3-0) R
CRIM 6322 (SOC 6322) Crime Prevention (3 semester hours) Examines
situational, social, and legislative approaches to the prevention of crime and
delinquency. Emphasis on theories, protective factors,
implementation and consequences of these approaches. (3-0) R
CRIM 6324 (SOC 6324) Correlates of Crime
and Justice.� Examines
the nature of relationships among attributes and indices at the situational and
aggregate levels to various forms of crime and systems of justice. (3-0)
Y
CRIM 6332 GIS Applications in Criminology (3 semester hours)
Examines spatial distributions of crime, criminals, and criminal justice
interventions. Students conduct spatial analysis of point patterns and
area-based data in studies of the locations of crime events and rates,
offenders, police patrolling practices, judicial districts and community
corrections and how they relate to physical and social characteristics of
neighborhoods. (3-0) R
CRIM 6340 (SOC 5380) Qualitative Criminology (3 semester hours) Examines
ethnography and other qualitative approaches to studying crime, criminals, and
criminal justice, particularly participant observation and informant and
respondent interviewing. Topics include phenomenology, case study,
in-depth interviewing, ethnomethodology, conversation
analysis, historical methods, gaining access, sampling, data collection and
analysis, and legal and ethical concerns. (3-0) R
CRIM 6346 Qualitative Research Methods (3 semester hours) This course provides an overview of qualitative research in
the social sciences. Students will investigate the assumptions underlying
qualitative research approaches and critically assess the strengths and
weaknesses of such approaches. Possible topics may include participant
observation, ethnographic interviewing, ethnomethodology,
conversation analysis, case study, and the analysis of historical documents.
(3-0) T
CRIM 6348 Drugs and Crime (3 semester hours) This course provides
students with a survey of the historical context of the legislative initiatives
that have been attempted to combat the use of drugs, the relationship between
drug use/abuse and crime, and the public policy problems surrounding the
control of drugs. (3-0) R
CRIM 6V96 Master Thesis Research (3-6
semester hours).� Students conduct
masters level research project under the supervision of
faculty. (1-6) Y
CRIM 6V98 Analytical Writing Research (3-6
semester hours).� Students perform
independent research under the supervision of faculty. (1-6)
Y
CRIM 7300 Advances in Criminology
Theory. (3 semester hours)�
Examines contemporary criminological theories and the degree to which
research has provided empirical support for explanations of crime and
criminality. (3-0) Y
SOC 6312 Social-Economic Theories.
(3 semester hours)� A
critical analysis of theories of society and economy. These include class,
culture, solidarity, rational choice, transaction cost theory, principal agent
theory, ideology and hegemony, network theory, collective action, bureaucracy,
and American exceptionalism. (3-0)
R
CRIM 7301 Seminar in Criminology
Research. (3 semester hours)��
Students plan and execute an independent research project. (3-0) R
CRIM 7302 Seminar in Criminology
Research (3 semester hours)� Continuation of CRIM 7301. (3-0) R
CRIM� 8V01 Independent Study (1-9 semester hours).� Provides
faculty supervision for student�s individual study of a topic agreed upon by
the student and the faculty supervisor. Prerequisite: Consent of
instructor.� (May be
repeated for credit.)� ([1-3]-0) R
CRIM� 8V99 Dissertation (1-9 semester hours).�
Provides faculty supervision of a student�s
dissertation research. Prerequisite:�
Consent of instructor. (May be repeated for credit.).
([1-9]-0) Y