CRM 697 Special Topics and Issues in Criminal Justice.   1- 3 credits

Prerequisite:  permission of the instructor.   A variable topic course examining issues of crime, its causes, as well as social and political responses to crime by various institutions including government, media, law enforcement, the courts, and corrections.   May be repeated for a total of 6 credit hours if the topic changes.

CRM 706 Advanced Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice.  3 credits.

This course is an in-depth examination of issues and methods involved with gathering data for research in crime and justice.  Topics include research design, measurement, sampling, and analysis techniques.

CRM 707 Quantitative Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice.  3 credits.

Prerequisite: CRM 606 or permission of instructor.  This course provides an introduction to statistical analysis and examines the many applications of statistics to research on crime and justice.  Special attention is given to organizing and interpreting data through appropriate statistical software.

CRM 710 Justice Administration.  3 credits.

This course analyzes the criminal justice system in the United States emphasizing the role of criminal law, police, courts, and corrections as parts of the societal response to crime.   Significant attention is given to contemporary issues facing each component of the system and implications for agency administration.

CRM 720 Crime Theory and Policy.  3 credits.

Prerequisite:  CRM 320 or equivalent, or admission to the M.S. in Criminology, or permission of the instructor.   This course surveys various classical and contemporary theories of lawbreaking from a community-level sociological perspective.  The relationship between criminological theory to justice system policy is emphasized.

CRM 725 Evaluating Criminal Justice Policy and Practice.  3 credits.

Prerequisite: CRM 606 or permission of instructor.  Covers methodological and technical approaches used to evaluate programs in criminal justice.  Included are ethnographic techniques, unobtrusive research, secondary data sources, survey methods, and field experiments.  Students acquire proficiency in understanding questions being posed about programs, and developing appropriate research designs and strategies for providing answers to these questions.   Emphasis is placed on graphic, text and oral presentation of reports.

CRM 735 Historical and Cross-Cultural Comparative Criminology.  3 credits.

Provides an overview of crime and punishment with emphasis on the origin and evaluation of basic theories of crime-causation and community response as they arose in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Coupled with this emphasis is a cross-cultural comparative view involving the systematic study of crime, law, and social control outside the United States.

CRM 740 Foundations of Homeland Defense and Security.  3 credits.

This course provides an overview of homeland security and defense undertaken in the United States since September 11, 2001.  The course provides students with the generally accepted knowledge required of homeland security professionals.

CRM 745 Topics in Homeland Defense and Security.  3 credits.

Prerequisite: CRM 640 or permission of instructor.  A comprehensive and integrated homeland security and defense strategy must also include the full range of elected officials, first responders, the human, animal and plant health communities, business and our citizens.  In this course we will examine the application, progress and problems of the development and implementation of a homeland security/defesne strategy.

CRM 750 Law Enforcement and Community.  3 credits.

Using a sociological perspective, this course addresses concerns and issues facing law enforcement agencies within a community context.  Administrative implications of these subjects also will be addressed.

CRM 770 Correctional Theory and Practice.  3 credits.

This course examines social control responses to lawbreakers including the exploration of classical and contemporary theories and philosophies that have guided American correctional policy--both institutional and community based.   Management implications related to policy are addressed.

CRM 790 Graduate Practicum in Criminology.  1 - 6 credits.

Prerequisite:  Completion of 24 hours toward the M.S. in Criminology.  Faculty supervised experience in a criminology-related agency.   Students are expected to work 45 hours in the agency for each credit hour.  The practicum includes academic reflection on work experiences at the agency.  May be repeated up to 6 hours. 

CRM 796 Directed Readings in Criminology.  1-6 credits.

Prerequisite:  Admission to the M.S. in Criminology, and permission of the instructor.   Faculty-supervised arranged program of readings for the individual student directed by a member of the department graduate faculty.  May be repeated to a maximum of six hours when the topic varies.

CRM 799 Thesis.  1-6 credits.

Independent research and study connected with preparation of a thesis.  May be repeated up to a maximum of 6 hours.