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Graduate Certificate

Courses Offered in JUVENILE JUSTICE

The following courses are available for your Graduate Certificate. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Research in Criminal Justice

  • This course provides an introduction to the basic methods, techniques, and procedures of social science research. Qualitative and quantitative methods, such as survey research, experiments, observational/field work, program evaluation, and interview approaches appropriate to the study of criminal justice are also examined.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Juvenile Justice

  • This course is based on the origin, philosophy, and development of the juvenile justice system, particularly the juvenile court. Emphasis in this course is placed upon laws, detention, adjudication, probation, after-care, foster homes, and other alternative correctional practices.

  • 6 Credits

Research in Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to criminal justice research methods: theory and method.
    Ethics in criminal justice research.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Research design: the experimental model and its variations.
    An introduction to alternative data-gathering strategies and the special case of uniform crime reports.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sampling and survey research: questionnaires.
    Survey research: interviews and telephone surveys.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Participant observation and case studies.
    Unobtrusive measures, secondary analysis, and the uses of official statistics.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Validity, reliability, and triangulated strategies.
    Scaling and index construction.
    Policy analysis and evaluation research

Introduction to Juvenile Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An introduction to juvenile justice.
    History of juvenile justice.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Causes of delinquency.
    Juvenile gangs.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Abused and neglected juveniles.
    Police and juveniles.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile courts.
    Juvenile court procedures.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile case law.
    Transfers and wavers.
    Juvenile probation.
    Juvenile parole.
    Group home programs.
    Shock incarceration.
    The future of juvenile courts.
    Directions for change.

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