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Graduate Diploma

Courses Offered in CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The following courses are available for your Graduate Diploma. 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 Criminal Justice Statistics

  • Crime statistics provide a statistical measure of the level, or amount, of crime that is prevalent in societies. This course provides you with a deep understanding of statistical methods that would help them analyze the situations in different criminal acts.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Criminal Justice

  • The course provides an introduction to the criminal justice system. In this course, you will examine the policies and practices of law enforcement. The topics of this course include the role of the criminal justice system in social control, courts and corrections, and criminal justice reform.

  • 6 Credits

  • Victimology

  • There are two actors within a criminal act - the perpetrator and the victim - and the victim is often forgotten. This course takes a critical view of the victim's relationship with the perpetrator and the criminal justice system, and the media's and society's varied reactions to victims.

  • 6 Credits

  • Special Topics in Criminal Justice

  • Special topics in Criminal Justice explores various responses to crime, and victims, from informal to formal legislative measures of social control and crime prevention, and examines the way in which the criminal justice system works - from policing through to imprisonment.

  • 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 Criminal Justice Statistics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Why the social researcher uses statistics.
    Organizing the data.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measures of central tendency.
    Measures of variability.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Probability and the normal curve.
    Samples and populations.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Testing differences between means.
    Analysis of variance.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Nonparametric tests of significance.
    Correlation.
    Regression analysis.
    Nonparametric measures of correlation.

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
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  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    
    
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  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
    
    
    

Victimology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction and history of victimology.
    Measurement of crime and its effects.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The criminal justice system and victims.
    The civil justice system and victims.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The consequences of victimization.
    Empowering victims.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Homicide victims.
    Females as victims.
    Spouses as victims.
    Child victims.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Elderly victims.
    Hate crimes.
    Special victim populations.
    International victimology
    Negligence and intentional torts.
    Third party liability and insurance.
    Constitutional and civil rights of victims.
    Compensation and restitution of victims.

Special Topics in Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Crime and justice in america.
    The substantive criminal law.
    The law of criminal procedure and the rights of the criminally accused.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The nature and distribution of crime and its victims.
    Police operations.
    Issues and trends in policing.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The dynamics of the criminal court.
    Pretrial procedures: bail, pretrial hearings, and plea bargaining.
    The criminal trial.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sentencing, appeals, and the death penalty.
    Jails and detention.
    Correctional institutions.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Probation, parole, and community corrections.
    Juvenile justice.
    Drugs, crime, and the criminal justice system.

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