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Undergraduate Diploma

Courses Offered in JUVENILE JUSTICE

The following courses are available for your Undergraduate 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 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

  • Introduction to Juvenile Delinquency

  • This course examines the nature, trends, remedies, and explanations for juvenile delinquency. You will be introduced to basic terminology relating to juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system.

  • 6 Credits

  • Current Issues in Juvenile Justice

  • This course presents the evolution, philosophy, structures, processes and current issues of the juvenile justice system; it surveys the rights of juveniles, dispositional alternatives, rehabilitation methods and current trends.

  • 6 Credits

  • Juvenile Justice in America

  • The course is an analysis of the social administration of juvenile justice within the United States. Particular emphasis will be placed on the decision-making process on police, courts, and probation officials regarding apprehension and processing of juveniles in the United States.

  • 6 Credits

  • Computer Crime

  • This course covers the computer crime issues. In this course, you will be exposed to the concepts of basic computer hardware and software violations, as well as the role of social networking sites and peer to peer networking environments in criminal mischief.

  • 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.

Introduction to Juvenile Delinquency

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adolescence and delinquency
    The measurement and nature of delinquency
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Individual causes of delinquency
    Social structural causes of delinquency
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Social process theories of delinquency
    Social interactionist theories of delinquency
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gender and delinquency
    The family and delinquency
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The school and delinquency
    Gangs and delinquency
    Drugs and delinquency
    Prevention, diversion, and treatment
    The juvenile justice process

Current Issues in Juvenile Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Children in trouble -2000 b.c. to the twentieth century-.
    The twentieth century and juvenile justice.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile crime: measurement and analysis.
    The juvenile justice process.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Juveniles and the police: where the system starts.
    The juvenile court.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile's legal rights.
    Juvenile probationcheaper or better?
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile institutions: the success of failure.
    Juvenile parole: useful or harmful?
    Group homes, foster care, and adoption.
    Juvenile justice assessment and classification.
    Dealing with delinquency theories, issues, and practice.

Juvenile Justice in America

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile justice: an overview
    
    Causes of juvenile crime
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The police
    The juvenile court
    Juvenile trial and disposition
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Juveniles in adult court
    Juvenile probation
    Community-based programs
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile institutionalization and aftercare
    Treatment technologies
    Juvenile gangs
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Drugs and youthful offending
    Gender, race/ethnicity, and class
    International juvenile justice
    Juvenile justice in the twenty-first century

Computer Crime

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    Computer terminology and history.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    History of crime and computer crime.
    Computers as targets.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Avenues for prosecution and government efforts.
    Applying the first amendment to computer-related crime.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The fourth amendment.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Computer forensic terminology and computer investigations.
    Developing computer forensic science capabilities.
    Computer investigations: pre-search activities.
    On-scene activities.
    Data analysis.
    Conclusions and future issues.

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