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JLC-210 Policing in America: An Introductory Survey (3)
A survey of the history, development, environment, organization, and sociology of American law enforcement, with emphasis on state and local police agencies. Police as an agency of social control; police as a service agency; police as a part of government and of the justice system. Usually Offered: fall. Prerequisite: JLC-104 .
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JLC-211 Contemporary Issues in American Law Enforcement (3)
Policy formulation; operational procedures; patrol; performance measurement; women and minorities in policing; labor-management relations; corruption; political accountability; use of force; citizen complaints. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-215 Violence and Institutions FA4 (3)
The capacity for violence by agents of an institution acting in service of organizational goals. Through evaluation of case studies, students gain an understanding of the dynamics of institutional violence and its threat to human life. Includes hazardous workplaces, unethical experimentation, dangerous products, torture and terrorism, police and prison use of deadly force, and the death penalty. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-225 American Legal Culture FA2 (3)
The law has become one of the most important regulators in American culture. How did this happen? This course explores the transformation of American legal culture from the colonial era to the present, considering such issues as the challenges of crime, the Cold War and civil rights, the rise of the surveillance state, and images of law in popular culture. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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JLC-230 Corrections in America (3)
Survey of current correctional thought and practices in the United States and their evolution. Overview of correctional treatment in different kinds of institutions and in the community. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-245 Cities and Crime FA4 (3)
Urban areas face many significant challenges, of which crime is one of the most significant. Crime-plagued areas, though, do not occur in a vacuum. This course explores the factors correlated with crime with a focus on the modern American city, particularly Washington, DC. The course frames the issues using historical and theoretical perspectives to provide context for social scientific studies and policy work in this area. Students gain an appreciation for the complexity of addressing crime in urban areas as well as a solid foundation for advanced course work in criminology, sociology, and urban studies. AU Core Habits of Mind: Socio-Historical Inquiry. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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JLC-280 Introduction to Justice Research (3)
Social research methods as applied to justice research. The function and role of justice research and the nature and form of research designs, methods, and tools. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: JLC-104 and JLC-205 .
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JLC-281 Introduction to Legal Studies Research (3)
This course introduces a wide array of methodologies employed in legal studies related to the humanities and social sciences. It provides the knowledge and skills necessary to design, conduct, and present a scholarly research project. The research questions that motivate scholars in legal studies, as well as the different methods used to collect and analyze the evidence systematically and logically are discussed. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-294 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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JLC-296 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-302 Law and Social Theory (3)
An introduction to some of the seminal woks and issues involved in the creation of modern social science and the application of these ideas to law. Critical examination of the epistemological assumptions of these theories and whether human behavior and social relations are susceptible to rigorous scientific explanation. Usually Offered: fall. Prerequisite: JLC-110 and JLC-281 .
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JLC-308 Justice, Morality, and the Law (3)
Moral issues involved in administering justice in society, emphasizing the nature of human rights and the ideal of justice. Moral consequences of official control actions of lawmakers, justice system careerists, and others involved in the definition of crime and deprivation of liberty, stressing “moral offenses.” Prerequisite: JLC-110 .
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JLC-309 Justice and Public Policy (3)
Examines current basic national, state, and local policy issues that affect the definition of crime and shape public agency responses toward crime. The objective of the course is to sharpen and improve the student’s policy-oriented thinking about crime in a constitutional democracy and to develop a method to evaluate policy related to crime. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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JLC-310 The Legal Profession (3)
Analysis of the structure of the legal profession from U.S. and cross-cultural perspectives. Includes the structure and organization of the bar, the social hierarchy of the profession, ethical and moral issues faced by lawyers, the changing status of women and minorities in the profession, and access to legal services for the poor. Usually Offered: alternate falls.
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JLC-313 Organized Crime (3)
Organized crime in the United States; its effect on society and the need for integrated response by people, government, and business. Organized crime as a social subculture. Socioeconomic and political aspects of organized crime emphasizing internal controls and external relations with various political and economic sectors. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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JLC-315 White-Collar and Commercial Crime (3)
Economic and fiscal implications and enforcement problems. Fraudulent association, bankruptcy fraud, monopoly and coercive competitive practices, and illegal use of securities and credit cards. Problems of theoretical criminology presented by white-collar crime. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-332 Corrections and the Constitution (3)
Examination of the evolving relationship between correctional agencies and the U.S. Constitution. Landmark court decisions are reviewed within the framework of competing demands for fairness and crime control. Contemporary correctional issues and emerging innovations are presented and discussed in the context of cost, effectiveness, and constitutional guarantees and protections. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-333 Law, Psychology, and Justice (3)
Examines psycholegal research related to evidentiary issues in the criminal and civil justice process. Areas covered include accuracy of childhood testimony, eyewitness identification, judicial use of social science research, impact of nonadversarial versus adversarial expert testimony. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-342 Judicial Administration (3)
Major issues in criminal and civil justice systems, including detention, plea bargaining, pre-trial motions, collateral attack. Roles of prosecutor and defense counsel. Discovery and other instruments for narrowing issues and expediting litigation. Alternative methods of resolution, judicial management problems, fact-finding, and the jury system. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-343 Issues in Civil Justice (3)
This course examines the institutional arrangements that constitute our system of civil justice. It describes the various decisions that are made to transform a grievance between citizens into a matter that comes before civil courts as well as those procedures followed by the courts to resolve a matter. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-352 Psychiatry and the Law (3)
Basic psychiatric principles including contemporary views of causes, manifestations, patterns, and treatments of psychiatric and behavioral disorders; trends in the use of psychiatric resources to deal with deviant behavior within and without the criminal justice system. Includes incompetence as bar to trial, insanity as defense, civil commitment, drug addiction, alcoholism, psychiatry in processing and treating juvenile offenders, and rehabilitative efforts of the corrections system.
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JLC-368 Juvenile Delinquency: Causes, Prevention and Treatment (3)
Development of the individual through childhood and adolescence as it relates to delinquency and crime; special characteristics of juvenile criminality; current principles, policies, and practices for its prevention and control. Factors producing delinquency. Juvenile detention, juvenile court, training schools, and treatment of the offender. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-390 Independent Reading Course in Justice (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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JLC-391 Internship (1-6)
Internships with interest groups; congressional offices; and government agencies. Weekly seminar. Prerequisite: second semester sophomore standing and GOVT-210 , GOVT-321 , or PUAD-260 . Permission: department.
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JLC-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-401 Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Analysis (3)
Examines various clinical and theoretical explanations for different types of criminal behavior including an analysis of the violent offender, the psychopathic offender, and the white-collar offender. Readings and other case-study material of actual criminal offenders are examined in order to develop an understanding of the causes and treatment.
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JLC-402 Comparative Systems of Law and Justice (3)
A cross-cultural analysis of the role of law. Exploration of the administration of law and justice in various societies, from least developed to most developed. Special emphasis on comparative analysis of criminal justice systems, including policing, courts, and correctional systems. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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JLC-405 Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (3)
A comparative study of criminology and criminal justice systems as developed in the United States and elsewhere. Crosslist: JLC-605 . Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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JLC-410 Topics in Legal Theory (3)
Topics vary by section. Topics focus on the philosophical foundations of specific areas of law, such as the concepts of property, privacy, or rights, or on specific theoretical approaches to law, such as critical legal theory, critical race theory, or feminist legal theory. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisite: JLC-110 and JLC-201 .
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JLC-411 Topics in Legal History (3)
Topics vary by section. An introduction to the comparative study of legal history with a primary focus on the civil and common law traditions. Topics investigate the relational character of law in different settings and periods through diverse modes of historical and theoretical analysis. Usually Offered: fall. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisite: JLC-110 and JLC-201 .
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JLC-413 Topics in Law and Social Science (3)
Topics vary by section. Topics include various disciplinary perspectives of law such as politics of law, law and anthropology; and the social scientific approach to specific areas of law, such as punishment and society, and law, technology, and society. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisite: JLC-302 .
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JLC-417 Victimology (3)
Victims as an integral part of crime. Theories and research results on the victim role, criminal-victim relationships, concepts of responsibility, and society’s reaction to victimization. Sexual assault, child abuse, and victimization of the elderly. Crisis-intervention centers, court-related victim/witness services, restitution, and compensation. Crosslist: JLC-617 . Permission: instructor.
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JLC-420 Law and Society (3)
Contrasting law on the books with law in action, this course critiques law, including its genesis, popular understandings, applications, and effects. Using social science methods, it considers how people relate to law; what they think of it, how and when they use it, how it orders their lives, and where it is limited. Crosslist: JLC-620 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: JLC-101 .
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JLC-421 Justice in the Face of Terror (3)
Throughout history, society has grappled with the critical issues of constructing and maintaining a just society in the face of terror. This course studies issues of justice and responses to terror from the perspectives of history, ethics, literature, politics, and law, and works to evaluate the justice of societal responses. Crosslist: JLC-621 .
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JLC-422 Justice Workshop (1-6)
Topics vary by section. In-depth study of the philosophy, organizational structure, and operation of various institutions in the justice field, employing direct observation through on-site visits and discussions with officials, along with theoretical material. Rotating topics include insider’s view of justice, offenders in society, and judicial affairs mediation. Crosslist: JLC-622 . Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-426 Domestic Violence (3)
A survey of domestic violence; spouse, sibling, and elder abuse; and sexual or other violence among intimates in its broader context and from a multidisciplinary perspective. Policies, laws, court decisions, and short and long term intervention strategies are considered. Crosslist: JLC-626 . Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-431 The Prison Community (3)
Social organization in correctional institutions. Inquiry into the nature, organization, and aims of the penal system and its effect on groups it deals with. Interaction of groups within institutions. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-432 Concepts of Punishment (3)
This course examines the philosophical issues associated with criminal punishment, particularly the moral justification for punishment. Theories of punishment, who the state punishes, and how citizens are punished are also explored. Usually Offered: alternate springs. Prerequisite: JLC-110 and JLC-302 .
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JLC-435 Gender and the Law (3)
Gender and criminal, civil, and regulatory law. Criminal issues include sexual assault, prostitution, and the criminalization of pornography and sexual trafficking in women, and gender relations in the criminal justice system. Civil issues include marital and divorce laws and laws regarding reproduction. Other issues include sexual harassment and discrimination in housing, credit, insurance, employment, and education. Crosslist: JLC-635 . Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-436 Reproduction and the Law (3)
Students undertake a historical, legal, and policy-based analysis of the laws and policies regulating human reproduction, with an emphasis on Supreme Court jurisprudence and current legislative efforts to both expand and curtail reproductive rights. Crosslist: JLC-636 . Prerequisite: JLC-101 or SPA-220 .
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JLC-444 Topics in Criminal Justice (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics concerning criminal justice including the death penalty and the law, race and justice, and crime prevention. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisite: JLC-104 and JLC-280 .
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JLC-445 Topics in Criminology (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics concerning criminology including terrorism and international crime, women and crime, and gangs and gang violence. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisite: JLC-205 and JLC-280 .
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JLC-451 Drugs, Crime, and Public Policy (3)
Review of the history of drug abuse in America; the relationship between drug abuse and crime, including marijuana, heroin, and alcohol; national strategies to deal with drug abuse; improvement of policies in the future. Crosslist: JLC-651 . Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-454 Violence, Justice and the Law (3)
Emphasis on various ideologies and events that cause or reduce violence, such as social movements, depressions, war, and political repression.
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JLC-458 The Juvenile and the Law (3)
Special legal status of the juvenile. Protective services, incompetence to enter contracts, compulsory education, child labor laws, and in loco parentis actions by state and private institutions. Juvenile and family court movement, emphasizing noncriminal aspects of administering juvenile justice: guardianship, dependency, neglect, child support, paternity, and adoption. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-470 Causes of Terrorism and Political Violence (3)
This course introduces students to the study of terrorism as a political act. The course examines the difference between state and oppositional terror, but focuses on terror by non-state actors. The course discusses theories that explain why, how, and when the opposition uses terror tactics to pursue their goal. Crosslist: JLC-670 . Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-471 Evolution of Global Jihad (3)
This course examines the contours of the Sunni jihadist movement with the aim of understanding ideological as well as strategic and operational characteristics that define it. A heavy emphasis is placed on exploring the ideological and strategic debates within the movement, as well as national, regional, and international events that contribute to these debates. Crosslist: JLC-671 . Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-474 Domestic Terrorism and Political Violence (3)
This course investigates the causes and consequences of domestic terrorism and political violence. The course incorporates insights from psychology, political science, economics, history, and other disciplines to attempt to understand the motivation, goals, and propensity for violence of these groups and individuals. Crosslist: JLC-674 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-475 Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Practice (3)
This course examines terrorism and counterterrorism from an empirical perspective, with a heavy focus on case studies. Key topics include how terrorist groups organize themselves, risk factors for terrorism, terrorism as a political and military strategy, global terrorism and the impact of al-Qaeda, and various approaches to counterterrorism. Crosslist: JLC-675 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-477 Security Challenges in South Asia (3)
This course examines both conventional and unconventional security challenges in South Asia. Students learn about the multiple dimensions of external and external security for countries of the region as well as how security challenges manifest in terms of conventional conflict, insurgency, terrorism and organizational crime, and nuclear competition and proliferation. Crosslist: JLC-677 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-478 Investigating Terrorism (3)
Through the lens of U.S. federal law enforcement, this course provides an overview, discussion, and assessment of the legal, sociological, and policy constructs used by the United States to detect and investigate terrorism. Crosslist: JLC-678 . Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-479 Prosecution of Terrorism (3)
This course explores and assesses the myriad legal and policy issues related to trying suspected terrorists. Topics include possible charges, extradition, the use of secret evidence and protection of classified evidence, a comparison of the use of military tribunals with other U.S. federal courts, indefinite detention, and other emerging issues. Crosslist: JLC-679 . Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-482 Crime and Conflict Nexus (3)
This course looks at the relationship between criminals and terrorists by examining the nexus of terrorists and criminal networks, their commonalities, affinities, and disparities, along with implications for policy responses. Crosslist: JLC-682 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-483 Cyber Threats and Security (3)
This course examines the emerging threats to U.S. security caused by cyber activism. Special attention is paid to discussing appropriate policy responses to this nascent global problem. Crosslist: JLC-683 . Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-484 Intelligence Analysis (3)
This course analyzes the specific role of the intelligence analyst within the context of the intelligence cycle. It details the methods for taking information from various collection sources and synthesizing into a useful intelligence product. Crosslist: JLC-684 . Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-485 Topics in Terrorism (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics concerning terrorism and security policy, including theories of terrorism and extremist violence, prevention of terrorism, and homeland security policy. Crosslist: JLC-685 . Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-490 Independent Research in Justice/Law (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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JLC-491 Internship in a Justice/Legal Setting (1-6)
Provides students with actual experience in the administration of justice or law through assignment to enforcement, judicial, legal, or correctional agencies. Permission: instructor and department chair.
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JLC-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-096 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (0)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-601 Law and Social Sciences (3)
Historical and contemporary literature in law and the social sciences. Critical assessment of major research endeavors conducted by lawyers and social scientists, including plea bargaining, conflict resolution, the jury system, the legal profession, law and the mass media, and the function of law and public opinion in different societies.
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JLC-602 Legal Theory (3)
Introduction to the philosophical analysis of law and its role in society. The course considers questions such as what is law, how is it different from brute force, is there a moral obligation to obey the law, and what are the limits of legal responsibility. Classical, contemporary, and critical approaches, ranging from natural law theory to critical and feminist theory. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-603 The Rule of Law and Due Process (3)
A commitment to rule of law and due process of law is a defining feature of Western legal tradition, but what do these phrases mean? This course examines common interpretations and applications of these concepts in diverse systems of law. The central features and historical development of legal procedures in the criminal justice, civil justice, and administrative systems are compared. Legal procedure is an essential component of systems of jurisprudence and provides the methods and means for applying substantive law. It also reveals, inter alia, a legal system’s values, priorities, and applications. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-604 Foundations of Knowledge (3)
This methodology course helps students identify what actually counts as knowing something in their study of social phenomena. Social scientists, lawyers, and philosophers must grapple with the question of what counts as a fact that actually describes what they believe they are observing. Making this decision inevitably affects one’s understanding of what is being observed. This course examines the foundations of empirical, analytical, critical, and other modes of thought in order to enable them to evaluate the various methods used to study social institutions. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-605 Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (3)
A comparative study of criminology and criminal justice systems as developed in the United States and elsewhere. Crosslist: JLC-405 . Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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JLC-606 Legal History Seminar (3)
The two goals of this course are to provide students with the historical underpinnings of law in the Western world, and to introduce students to the different historic approaches that historians use to understand what counts as historic fact. Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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JLC-607 Concept of Justice (3)
Major philosophical contributions to the definition of justice. The relationship of the ideal of justice to concrete situations in which issues of justice (civil, criminal, or political) arise.
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JLC-608 The Constitution and Criminal Procedure (3)
Constitutional standards and operation of the criminal justice system. Police practices, bail, decision to prosecute, scope of prosecution, grand jury proceedings, preliminary hearings, right to counsel, right to speedy trial, plea bargaining, discovery and disclosure, jury trial, trial by newspaper, double jeopardy, and post-trial proceedings. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-609 Criminological Theory (3)
Examines criminological theory including early religious and spiritual notions of crime, and classical, rational choice, and deterrence theories. The development of positivism from both a biosocial and psychological perspective, the range of sociological theories and the empirical research related to these theories. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-610 Justice and Public Policy: Controversial Issues (3)
The American justice systems and the theories underlying them. Focus is on the criminal justice process and issues related to each step and institution in it. Includes varieties of law and justice, issues dealing with the police, courts, and corrections. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-615 Law and Human Rights (3)
Legal, moral, and historical examination of international human rights. Friction among the values of national sovereignty, individual rights, self-determination, and the toleration of minorities is considered, as well as legal and extra-legal methods for humanitarian intervention, from World Court indictments to military invasion.
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JLC-617 Victimology (3)
Victims as an integral part of crime. Theories and research results on the victim role, criminal-victim relationships, concepts of responsibility, and society’s reaction to victimization. Sexual assault, child abuse, and victimization of the elderly. Crisis-intervention centers, court-related victim/witness services, restitution, and compensation. Crosslist: JLC-417 . Permission: instructor.
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JLC-620 Law and Society (3)
Contrasting law on the books with law in action, this course critiques law, including its genesis, popular understandings, applications, and effects. Using social science methods, it considers how people relate to law; what they think of it, how and when they use it, how it orders their lives, and where it is limited. Crosslist: JLC-420 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-621 Justice in the Face of Terror (3)
Throughout history, society has grappled with the critical issues of constructing and maintaining a just society in the face of terror. This course studies issues of justice and responses to terror from the perspectives of history, ethics, literature, politics, and law, and works to evaluate the justice of societal responses. Crosslist: JLC-421 .
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JLC-622 Justice Workshop (1-6)
Topics vary by section. In-depth study of the philosophy, organizational structure, and operation of various institutions in the justice field, employing direct observation through on-site visits and discussions with officials, along with theoretical material. Rotating topics include insider’s view of justice, offenders in society, and judicial affairs mediation. Crosslist: JLC-422 . Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-626 Domestic Violence (3)
A survey of domestic violence; spouse, sibling, and elder abuse; and sexual or other violence among intimates in its broader context and from a multidisciplinary perspective. Policies, laws, court decisions, and short and long term intervention strategies are considered. Crosslist: JLC-426 .
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JLC-630 Advanced Seminar in Legal Theory (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics in law and social theory, including freedom of speech and religion; liberty and private property; feminist legal theory; critical legal studies; and law and economics; among others, are examined. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-631 Advanced Seminar in Social and Political Theory (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics in concepts of sovereignty; power, equality, and welfare; legitimacy, obligation and democratic theory; among others, are examined. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-635 Gender and the Law (3)
Gender and criminal, civil, and regulatory law. Criminal issues include sexual assault, prostitution, and the criminalization of pornography and sexual trafficking in women, and gender relations in the criminal justice system. Civil issues include marital and divorce laws and laws regarding reproduction. Other issues include sexual harassment and discrimination in housing, credit, insurance, employment, and education. Crosslist: JLC-435 . Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-636 Reproduction and the Law (3)
Students undertake a historical, legal, and policy-based analysis of the laws and policies regulating human reproduction, with an emphasis on Supreme Court jurisprudence and current legislative efforts to both expand and curtail reproductive rights. Crosslist: JLC-436 .
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JLC-638 Race and Justice in America (3)
This course examines issues of justice in America rough a racial lens. Analyzing the nexus between contemporary race and justice issues and their historical origins, the course explores historical topics such as slavery, Jim Crow, the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and desegregation. The roles of federal legislation, judicial decisions, and executive authority in shaping the way race is framed and perceived in America within the context of the judicial system is also examined. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-643 Advanced Seminar in Policing (3)
Topics vary by section. An examination of major U.S. police and law enforcement systems and issues. The focus of the course may be either the role of police in society, police-community relations, and special problems in policing, or management and policy issues such as police organization, federalism, police effectiveness, police discretion and use of force, and police accountability. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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JLC-648 Law and Religion (3)
Examines the intersection of religion with American law, politics, and society. The course focuses on the role of religion in the constitutions, statutes, and policies of federal and state governments, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions defining church-state law. Also examines the experiences and contributions of minority religious sects and politico-religious movements in American life.
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JLC-650 Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective (3)
This course examines the development of law and its justification as the source of authority in the modern state. Students examine how the law itself and different conceptions of it have been used to control and legitimize law governed behavior. Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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JLC-651 Drugs, Crime, and Public Policy (3)
Review of the history of drug abuse in America; the relationship between drug abuse and crime, including marijuana, heroin, and alcohol; national strategies to deal with drug abuse; improvement of policies in the future. Crosslist: JLC-451 . Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-670 Causes of Terrorism and Political Violence (3)
This course introduces students to the study of terrorism as a political act. The course examines the difference between state and oppositional terror, but focuses on terror by non-state actors. The course discusses theories that explain why, how, and when the opposition uses terror tactics to pursue their goal. Crosslist: JLC-470 . Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-671 Evolution of Global Jihad (3)
This course examines the contours of the Sunni jihadist movement with the aim of understanding ideological as well as strategic and operational characteristics that define it. A heavy emphasis is placed on exploring the ideological and strategic debates within the movement, as well as national, regional, and international events that contribute to these debates. Crosslist: JLC-471 . Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-672 Terrorism, Crime, and Public Policy (3)
This course examines the problem of terrorism and its causes, to provide a basis for preventing it. It includes distinctions among types of terrorism, crime and aggression, their causes, and implications for prevention; Huntington’s clash of civilization model; cross-cultural dialog and exchange; the management of fear; the applicability of crime prevention strategies to the problem of terrorism; the role of religion, the reshaping of military and intelligence strategies; use of technology for diction and prevention; and the management of errors in balancing security and rights. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-673 Seminar on National Security Policy (3)
This course provides students with a foundation for understanding how policies related to contemporary security issues are made and executed. The focus is primarily on terrorism and insurgency, but examined through various lenses. The course is weighted heavily toward providing exposure to as many facets of policy making and implementation as possible, rather than interrogating any one security issue. Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-674 Domestic Terrorism and Political Violence (3)
This course investigates the causes and consequences of domestic terrorism and political violence. The course incorporates insights from psychology, political science, economics, history, and other disciplines to attempt to understand the motivation, goals, and propensity for violence of these groups and individuals. Crosslist: JLC-474 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-675 Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Practice (3)
This course examines terrorism and counterterrorism from an empirical perspective, with a heavy focus on case studies. Key topics include how terrorist groups organize themselves, risk factors for terrorism, terrorism as a political and military strategy, global terrorism and the impact of al-Qaeda, and various approaches to counterterrorism. Crosslist: JLC-475 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-676 Theories of Punishment (3)
Examination of the philosophical issues associated with criminal punishment, particularly theories of the moral justification for punishment. The course considers retributive, deterrent, incapacitation, and moral reform theories, the role of victim and community anger in the imposition of punishment, as well as alternatives such as restorative justice. Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-677 Security Challenges in South Asia (3)
This course examines both conventional and unconventional security challenges in South Asia. Students learn about the multiple dimensions of external and internal security for countries of the region as well as how security challenges manifest in terms of conventional conflict, insurgency, terrorism and organizational crime, and nuclear competition and proliferation. Crosslist: JLC-477 . Usually Offered: spring.
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JLC-678 Investigating Terrorism (3)
Through the lens of U.S. federal law enforcement, this course provides an overview, discussion, and assessment of the legal, sociological, and policy constructs used by the United States to detect and investigate terrorism. Crosslist: JLC-478 . Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-679 Prosecution of Terrorism (3)
This course explores and assesses the myriad legal and policy issues related to trying suspected terrorists. Topics include possible charges, extradition, the use of secret evidence and protection of classified evidence, a comparison of the use of military tribunals with other U.S. federal courts, indefinite detention, and other emerging issues. Crosslist: JLC-479 . Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-680 Introduction to Justice Research I (3)
The logic of scientific inquiry and the nature and process of social research as applied to justice. Theory, concepts, practices, and the demonstration of their reliability and validity. Attention is also given to methods of sampling design and techniques of data collection. Usually Offered: fall.
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JLC-681 Introduction to Justice Research II (3)
Methods of data analysis applicable to research in the justice field. Building on the concepts presented in JLC-680 , the course examines the link between research design and empirical analysis, the role of probability in hypothesis testing, and the concept and techniques of descriptive and inferential statistics. Usually Offered: spring. Prerequisite: JLC-680 .
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JLC-682 Crime and Conflict Nexus (3)
This course looks at the relationship between criminals and terrorists by examining the nexus of terrorists and criminal networks, their commonalities, affinities, and disparities, along with implications for policy responses. Crosslist: JLC-482 . Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-683 Cyber Threats and Security (3)
This course examines the emerging threats to U.S. security caused by cyber activism. Special attention is paid to discussing appropriate policy responses to this nascent global problem. Crosslist: JLC-483 . Grading: A-F only.
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JLC-684 Intelligence Analysis (3)
This course analyzes the specific role of the intelligence analyst within the context of the intelligence cycle. It details the methods for taking information from various collection sources and synthesizing into a useful intelligence product. Crosslist: JLC-484 . Grading: A-F only.
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