2007-2009 Catalog

Criminal Justice

Dorothy Donahoe Hall, C114

(661) 664-2433

(661) 654-2627 (fax)

email:  lmcquin@csub.edu

www.csub.edu/CriminalJustice/

Chair:        Robert Fong

Faculty:     R. Abu-Lughod, A. Flores, D. Hall, C. Taylor

Adjunct Faculty:      R. Barton, C. Caifano, Hon. C. Chung, Hon. C. Estes,

                                  A. Kohler, G. Laskowski, J. Martinez,

                                  Hon. R. Oberholzer, W. Rector, M. Williamson, D. Winett

Program Description

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice is designed to provide a student familiarity with the basic components of the American “system” of criminal justice. This American “system” of criminal justice is really many systems organized on both a state and federal level and includes law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and corrections functions.

Requirements for the Major in Criminal Justice

Prerequisites to the major:

1.   CRJU 100 Introduction to Criminal Justice

2.   CRJU 290 Success in Criminal Justice

3.   MATH 140 or PSYC 200

4.   PSYC 100 or SOC 100

Basic Core Courses:

1.   CRJU 300 Research Methods in Criminal Justice (Pre: CRJU 290)

2.   CRJU 310 Criminal Law

3.   CRJU 371 Theoretical Perspectives in Criminal Justice

4.   CRJU 490 Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice systems and areas courses:

1.   Required courses:

      a.   CRJU 376 Police Processes and Systems

      b.   CRJU 378 Court Processes and Systems

      c.   CRJU 379 Corrections Processes and Systems

2.   Select two of the following:

      a.   CRJU 380 Juvenile Justice Processes and Systems

      b.   CRJU 410 Issues, Values and Ethics in Criminal Justice

      c.   CRJU 420 Criminal Justice Policymaking

      d.   CRJU 430 Victims and the Criminal Justice System

3.   Special topics in Criminal Justice (select one from

      each of the following three themes)

      a.   Race and Gender in Criminal Justice

            1.   CRJU 325 Women and the Criminal Justice System

            2.   CRJU 330 Race, Ethnicity, and the Criminal Justice System

      b.   Youth, Crime and Violence

            1.   CRJU 340 Drugs and Crime

            2.   CRJU 345 Gangs in America

      c.   Forensic and Field Explorations

            1.   CRJU 480 Directed Research in Criminal Justice

            2.   CRJU 494 Profiling Violence

            3.   CRJU 495 Forensic Science

            4.   CRJU 496 Internship in Criminal Justice

            5.   CRJU 497 Cooperative Education

Minor, Concentration, and Special Minor

In addition to meeting the requirements for the major, the student must satisfactorily complete one of the three university required options listed below:

1.   A special minor consisting of at least 20 quarter units, 15 of which must be upper division, approved by the student’s advisor, taken outside the major discipline.

2.   A minor consisting of at least 20 quarter units within a minor program designed and approved by another discipline.

3.   An interdisciplinary concentration or minor in one of the specially developed areas such as Black Studies, Chicano Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women’s Studies.

Requirements for the Minor in Criminal Justice

Four courses, including CRJU 100, or an approved equivalent, and three upper division Criminal Justice courses, as approved by the Department of Criminal Justice.

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