Courses
Criminal Justice
Check back on December 15th for Summer 2010 courses.
Metropolitan College
Policing the Urban Milieu
MET CJ 251
Examines the policies, strategies, procedures, and mechanics of policing in the environment of the 21st century American urban polity. The police function, duties, and responsibilities are surveyed, explicated, and critically analyzed through the prism of successful and innovative strategies that have won praise and commendation as well as through institutional and individual failures that have resulted in criticism and condemnation. 4 cr.
Courts, Society and Criminal Procedure
MET CJ 352
Prereq: MET CJ 351 or consent of instructor. Federal, state, and local criminal courts and their relationship to contemporary social and political issues. Historical background of the current criminal court system. Institutional functions of the courts. Role of the courts in reducing crime. Judicial process and criminal procedure, case studies and court decisions. 4 cr.
Special Topics: The Female Offender
MET CJ 510
Explores a variety of issues unique to the female offender population. Emphasizes the factors contributing to the unprecedented levels of the incarceration of women and the criminal justice response to this phenomenon. 4 cr.
Special Topics: American Prison
MET CJ 610
Through the use of film, literature, social science texts and class lectures, the course provides an intensive focus on one of contemporary society’s most significant institutions—the American Prison System. The course begins with an identification of the basic structures of the prison system. Focus then turns to developing an understanding of the operational processes that occur within these prison structures. Next, the intended and unintended functions or goals of imprisonment are evaluated. Finally, the effects of the prison institution on various sub-populations within American society (including inmates, inmate families, and prison staff) and the outside community in general is examined. 4 cr.
Forensic Behavioral Analysis
MET CJ 725
Examines the development of individual criminality and criminal careers, social group processes implicated in criminal activity, varieties of criminal behavior including violent, sexual and predatory crime, mental disorders, psychopathy, victimization, offender profiling, and forensic criminal investigation. Also explores the contribution of psychology to our contemporary understanding of crime and criminogenic behavior through the application of psychological theories in the investigation of crime. 4 cr.
