CJC 4610 | Hal Nees

Current Problems Criminal Justice Administration

CJC 4610

This course is instructed online once a year and in the class once a year. I will not be teaching it in 2003, in the classroom.

Fall, 2002

Course Syllabus - to get the current syllabus click on the below and the syllabus will be downloaded to your computer in Rich Text Format, and you should be able to open the syllabus in any word processing program. Contact me if this does not work with your computer.

Fall 2002 Syllabus

Week	Topics
1 8-19-02	Crime and Justice in the U.S., Review of the Criminal Justice System. Assignments
2 8-26-02	Operation of the Criminal Justice System, Law Enforcement, District Attorney, Courts, Corrections Politics of the system The Criminal Justice System as a system and how it works, fails to work and how do we change it? Assignments
3 9-2-02	Problem Analysis and Solution Identification Looking to the future Assignments
4 9-9-02	Future Issues in the Criminal Justice System Assignments
5 9-16-02	Community and the justice system Assignments No class on September 17, 2002
6 9-23-02	Restorative Justice What it is and how it works Community in the Justice System Community Capacity building Facing the problems Questions for the Mid-Term Assignments Victimology What is happening nationally and in Colorado Past and present involvement of victims in the justice system Domestic Abuse Victim Services What type of services exist throughout the justice system. The successes and failures of the programs. Assignments Readings due: Jason Garner and Lisa Santry - Readings due to class.
7 9-30-02	Personnel Issues, Personnel Law, Contracts, Processes, Discipline, Hiring Assignments Readings Due: Ryan Jones, Readings due for class.
8 10-7-02	October 8, 2002 - Jason Garner - Recidivism, leniency, rehabilitation and programs that don't work. October 10, 2002 - Lisa Santry - Laboratory Work and Technological changes. Readings Due: Lynn Tumey and Rich Grace - Readings due to class.
9 10-14-02	Mid Term Due No class October 17, 2002 October 15, 2002 - Ryan Jones, Ethics.
10 10-21-02	October 22, 2002 - Lynn Tumey - Communication. October 24, 2002 - Rich Grace - Lack of funding.
11 10-28-02	The War on Drugs Assignments
12 11-4-02	No class November 5, 2002 Catch up and other topics. Readings Due: Shannon Mack and Dana Gutierrez readings due to class.
13 11-11-02	Minority Overrepresentation in the justice system Assignments Readings Due: Dustin Kleckner - Readins due to class.
14 11-18-02	November 19, 2002 - Shannon Mack - Overload in the system. November 21, 2002 - Dana Guiterrez - Juvenile Crime. Determine Final Exam Qestions
15 11-25-02	November 26, 2002 - Dustin Kleckner - Overcrowding in jails and prisons. No class November 28, 2002 (Thanksgiving)
16 12-2-02	General discussion of where we have been and what is important, how do we solve the problems that were identified. Catch up. Final Exam Due: Tuesday, Deec. 10, 2002

I have uploaded the Power Point Files used in class on to the web site. If you do not have a Power Point reader you may download the reader using the below link. The program will take some time to download and will then need to be executed.

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