- An examination of recent textual materials, government reports, and periodicals to study contemporary issues throughout the criminal justice system - police, courts and corrections - including but not limited to juvenile delinquency, crime rates and racial discrimination within the system; the death penalty; domestic and family violence; punishment and rehabilitation in the correctional system, police misconduct, police brutality, and excessive use of force. Course includes preparation of a research paper.
This course surveys the history and philosophy of justice in the United States; surveys the American criminal justice system and various subsystems, and the roles and expectations of criminal justice personnel and their interrelationships within the criminal justice process. The course surveys concepts of crime causation, punishments, and rehabilitation. The course is a Feather River College social science general education credit and an Area D General Education transfer course to California and other 4-year state schools. It is a required course for Administration of Justice majors.
This course surveys the history of punishment and corrections; the correctional process; functions and objectives of the criminal justice system concerned with incarceration, probation, and parole processes as they modify offenders’ behavior. This course is required for Administration of Justice majors; it is an elective transfer course for non-majors.
- Students will be provided with an understanding of techniques of handling juvenile offenders and victims; methods of prevention and repression of delinquency; delinquency diagnosis and referral; and the organization of community resources. This course fulfills a Feather River College general education social science credit and is a required course for Administration of Justice majors.
Students will learn the skills necessary to conduct criminal investigations, such as techniques of crime scene search and recording; collection and preservation of physical evidence; modus operandi processes; collection of information; interviewing and interrogation; and follow-up investigations.
This course surveys the origin, development, philosophy, and constitutional basis of evidence; constitutional and procedural considerations of affecting arrest, search and seizures, kinds and degrees of evidence, and rules governing its admissibility in court.
