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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's Degree or equiv. international education

Credit Hours

60 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced)

Courses Offered

10

Criminal Justice and Society

This course focuses on the implications for society and the criminal justice system. Some distinctive chapters that address issues of drug abuse, crime, and criminal justice.

Crime Management

This course is known for its thoroughness, accessibility, and practicality. By focusing on both the "hows" and "whys" of management techniques, it equips you with the skills and knowledge to effectively deal with the issues they will face in today's field.

Investigation Management

This course presents crime detection as a dynamic field relying heavily on the past experiences of investigators as well as recent practical and technological innovations. It explores the many external variables that can influence the investigator's success and the specific methods of crime detection and prosecution of law available today.

Psychology of Different People

This course continues the story of psychology with added research and enhanced content from the most dynamic areas of the field—cognition, gender and diversity studies, neuroscience and more, while at the same time using the most effective teaching approaches and learning tools.

Current Issues in Criminal Justice

This course introduces you to major issues in the field of Criminal Justice and helps you understand how they fit within the context of crime and justice.

Criminal Justice and Ethics Enforcement

This course addresses typical moral dilemmas in criminal justice; this course introduces basic ethical theories and applies them to contemporary problems in law enforcement, corrections, and adjudications.

Advanced Research Methods in Criminal Justice

This course provides you with an examination of the advanced research methodologies used in evaluation of crime and criminal justice systems. The course also discusses the advanced research design, interpretation, and communication of results in criminal justice.

Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement

Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement course focuses on the important aspects in courts and corrections, and criminal justice reform. In this course, you will examine the policies and practices of law enforcement.

Advanced Criminal Justice

Advanced Criminal Justice involves Analysis of criminal justice system in a detailed level. Advanced Criminal Justice involves agencies with which we are all familiar; police, prisons, courts and probation services. This course focuses on police, courts, corrections, and notion of justice in societies.  

Police Technology

This course discusses examination of information technology in the public sector; Police Technology course discusses law enforcement as an information-intensive task. Whether interviewing victims, interrogating subjects, or gathering evidence, this course discusses the cutting-edge technology needed to handle the incredible load of information that goes along with an average investigation.

Cost of Attendance

Tuition Fee Breakdown 1 Cost
MASTERS DEGREE $27,000
Medical Insurance $0.00
Personal Expenses $0.00
Study Materials $0.00
Food Cost $0.00
Total Tuition Fee $27,000
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Criminal Justice and Society

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An introduction to drug use and abuse.
    History of drug use and drug legislation.
    Theoretical perspectives on drug use and abuse.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The major stimulants: cocaine and amphetamines.
    The major narcotics: opium, morphine, and heroin.
    Lsd and other hallucinogens.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Marijuana
    Depressants and inhalants.
    Anabolic steroids and drug abuse in sports.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Alcohol: social beverage/social drug.
    Chronic alcohol abuse and alcoholism.
    Nicotine and tobacco.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Drugs and crime.
    Drugs and the criminal justice system.
    Drug policy: prevention, education, and treatment.

Crime management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Probation and parole in criminal justice.
    Juvenile court and juvenile justice.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile probation, institutions, and aftercare.
    Probation and the courts: history and administration.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sentencing and the presentence investigation -psi-.
    American prisons and community-based corrections.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Parole and the indeterminate sentence.
    Parole administration and services.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Rehabilitation: theory and practice.
    Probation and parole officers.
    Probation and parole supervision.
    Special problems and programs in probation and parole.
    Intermediate punishments.
    Probation and parole in the twenty-first century.

Investigation management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Criminal investigation: an overview.
    The preliminary investigation.
    Documenting the crime scene.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Search and seizure.
    Identification of criminal suspects.
    The criminal intelligence function.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Undercover and surveillance operations.
    Making an arrest.
    Interviews and interrogation.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Development and management of informants.
    Wrongful death.
    Robbery.
    Assault and related offenses.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sex offenses.
    Child abuse and neglect.
    Burglary.
    Larceny-theft.
    Motor vehicle theft.
    Arson and bombings.
    Drug offenses.
    White-collar crime.
    Preparation for court.

Psychology of different people

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introducing social psychology
    Methodology: how social psychologists do research
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social cognition: how we think aout the social world
    Social perception: how we come to understand other people
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Self-knowledge: how we come to understand ourselves and nsp;
    The need to justify our actions
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Attitudes and attitude change: influencing thoughts and feelings and nsp;
    Conformity: influencing ehavior
    Group processes: influence in social groups and nsp;
    Interpersonal attraction: from first impressions to close relationships
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Prosocial ehavior: why do people help?
    Aggression: why we hurt other people
    Prejudice: causes and cures
    
    Social psychology and health
    Social psychology and the law

Current Issues in Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Recruitment and selection
    Training the police
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Developing the professional policing model
    New policing philosophies and strategies
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The police organization
    Police field work
    Measuring police performance
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Police misconduct
    Police accountability: internal mechanisms
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Police accountability: external mechanisms
    Technology and the police
    Next steps and challenges for police

Criminal Justice and Ethics Enforcement

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Ethics, criminology, and criminal justice
    The subject and scope of ethics
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Determinism and the problem of freedom
    Moral relativism
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Can we be moral?
    Sources of morality
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Moral development
    Consequences
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Duties, rights, and obligations
    Virtue, vice, and moral character

Advanced Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The research
    Frames of reference and problem formulation.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Research designs.
    Sampling techniques, purposes, and problems.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Questionnaires: construction, application, and issues.
    Interviewing: types, applications, and issues.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Observation and the use of secondary sources: types, applications, and issues.
    The measurement of variables in criminal justice and criminology: scaling, applications, and issues.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Validity and reliability of measures.
    Data coding, presentation and description.
    Hypotheses, hypothesis testing, and theory verification: interpreting information and examining issues.
    Ethical issues in research.

Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Overview of law enforcement and criminal justice.
    Criminal law and crime control.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Professionalism, ethics, and leadership.
    Communications.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Community policing: philosophy and strategy.
    Community policing: problem solving.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Career preparation.
    General police operations.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Legal aspects of policing.
    Policing: special situations.
    Investigations.
    The courts and the judicial process.
    Corrections.

Advanced Criminal Justice

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The problem of social control.
    The nature and measurement of crime.
    Theories of crime.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Criminal law.
    The history and organization of law enforcement.
    Controlling the police.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Issues in policing.
    The history and organization of courts.
    Working in the courtroom.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The disposition: plea-bargaining, trial, and sentencing.
    The history of control.
    The contemporary prison.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Corrections in the community.
    Juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice.
    Crime and values: drugs, gambling, and sex work.
    Present and emerging trends: the futures of criminal justice.

Police Technology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to police technology.
    Computer basics.
    Wireless communications.
    Network communications.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Geographic information.
    A brief history of police technology.
    Communications dispatch centers.
    Agency systems.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    External systems.
    The internet and law enforcement.
    Information exchange.
    Crime analysis.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Technology in investigations.
    Wiretaps.
    Tracking and surveillance.
    Hi-tech crime.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Major incident and disaster response technology.
    Technology in the street.
    Personnel and training.
    Implementing and managing technology.
    Emerging and future police technologies.
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