Water Tower Campus:
Lewis Towers 900
Phone: 312-915-7564
FAX: 312-915-7650
www.luc.edu/depts/crim
jus
Professor Emeritus: T. Frost
Professors: G.J. Bensinger, A.J. Lurigio
(chairperson)
Associate Professors: J. Goldschmidt, M.
Seng, L. Stalans, D. Struckhoff
Assistant Professor: D. Olson
The major in criminal justice is offered primarily
at the Water Tower Campus.
OBJECTIVES
The overarching objectives of the department are
to provide 1) a broad liberal arts background that enhances the understanding
and appreciation of all people; the awareness of group similarities and
differences, especially those relating to culture and race; the significance
of ethics, norms, and values in personal and social life as pertinent to
criminal justice; 2) various educational resources in order to develop
theoretical and practical knowledge of the structures, processes, and functions
of the criminal justice institution stressing its links and interdependence
with other institutions in the social system; 3) the opportunity to test
interests and abilities in criminal justice through controlled involvement
in operational settings (e.g., agency visits, field experiences, and research);
4) an integrated interdepartmental program in which students can explore
and develop their interests and capacities to the fullest extent while
fulfilling the requirements of the program; 5) stimulating and challenging
courses in a rigorous academic program; and 6) a foundation for entering
into demanding graduate or professional schools in criminal justice, law,
social work, or any of the social sciences.
DEPARTMENTAL
REGULATIONS
Requirements for the Major in Criminal Justice:
36 credit hours, including required courses CRMJ 131, 300, 305, 322, 335,
and 355. CRMJ 131, a prerequisite for all other criminal justice courses,
must be the first criminal justice course completed. A student who receives
a "D+" or lower in 131 will be advised to major in a field other than criminal
justice. CRMJ 355 must be taken in the senior year. Majors must also fulfill
the following related course requirements: CMUN 101, SOCL 101, PSYC 101,
PLSC 101.
Students majoring in criminal justice should obtain
the Handbook for Undergraduate Majors from their faculty advisors.
Not more than six courses (18 semester credit hours) in the major will
be accepted in transfer from other schools. Additional courses in the major
may transfer as general electives.
The senior-level internship (CRMJ 390) is limited
to majors whose academic performance is judged adequate. Students may request
(or may be invited to request) such an assignment as they approach the
end of the junior year. If they receive written approval for the internship,
a placement will be arranged by the faculty supervisor of the field internship
course.
Requirements for the Minor in Criminal Justice:
18 credit hours, including: CRMJ 131, 300, 305, 322, 335, and one Criminal
Justice elective. Formal application for a Criminal Justice minor should
be done at the departmental office.
Requirements for the Interdisciplinary Minor
in the Psychology of Crime and Justice: The minor requires six courses,
including PSYC 372 and CRMJ 322. Psychology majors need four Criminal Justice
and two Psychology courses (in addition to the twelve psychology classes
for the major). Criminal Justice majors need four psychology and two Criminal
Justice classes (in addition to the twelve Criminal Justice classes for
the major). Non-majors need three psychology and three Criminal Justice
classes.
DEGREE
REQUIREMENTS FOR A MAJOR IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (B.S.)
| |
Courses
|
Credit Hrs.
|
| Criminal Justice |
12
|
36
|
| Communicative/expressive
arts (CMUN 101) |
1
|
3
|
| English 105, 106 |
2
|
6
|
| Foreign language |
2
|
6
|
| History 101, and any course
from 102-107 |
2
|
6
|
| Literature core |
3
|
9
|
| Mathematics core |
1
|
3
|
| Natural science core |
3
|
9
|
| Philosophy core |
3
|
9
|
| Social sciences (PLSC 101;
PSYC 101; SOCL 101) |
3
|
9
|
| Theology core |
3
|
9
|
| Elective courses |
8
|
23
|
| TOTAL |
43
|
128
|
Combined B.S./M.A. Program
An undergraduate criminal justice major with a
cumulative GPA of at least 3.50 may apply for admission to the combined
B.S./M.A. program, providing the student has completed the following with
a GPA of at least 3.50: CRMJ 131, 300, 305, 322 and 335. A student admitted
to the program must satisfy all the undergraduate degree requirements (128
credit hours, including core and major requirements). Students are required
to consult with the Graduate Program Director prior to applying.
After being admitted into the program, students
may apply up to nine (9) credit hours taken in the senior year toward the
36 graduate credit hours required for the M.A. degree. These nine credit
hours must include two pre-approved 400-level courses and the capstone
course, CRMJ 355.
Students must achieve at least a 3.00 GPA in all
their graduate coursework and complete CRMJ 401, 402, 404, 407, 409 and
412 before taking the department’s master’s program comprehensive examination.
Note: Generally, no graduate courses taken
prior to admission into the combined B.S./M.A. program will count toward
the graduate-level course requirement. Students wishing to enter this program
will typically apply for admission during their junior year. To be accepted
into the program, a student must exhibit satisfactory progress toward completion
of the core requirements. Students should obtain an application form from
The Graduate School. One letter of recommendation from a full-time faculty
member of the Criminal Justice department and two letters of recommendation
from other full-time faculty at Loyola are required as part of the application
process.
COMBINED
B.S./M.A. PROGRAM IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Suggested Curriculum
| Freshman Program |
|
|
|
| First Semester |
Credit Hrs. |
Second Semester |
Credit Hrs. |
| English 105 |
3 |
English 106 |
3 |
| History 101 |
3 |
History 102-107 |
3 |
| Communication 101 |
3 |
Sociology 101 |
3 |
| Philosophy 120 |
3 |
Natural science core |
3 |
| Theology core |
3 |
Criminal Justice 131 |
3 |
| |
15 |
|
15 |
Sophomore Program
| Criminal Justice 305 |
3 |
Criminal Justice 300 |
3 |
| Literature core |
3 |
Criminal Justice 322 |
3 |
| Mathematics |
3 |
Political Science 101 |
3 |
| Philosophy (270’s) |
3 |
Natural science core |
3 |
| Psychology 101 |
3 |
Theology core |
3 |
| |
|
Philosophy (280’s) |
3 |
| |
15 |
|
18 |
| Junior Program |
|
|
|
| Criminal Justice
300-level |
3 |
Criminal Justice 300-level |
3 |
| Criminal Justice
335 |
3 |
Criminal Justice 300-level |
3 |
| Theology core |
3 |
Literature core |
3 |
| Literature
core |
3 |
Foreign language |
3 |
| Foreign language |
3 |
Natural science core |
3 |
| |
15 |
|
15 |
| Senior Program |
|
|
|
| Criminal Justice
300-level |
3 |
Criminal Justice 355 (may
be taken for graduate credit) |
3 |
| Criminal Justice
401 or 402 |
3 |
Criminal Justice 412 |
3 |
| Electives |
11 |
Electives |
12 |
| |
17 |
|
18 |
| Fifth Year |
|
|
|
| Criminal Justice
401 or 402 |
3 |
Criminal Justice 404 |
3 |
| Criminal Justice
407 |
3 |
Criminal Justice 420 or
440 |
3 |
| Criminal Justice
409 |
3 |
Criminal Justice 430 or
445 |
3 |
| |
9 |
|
9 |
One additional elective course and the thesis
or practicum may be completed in summer or the following semester.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
(All courses are 3 semester hours of credit.)
131. The Criminal Justice System.
An overview of the nature and purpose of government,
law, and justice. Social control in society, especially law as a type of
formal control. Reviews the procedures and personnel involved in the criminal
justice system. Topical areas include: nature of crime and criminal responsibility;
the criminal justice system from apprehension through corrections and release;
the adversary system; the roles of professionals; and the interrelationships
among law enforcement, judicial, correctional, and rehabilitative components.
300. Principles of Criminal Behavior.
Explores basic questions concerning human nature,
behavior, crime, and criminality; the controversies concerning determinism
and free will, personal and social responsibility, and crime as deviant
or normal behavior. Starting with early attempts to explain crime in classical
and positivist schools of thought, various approaches to criminology are
traced, compared, and evaluated in the light of contemporary knowledge.
Types of crime and criminal careers, recidivism, trends in crime, and likely
future developments in crime control are also considered.
301. Principles of Delinquent Behavior.
Major aspects of juvenile delinquency; causation
and prevention theories; juvenile justice system components; emerging legal
and philosophical issues; and the future of the juvenile justice system.
Analysis of family, school, community, gender, and other factors as they
effect delinquent behavior.
302. The Juvenile Justice System.
The social and justice system mechanisms (agencies)
employed to deal with delinquent and status offenders. Starting with an
analysis of the reasons for and history of the Juvenile Court, proceeding
to how police, courts, corrections and alternative modalities are used
to cope with delinquency and quasi-delinquency (status offenders, neglect
and dependency).
305. Municipal Police Operations.
The nature and purpose of policing in American
society with a particular emphasis on municipal police operations. Topics
include identification of the urban police function, contemporary American
police systems, principles of police organization and administration, basic
operational methodology, impact of unionization on the police function,
and efforts to professionalize.
308. Civil Disorder and Police Response.
Participants in social movements have exercised
their constitutional rights to assemble, protest, and seek redress of grievances.
Police have the professional tasks of protecting the rights of protesters
and assuring the peace and safety of all citizens. Confrontations have,
at times, led to violence. Special commissions have been appointed to investigate
the socio-historical causes, precipitating and escalating factors, and
police responses. This course examines in depth a broad sampling of these
events and issues.
309. Private Security Administration.
A general introduction to the fundamental concepts,
characteristics, and operational techniques of private security, its relationship
to professional law enforcement, as well as to protective security law.
Particular emphasis is placed on risk analysis and security techniques
as they relate to specific institutions and operations.
310. Contemporary Police Issues.
Covers contemporary issues in policing concerning
retention and recruitment, training and education, innovations in policing
strategies, professionalism and ethics.
315. Criminal Justice Research.
An introduction to the logic and basic concepts
of social research, with emphasis on the criminal justice sub-systems.
Scientific method, research design, and theory are explored. Causality,
experimentation, evaluation research, and sampling are presented in the
context of criminal justice.
316. Criminal Justice Statistics. (SOWK
391)
This course is designed to promote understanding
of statistical analysis used in the study of delinquency, crime and the
criminal justice system. Topics include: univariate statistics, bivariate
linear regression, correlation, selected multivariate techniques, statistical
inference and tests of significance. The appropriate use of these statistics
will be stressed.
322. Criminal Courts and Procedures I.
An overview of the development of federal, state,
and local criminal courts: their structure, administration, case flow,
and interrelationships with other components of the criminal justice system.
The functions and activities of court personnel are also examined. An overview
of criminal procedures: investigations, search and seizure, stops, arrests,
pretrial hearing, plea bargaining, and jury trials. Finally, the development
of criminal law and its application are discussed.
323. Criminal Courts and Procedures II.
Prerequisite: 322.
An in-depth and sophisticated coverage of criminal
procedures from formal charging through the appeals of outcomes with focus
on the major substantive, evidentiary, and procedural laws surrounding
detention, trial, sentencing, and post-conviction matters (i.e., appeals,
outcomes, litigation on the treatment of prisoners).
325. Issues in Criminal Justice.
The in-depth study of various current issues:
race, crime and justice; criminal justice-the consumer’s perspective; capital
punishment; America’s prisons; dissent; and the dynamics of democracy.
335. Corrections in America.
An overview of corrections with discussions of
probation and parole and a focus on correctional institutions-their history,
purpose, performance and present problems. Study of assumptions that have
guided American correctional practice as well as those that form its present
functioning.
337. Criminal Motivation.
Examines some current typologies (profiles) used
to understand crime and criminals. This course is highly analytical in
its approach. Depth of analysis is sought in discussions and term papers.
Beginning with an analysis of causation, motives and typologies, the course
moves through a series of types of crime and acknowledges that competing
views can be found in criminosynthetic theory and in biopsychosocial approaches.
Discussion of cases to illustrate the various typologies will comprise
the final segment of the course and enable the student to synthesize materials
learned earlier in the course.
338. Alternatives to Imprisonment.
Stricter laws, higher levels of violence, harsher
crime control policies, and longer sentences are among the conditions that
have produced great increases in the prison population and renewed interest
in alternatives to imprisonment. This course studies the wide range of
alternatives at all stages of the criminal justice system for both adults
and juveniles. Emphasis on theory and practice of diversion programs such
as youth service bureaus, deferred prosecution, and police-social worker
teams; bail alternatives; and programs such as probation, parole, furloughs
and halfway houses, examined within the conceptual framework of community-based
corrections.
350. Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Justice.
The conflict between the utilitarian rationale
of punishment and deterrence and the deontological rationale of punishment
as retribution; classic and recent arguments for and against civil disobedience;
terrorism, revolutionary ethics, and the political prisoner; the alternatives
of repression and anarchy; nonpenal forms of coercion in our political/legal
system; morality and judicial reasoning.
351. Organized Crime.
An introduction to organized crime; its development
in America, particularly in Illinois; the industries of organized crime,
its criminal enterprises and its involvement in business and labor; techniques
employed by organized crime. Discussion of the problems confronting law
enforcement as well as the various government strategies to counteract
it.
352. Gang Activity and Control.
Historical development of urban street gangs with
a view toward understanding their structures, characteristics, purposes
and activities. Prevention and control strategies and programs in Chicago
and other parts of the nation.
353. White Collar Crime.
An overview of corruption in our major social
institutions, especially business and government. Socio-historical treatment
of the origin, development, and ramifications of white collar crime. White
collar crime is a form of social deviance or social conformity; similarities
and differences in comparison with "conventional" and violent forms of
criminal behavior. Public responses as reflected by peer or in-group loyalties
and variations in sentences for white collar versus other crimes; future
remedies, solutions, or improved controls.
354. Chicago Justice: The Criminal Justice System
in Cook County.
The organization and functions of the criminal
and juvenile justice systems in Cook County —the largest jurisdiction of
its kind in the U.S. Starting with a general historical and philosophical
framework for the system of justice, specific attention is directed to
the law enforcement, prosecution, judicial and correctional agencies with
jurisdiction in Cook County. Students are provided with first-hand observation
and experience of the system-in-process.
355. The Criminal Justice System-Senior Capstone.
Prerequisites: senior standing, nine criminal
justice courses. The capstone course for graduating criminal justice majors.
A review of the essential elements in previous courses, with an integration
of knowledge to allow students to understand the principles and theories
that guide U.S. practices. Students are required to study and report on
criminal justice issues that are frequently of concern to the public and
to place such issues in proper perspective.
360. Drug Abuse Control.
A comprehensive overview of the problems posed
to the criminal justice system by the abuse of drugs in the U.S. Theories
of drug addiction, types of drug classification, responses by medical and
legal authorities, and approaches to mitigation or solution of the problems.
Against the background of ethical and constitutional issues, the inherent
conflict of personal responsibility vs. addictive dependence and criminal
sanctions vs. treatment proposals are also explored in depth.
370. Women in the Criminal Justice System. (WOST
395)
The course examines four areas relative to women
in the criminal justice system: the historical view; women as defendants
in criminal cases and women in prison; women as victims of domestic violence
and sexual assault; and women as professionals in the system (police officers,
attorneys, judges, correctional officers).
371. Victims and the Criminal Justice System.
A broad overview of the historical and contemporary
role of victims in the criminal justice system. Constitutional, legislative,
executive, and judicial remedies designed to ameliorate the effects of
crime on victims and the implications of these interventions for law enforcement,
judicial, and private sector service organizations. "Special victims" groups
and their need for recovery and reconciliation pursuant to their role in
the criminal justice system and society.
372. Crime, Race and Violence. (BWS 372)
(PLSC 372)
The course examines the intellectual and policy
debates on racial differences in crime and violence in the United States
and whether racial bias occurs in the administration of "justice."
373. Domestic Violence. (WOST
392)
Two theoretical perspectives on domestic violence,
family violence and feminist theory are used to examine the prevalence
and origins of domestic violence. Focuses primarily on responses to domestic
violence by the police, prosecutors, legislators, community, and victims
and on men’s violence against women. The effects of domestic violence on
children and treatment programs for children are also covered.
375. Introduction to Law. (PLSC 214)
Prerequisite: sophomore standing.
Study of the law in society, including the structure
of legal systems, the constitutional foundations of legal systems, the
practices of the legal profession, and the substance of selected areas
of case law.
390. Field Practicum.
For majors judged adequate for placement. The
primary purpose is to enhance the student’s development and learning through
observation and participation. Placements are typically made with police,
prosecution, judicial, probation and corrections agencies in Chicago and
Cook County.
395. Special Topics.
Course titles and content vary from semester to
semester. Examples are: family law and social work; law and society; police
organization and management; criminal motivation; origins of law enforcement;
and computer and information systems. Students may take as many as three
courses bearing this number.
396. Independent Study.
Prerequisite: prior approval.
397H. Honors Reading Tutorial I. (H)
Prerequisite: prior approval.
Open to honors students majoring in criminal justice.
398H. Honors Reading Tutorial II. (H)
Prerequisite: prior approval.
Open to honors students majoring in criminal justice.
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