Criminal Justice
CJ100 Survey of the Criminal Justice System
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Reviews court systems and procedures from criminal violation to final disposition. Covers six primary functional areas of administration of justice and reviews principles of federal, state, criminal and civil laws as they apply to and affect law enforcement. F, W, Sp, Su.
CJ101 Criminology
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Covers the development and conceptualization of crime including historical perspective, social and legal definitions, and classifications. Includes an overview of criminology, research, data gathering, and analysis. Introduces major theoretical perspectives on the nature of crime, criminals, and victimization. Identifies current trends and patterns of crime typologies as well as societal and institutional responses. F, W, Sp, Su.
CJ110 Introduction to Law Enforcement
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces the history and philosophy of law enforcement and the administration of justice. Provides a preview of law enforcement as a career and examines how an agency functions in relation to the community. F, Sp
CJ112 Field Operations and Patrol Procedures
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces the nature and purpose of patrol activities, including routine and emergency procedures, types of patrol, arrest procedures and field interviews. Covers equipment, technology and vehicle operation. Emphasizes report documentation, courtroom testimony and police tactical communications. W
CJ123 Spanish for Law Enforcemt Personnel
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Offers a practical, learner friendly Spanish language course for law enforcement students and personnel. Emphasizes officer safety, increased community safety, enhanced job performance, and protection from legal liability. Requires No prior knowledge of Spanish. Prerequisite: None; however, coursework in CJ110 or CJ112 is recommended unless already have prior practical experience as a cadet, reserve, or certified law enforcement officer. W
CJ130 Introduction to Corrections Process
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces the corrections process, including historical development through contemporary issues. Reviews the history, current practices, and future considerations of corrections. Identifies the subcomponents of corrections; variations in correctional institutions, levels of custody, administrative practices, correctional staff roles and responsibilities, institutional policies, procedures, and programs. Covers changing inmate demographics, special needs inmates, safety and security concerns, and current issues. F,W
CJ132 Introduction to Parole and Probation
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces the corrections process, including historical development through contemporary issues. Identifies variations in correctional institutions, levels of custody, administration practices, correctional staff?s roles and responsibilities, institutional policies, procedures, and programs. Covers changing inmate demographics, special needs inmates, safety/security concerns, and current issues. F, W, Sp, Su
CJ134 Contraband and Search
1 credit hours, 1 Lecture hours
Focuses on the proper forms and processes for conducting searches of persons such as staff, volunteers, contractors, and visitors; living, common access, and work areas; and vehicles. W
CJ136 Transport, Escort & Restraints
1 credit hours, 1 Lecture hours
Covers practical techniques for the transportation, restraint, and escorting of inmates within a facility or in the general public. Reviews management concepts for the classification and risk criteria factors for inmates that determine custody level. Includes the importance of the safety, security, and orderly operation of facilities and the safety and welfare of staff and the general public. F
CJ138 Security Threat Groups
1 credit hours, 1 Lecture hours
Explores the criminal subcultures of security threat groups (STGs) and gangs. Includes the management concepts for individuals at risk of involvement in STGs or gangs, the identifying characteristics of involvement, intervention strategies, and the importance of interagency networking and information sharing. Outlines some concept of covert communications used by STGs and gangs in communicating within facilities, jail, and on the streets. Sp
CJ142A Managing the Mentally Ill Offender
1 credit hours, 1 Lecture hours
ocuses on understanding and supervising youthful and adult offenders in confinement by developing an awareness of the dynamics, basic behaviors, and interpersonal interactions commonly found among offenders exhibiting these serious mental disorders: anxiety, dissociative, mood, personality, psychotic (schizophrenia), and mental retardation. W
CJ144 Suicide Prevention and Intervention Skills
2 credit hours, 2 Lecture hours
Presents a suicide prevention and intervention practice-dominated course designed to help individuals, criminal justice, juvenile and social service caregivers recognize and review risk, and to intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. F, Sp
CJ145 Managing Long Term Offenders
1 credit hours, 1 Lecture hours
Addresses management strategies for long-term offenders. Covers inmate perception about serving longer sentences, their views of establishing relationships, and accountability challenges. Includes management of death row inmates, the elderly inmate population with unique special needs, and the security risk posed by lifers attempting to escape. Sp
CJ146 Officer Survival Mindset
1 credit hours, 1 Lecture hours
Provides a historical review of issues and scenarios related to officer survival and provides insight from the lessons learned. Introduces the mistakes in decision-making, personal distancing, or threat assessment of a suspect and/or offender. Provides a brief review of cases where officers were killed in the line of duty. Covers the survival mindset, confrontations, and new intervention pathways, as well as the courageous spirit. F
CJ147 Criminal Personality and Errors in Thinking
1 credit hours, 1 Lecture hours
Introduces personality disorders as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Addresses errors in thinking which are uniquely present in criminal behavior. Reviews the foundational work of Yochelson and Samenow on the criminal mind. F
CJ150 Unarmed Private Security Operations and Procedures
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces a historical perspective on unarmed private security, types of personnel, and physical and procedural controls. covers types of security such as computer, industrial, retail, commercial, institutional, and specialized security. Includes future development and needs of private security. W
CJ170 Juvinile Justice Ethics and Boundaries
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Provides an introduction to ethical and boundary issues that confront workers in the juvenile justice system. Increases the capacity for the identification and analyses of issues and the development of positions relative to the issues. Focuses on more difficult ethical and boundary issues prevalent in juvenile justice today. W
CJ199D Group Skills/Youth Corrections
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces group dynamics, and group organization and facilitation skills for youth correctional clients. Includes identification of criminal tactics that obstruct group evaluation.
CJ200 Police and Public Policy
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Discusses the role of criminal justice practitioners in maintaining community relations. Examines the interrelationships and role expectations of agencies and the public, police and community tension, social forces and police image. F
CJ203 Crisis Intervention Seminar
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces an overview of the techniques and approaches to crisis intervention for entry-level criminal justice professionals. Covers initial intervention, defusing and assessment, resolution and/or referral with emphasis on safety. Includes personal effectiveness, recognition of threat levels, voluntary compliance, verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening and mediation. F, W, Sp
CJ206 Crime and Delinquency
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces the historical development of childhood and the legal concepts of delinquency. Studies crime and delinquency rates and typologies focusing on data variations impacted by age, sex, race/ethnicity, socio-economic and educational status, urbanization, and other key factors as independent variables. Introduces major theoretical perspectives and their application in the study of juvenile delinquency. Covers key concepts affecting juvenile victimization. F, W, Sp, Su
CJ207 Diversity Issues in Criminal Justice
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces the civil rights of citizens related to religion, ethnicity, culture, race, gender, age, disability and sexual preference. Explores the legal and societal responsibilities of criminal justice professionals to the protection of those rights in the course of public safety duties. Involves creative, critical, and solution-oriented thinking throughout the course. Prerequisite: Current enrollment in Criminal Justice program with personal history clearance or consent of instructor. Sp.
CJ209 Introduction to Victimology
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Traces the criminal justice system's historic and current response to crime victims. Provides a comprehensive overview of the offender-victim relationship, while addressing victim support policies and programs. Presents a realistic approach to understanding the process of victimization and the broad range of coping mechanisms that victims employ to deal with their particular experience. F
CJ210 Introduction to Criminal Investigations 1: Crimes vs. Persons
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Covers historical development of criminalistics. Introduces current basic techniques and components involved in major persons-related crime scene investigations. Includes skills necessary to process the scene. Identifies specialized procedures and technology used to identify, profile, locate and apprehend offenders. Covers interviewing/interrogation techniques. Stresses importance of field notes and case documentation. emphasizes escalation-cycling patterns of serious offenders. Includes factua case studies. fucouses on ualities of a successful investigator. Examines development of confidentially reliable invormants. F, W, Sp
CJ211 Introduction to Criminal Investigations 2: Crimes vs. Property
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces basic techniques and components involved in major property-related crime scene investigations. Includes skills necessary to process scene. Identifies specialized procedures/technology used to identify, locate, and recover stolen property. Covers methods to identify and apprehend individuals. Emphasizes correlation between property crimes and drug use. Includes preparation of and current trends in cyber, terrorism, identity, and narcotics investigations. Sp.
CJ212 Police Report Writing
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Provides students with the necessary information to become knowledgeable and successful writers of narrative police reports, documenting both original crimes and follow-up investigations. Utilizes a specialized format to meet different types of investigative activities, e.g., crime scene processing, interviews with suspects and witnesses, undercover operations and the execution of search warrants. Re-emphasizes basic writing skills and spelling accuracy related to criminal justice terminology. CJ110 or CJ112 recommended. Offered as needed.
CJ215 Criminal Justice Administration
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Surveys the administrative practices of criminal justice agencies with special emphasis on law enforcement. Covers administration in the public services area, including organizational theory and management, personnel management and policy and procedures formulation. Sp.
CJ217 Interviewing and Interrogation in Criminal Justice
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Focuses on becoming a knowledgeable interviewer and interrogator. Introduces REID Interview and FBI PERSPECTIVE techniques. Includes brief review of constitutional constraints and professional ethics specific to interviewing and/or interrogation of suspects, witnesses, complainants, and victims. Covers interview and interrogation objectives, preparation, approaches, and technical aids. Presents the importance of listening and documentation. Includes practical scenarios/role playing. W
CJ220 Introduction to Substantive Law and Oregon Criminal Code
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces the origin and structure of common-law crimes, case decisions, and the development of statutory crimes. Reviews the amendments of the constitution which protect citizens during criminal inquiries, introduces the elements of a crime and the types of affirmative defenses presented at a criminal proceeding. Provides distinctions between criminal and civil law, criminal court procedures, criminal law case reading, federal and state law, and selected Oregon criminal code sections. F, Sp
CJ222 Profiling Serial Killers
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Analyzes a specific offender type, the serial killer. Includes historical perspective, motives, and killer phases. Emphasizes the methodology of profiling, crime scene analysis, and modus operandi as developed by the FBI Investigative Support Unit to assist law enforcement. Covers victimologies, VI-CAP, and Oregon H.I.T.S. systems. Uses individual case studies. Sp
CJ224 Missing and Abducted Children
1 credit hours, 1 Lecture hours
Provides specialized training regarding child abductions and missing children. Includes victimology, motives, custodial vs. non-custodial, kidnap murder, cult murder, 'grooming' techniques, crime scene indicators, and forensic evidence. Introduces notification and training systems including National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Amber Alert Plan, FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resource Center (CASMIRC), Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP), K-9 usage, and A Child is Missing (ACIM) Plan. Emphasizes the first four hours investigative tasks. W
CJ226 Introduction to Constitutional Law
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Presents an intensive study and analysis of the United States Constitution and court decisions that interpret the Consititution. Studies court decisions that determine the admissibility of evidence in criminal cases and which affect police procedures. Considers the criminal procedures process with an emphasis on the role of law enforcement in this process. F, W, Sp, Su.
CJ230 Introduction to Juvenile Corrections
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Introduces the historical and contemporary aspects of juvenile corrections. Identifies and explores the philosophy, functions, and goals of the juvenile justice system. Emphasizes the role of law enforcement, the courts, community-based corrections, and custodial facilities. Includes an overview of the ongoing debate concerning rehabilitation vs. punishment philosophies in the juvenile justice system, especially as it relates to safety/security issues and public concerns. F, W, Sp, Su
CJ232 Introduction to Corrections Casework
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Presents an overview of casework in corrections settings. Includes introduction to behavior modification theories and methods, contemporary counseling methods, assessment processes, and the development of officer-client relations. Emphasizes observation skills, perception issues, information gathering, interpersonal communication skills, and interviewing strategies and techniques as part of corrections casework. F, Sp
CJ235 Youth, Drugs and Corrections
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Studies current trends, programs and philosophies regarding addiction, assessment processes, treatment options and related behavioral issues for youth offenders specifically in correctional institutions and post-conviction supervision. F, Sp.
CJ236 Public Safety Leadership and Ethics 1: Philosophy of Leadership
4 credit hours, 4 Lecture hours
Introduces philosophies and ethics for public safety leadership. Focuses on core values, ethics, and decision-making. Explores developing a personal leadership philosophy. Includes defining the difference between leadership and management and completing self-assessments in an effort to gain insight into personal leadership styles and characteristics. Offered as needed.
CJ237 Public Safety Leadership and Ethics 2: Leading Others
4 credit hours, 4 Lecture hours
Explores the various roles of leadership as they relate to being a team builder, delegator, conflict resolution facilitator, coach, and mentor. Focuses on gaining an understanding of communication processes, empowerment, and leading in a diverse environment. Explores various theories of leadership including situational leadership, transformational leadership, and servant leadership. Offered as needed.
CJ238 Public Safety Leadership and Ethics 3: Organizational Leadership
4 credit hours, 4 Lecture hours
Explores the leadership process and the leader-follower relationship within an organizational setting. Covers the influence of organizational culture, values, and societal issues on leadership effectiveness. Introduces the concepts of learning organizations, organizational health, defenses, and change. Examines how a leader moves an organization from vision to action. Offered as needed.
CJ239 Public Safety Leadership and Ethics 4: Ethics and the Challenge of Leadership
4 credit hours, 4 Lecture hours
Correlates the personal core values and characteristics to ethical decisions and behaviors. Explores ethical and principle-centered leadership, including ethical systems, dilemmas, and decision making. Examines the challenges and develops strategies for leading in public safety organizations serving diverse and dynamic communities. Offered as needed.
CJ253 Introduction to Penology
3 credit hours, 3 Lecture hours
Includes a historical overview of punishment, the development of prisons, and the role of imprisonment as a correctional tool. Includes a detailed examination of prison conditions, administrative practices, classification and custody. Focuses on prisoner's rights and legal issues and the death penalty. F, W
CJ255 How to Prepare for Oral Boards and Multi-Assessment
2 credit hours, 2 Lecture hours
Presents specialized training opportunities for students, municipal and county reserves, and cadets who anticipate applying for full-time employment in the criminal justice field. Reviews basic Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) certification requirements, as well as preparatory steps to be successful in passing oral board interviews and initial phases of a multi-assessment process. Covers stress, voice control, behaviors, appearance, attitude, and dress. Students are photographed, videotaped, and participate in a competitive oral board scored by professionals in the field of law enforcement, corrections, and parole and probation. Sp
CJ280A-L Cooperative Work Experience
1-12 credit hours, 0-34 CWE hours
Places students in a business, industry or agency for on-the-job training and experience related to instruction. Field experience supervised by college instructors and work experience coordinators. See program advisors. Offered as needed.
Updated October 28, 2007 by Marketing and Student Recruitment.