Course offerings
Spring 2010
Criminal Justice 555 Seminar in Criminological Theory: Individual, situational and ecological correlates of criminal behavior; data sources and empirical research.
Criminal Justice 592 Topics in Criminal Justice: Policy formation, administrative management, evaluation, research developments
Criminal Justice 702 Master's Directed Study: For master's students researching and writing their thesis or master's essay.
Criminal Justice 800 Doctor's Research/Dissertation: For doctoral candidates researching or writing their dissertation.
Political Science 514 Seminar in Public Policy: Examination of central questions in public policy, includingwhat is the nature of public policy, what is policy analysis, why doesn government intervene in society?
Schedules and room assignments may be found here.
Fall 2009
Criminal Justice 530 Processes and Institutions: Process of criminal justice in the context of social, political, and economic environments.
Criminal Justice 540 Seminar in Evaluation Research: Interrelationship of ideology, data, policy development, and policy implementation in public policy analysis.
Criminal Justice 570 Police and Society:Community and selected social institutional factors as related to their influence on police systems.
Criminal Justice 592 Topics in Criminal Justice: Policy formation, administrative management, evaluation, research developments
Political Science 503 Research Methods in Political Science and Criminal Justice: Social science research design topics including: measurement, sampling, data sources, experimental and quasi-experimental designs, field and historical designs and content analytic designs.
Spring 2009
Criminal Justice 540 Seminar in Evaluation research: Interrelationship of ideology, data, policy development, and policy implementation in public policy analysis.
Criminal Justice 560 Prosecution and Adjudication; The function of courts and the behavior of prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges within the criminal justice system.
Criminal Justice 702 Master's Directed Study For master's students researching and writing their thesis or master's essay.
Criminal Justice 800 Doctor's Research/Dissertation For doctoral candidates researching or writing their dissertation.
Fall 2008
Criminal Justice 403 Violence Toward Women Violence toward women and its relationship to broader social issues such as sexism and social control.
Criminal Justice 504 Quantitative Methods In Political Science and Criminal Justice Applied statistical skills, enabling understanding of substantive political and social questions.
Criminal Justice 530 Processes and Institutions Process of criminal justice in the context of social, political, and economic environments.
Criminal Justice 702 Master's Directed Study For master's students researching and writing their thesis or master's essay.
Criminal Justice 800 Doctor's Research/Dissertation For doctoral candidates researching or writing their dissertation.
Political Science 503 Introduction to Political Science Research Methods This is a course on social science research design methods. It will introduce you to important concepts, approaches and methods for conducting and critiquing empirical research about social science problems--especially those that have to do with the criminal justice system.
Political Science 542 Proseminar in Administration, Justice nd Applied Policy Studies Origin, development, and contemporary issues in political organization and structure in the United States.
Summer 2008
Political Science 543 Topics in Public Administration and Policy:
Technology, Social Control and Public Policy This course explores how a "networked" world has bred new crimes and new responses, and investigates how information and communication technology (ICT) has become a tool, a target, and a place of criminal activity and national security threats, as well as a mechanism of response.
This course addresses such questions as how emerging technologies challenge existing laws and criminal procedures; how nation-states regulate criminal conduct across traditional geographic and political boundaries; what reasonable expectations of privacy are in cyberspace; and how control is shifting from traditional mechanisms of law enforcement to new regulatory regimes, including technology.
Spring 2008
Criminal Justice 420 Criminal procedure
Criminal Justice 541 Seminar in Corrections
This course will examine issues related to the implementation and effectiveness of various correctional treatment approaches and programs, including the history, purpose and common targets of correctional treatment interventions; the impact of the correctional environment and legal issues related to treatment; characteristics and responsibilities of correctional treatment staff; and the role of assessment, prediction, and classification in offender treatment.
Topics will also include the major theories underlying individual treatment and behavior change, such as the psychoanalytic, humanistic, radical behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, group and family-based approaches to treatment. The course will also examine treatment interventions for specific populations of offenders, including juvenile offenders, drug-involved offenders, sexual offenders, and mentally ill/disabled offenders. The purpose of this course is not to train students to be correctional counselors, rather the goal is to increase the awareness of correctional treatment approaches and issues often lacking among both criminal justice practitioners and academics.
Criminal Justice 555 Seminar in the Nature of Crime
Criminal Justice 591/592 Seminar in Police Faitigue
Criminal Justice 702 Master's Directed Study For master's students researching and writing their thesis or master's essay.
Criminal Justice 800 Doctor's Research/Dissertation For doctoral candidates researching or writing their dissertation.
Contacts
David Brody, JD, PhD
Program Director
E-mail: brody@wsu.edu
Telephone: 509.358.7952
Rachel Young
Administrative Assistant
E-mail: reyoung@wsu.edu
Telephone: 509.358.7950
Academic Center, Suite 401
