If you’re looking to pursue a career in criminal justice, you’ll be opening yourself to a lot of fascinating, important criminal justice courses. For those with a love of law enforcement looking to pursue a rewarding career, the specialized training offered through criminal justice courses in CT and colleges around the country.

Criminal Justice is a highly specialized field, and its members must have the right training from the right criminal justice school to get the job done and uphold a high level of public trust. A criminal justice degree from Goodwin College will provide you the opportunity to experience and learn about all aspects of the Criminal Justice system. You will develop the critical thinking skills necessary for modern law enforcement, security, emergency response, and investigative professions. Through exposure to contemporary policing issues, historical development, and the future of Criminal Justice, you will be well-prepared for a successful career.

We offer a unique opportunity to focus elective courses on homeland security, computer crime, forensics, law enforcement, and other contemporary law enforcement subjects. Here are just a few of the fascinating criminal justice classes available to Goodwin students!

Introduction to Criminal Justice and the Law

The first available criminal justice course gives students a great overall primer on our criminal justice system, and the multitude of careers available for law enforcement students! In addition, students will be presented with an overview of the history, purposes, and effectiveness of Federal and State criminal law the various aspects of criminal justice. Topics include identification of the elements of a crime and an examination of specific types of crimes and their assigned penalties.

Forensic Photography

Learn all about the basic principles, techniques, and equipment of the important field of forensic photography! Students will learn the importance of photography and how it is used to document, preserve, and identify evidence. Students will develop skills through practical experiences. Emphasis will given to skills pertaining to photographing a crime scene and specific areas of a crime scene, such as fingerprints, blood splatter, firearms, people and vehicles.

Criminology

This course places special focus on contemporary areas and issues such as feminist theories and feminist criminology; biological and genetic theories of criminal behavior; violence in the media; family assault and its criminalization; crimes of violence against women in America and abroad; mass murder in the United States; school violence and shootings; hate crimes and terrorism in America. Society’s response to crime is covered and addresses the question of how security and freedom interface in an age of increasing globalism.

Juvenile Justice in America

Students will focus on the important issues, emerging trends, contemporary research, and special challenges facing juvenile justice today. This comprehensive exploration of the American juvenile justice system covers the history and philosophy of juvenile justice, the current practices for processing youthful offenders, the detention of juveniles, and the diversion of youth from the juvenile justice system. This course gives students an “up-close and personal” view of the fascinating and sometimes tragic world of the juvenile offender–and the personal, psychological and thinking processes that characterize juvenile misbehavior.

Constitutional Law

The bedrock of the American criminal justice system is the U.S. Constitution, and this course provides students with an overview of the basic principles of due process. Students will review landmark decisions from the U. S. Supreme Court and their impact on the criminal justice system throughout history.

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