CJBA 381 Special Topics in Criminal Justice Research

3 hours 

This seminar analyzes critical issues affecting the criminal justice process. It provides students with an opportunity to critically explore and reflect on timely challenges to the administration of justice not examined in regular course offerings in departments across college. Topics may include LGBT individuals and the American criminal justice system, individual rights and public welfare, criminalization of illness and medicalization of justice, authority and power, democracy and crime, gun and gun control, therapeutic courts in America, and comparative analysis of religion and justice, among others.