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This course covers the essential elements of a justice system and model common to the American experience, namely the police and law enforcement, legal, courts, correctional and other specialized functions. The coverage targets federal, state and local CRJ components and points out their interdependency and complimentary purpose and design. The course features both the substantive and procedural parts of a much larger system and highlights the typical features found in justice models. Finally, the course provides a basic understanding and overview of these many components and fosters further intensive study into particular aspects of the system.
Course outlines the most crucial and fundamental issues relevant to contemporary police practice in the American experience. Course commences with an historical overview of police, its evolution and changing mission over the life of the nation and how policing deals with the challenges of crime, social disorder and social problems. Other topics include the impact of police culture has upon police perception and operational command, efforts to integrate the police role into community life and how critical public support and cooperation is to a successful police command.