Criminal Justice for Beginners Description
Criminal Justice for Beginners by Dr. Jennifer Matthews introduces everything you need to know about the criminal justice system in America, ranging from its history to the modern institutional context as well as all essential concepts for the clearest understanding.
By the end of this course, you will be able to understand certain aspects and sequences of events that lead to the determination of guilt or innocence of an individual that is accused of committing a criminal crime.
Here are what you will learn in this course:
- Welcome to Class
- Welcome + Handbook (Downloadable)
- History of Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice Foundation
- Criminal Justice Foundation
- 3 Core Policing Ideas
- Core Policing Ideas Continued
- 9 Policing Principles
- Policing Principles Continued
- Recap
- Jim Crow Era
- Jim Crow Laws Effects
- Black Codes
- Black Codes Continued
- Recap
- The 14 Steps in the Criminal Justice System
- Overview 14 Steps
- Overview Steps Indictment
- Overview Steps Arraignment
- Overview Steps Vocabulary
- Overview Steps Trial
- Overview Steps Parole
- Overview Steps Probation
- Overview Steps Recap
- 4 Goals of the Criminal Justice System
- The 4 Goals of the Criminal Justice System
- Goals Rehabilitation
- Goals Deterrence
- Goals Incapacitation
- Recap