Criminal Justice, AAS

Learning Outcomes

• Apply the knowledge and verbal skills requisite to effectively communicate with criminal suspects, victims, witnesses, persons in crisis and others in need.
• Identify constitutional freedoms and rights, and how an ethical criminal justice system and participatory citizenship protect those freedoms and rights.
• Describe those applicant screening/selection process typically utilized by law enforcement and corrections agencies for their entry-level positions.
• Analyze a criminal case to determine its appropriate processing, given an understanding of the jurisdiction and functions of police, courts and corrections as components of an interdependent criminal justice system.
• Secure and process a crime scene, employing proper techniques of evidence gathering, searching, sketching and on-scene interviewing.
• Analyze criminal statutes to determine the statutes elements, constitutionality and proper application.
• Produce written incident and investigative reports that are useful and professional in terms of accuracy, completeness, spelling and grammar.

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