CRJ 130 — Criminal Law
This course will review the development of criminal law, the mechanism used by civilized society to regulate behaviors The course is broken into four (4) basic areas: the fundamentals of criminal law (history, organization, constitution, and common law); statutory crimes (crimes against persons and property, crimes against society, and victimless crimes) and defenses; the mechanics of criminal prosecution (search and seizure, arrest, interrogation, pretrial process, and trial); and disposition and post-trial matters (sentencing, punishment, rehabilitation, and appeals)