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Master's Degree (MCJ) in Juvenile Justice

  • Eligibility Criteria

    Bachelor's Degree or equiv. international education

  • Credit Hours

    60

  • Courses Offered

    10

  • Course Duration

    1 Year (Self-Paced)

  • Estimated Fee

    $27,000

Courses Offered

Getting a master’s degree from NYMU can open up new doors for your future, especially when it comes to your career path. When you receive your Master’s Degree from NYMU, there is a guaranteed silver lining to the doors of excellent opportunities that await for you.

Core

  • Course Name

  • Credit Hours

  • Crime Management (CJ-244)

  • 6 Credits

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  • Psychology Of Different People (CJ-353)

  • 6 Credits

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  • Current Issues In Criminal Justice (CJ-449)

  • 6 Credits

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  • Comparative Criminal Justice Systems (CJ-720)

  • 6 Credits

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  • Laws And Criminal Procedures (CJ-846)

  • 6 Credits

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Specialized

  • Course Name

  • Credit Hours

  • Research Methods In Criminal Justice (JUJ-007)

  • 6 Credits

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  • Juvenile Justice (JUJ-157)

  • 6 Credits

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  • Juvenile Law (JUJ-430)

  • 6 Credits

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  • Juvenile Justice And Ethics (JUJ-487)

  • 6 Credits

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  • Juvenile Delinquency (JUJ-735)

  • 6 Credits

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Crime Management (CJ-244)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Probation And Parole In Criminal Justice  
     Juvenile Court And Juvenile Justice                           
     Evolution Of Probation  
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Probation And The Courts: History And Administration  
     Sentencing And The Persistence Investigation (Psi)  
     American Prisons And Community-Based Corrections  
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Parole And The Indeterminate Sentence  
     Parole Administration And Services  
     The Philosophical Theories Of Punishment  
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Probation And Parole Officers  
     Probation And Parole Supervision  
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Probation Programs  
     The Intermediate Punishments  
     Probation And Parole In The Twenty-First Century  

Psychology Of Different People (CJ-353)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Introducing Social Psychology  
     Methodology: How Social Psychologists Do Research  
     Social Cognition: How We Think About The Social World  
     Social Perception: How We Come To Understand Other People  
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Self Knowledge: How We Come To Understand Ourselves  
     The Need To Justify Our Actions: Costs And Benefits Of Dissonance Reduction
     Attitudes And Attitude Change: Influencing Thoughts And Feelings  
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Conformity: Influencing Behavior  
     Group Processes: Influence In Social Groups  
     Interpersonal Attraction: From First Impressions To Close Relationships  
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Pro-Social Behavior: Why Do People Help?  
     Aggression: Why Do We Hurt Other People? Can We Prevent It?  
     Prejudice: Causes And Cures
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Making A Difference With Social Psychology: Attaining A Sustainable Future  
     Social Psychology And Health  
     Social Psychology And The Law  

Current Issues In Criminal Justice (CJ-449)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Recruitment And Selection  
     Training The Police  
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Development Of The Professional Policing Model  
     New Policing Philosophies And Strategies  
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Police Organization  
     Police Field Work  
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Measuring Police Performance  
     Police Misconduct  
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Police Accountability: Internal And External Mechanisms  
     Technology And The Police  
     Next Steps And Challenges For Police  

Comparative Criminal Justice Systems (CJ-720)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     An International Perspective  
     Crime, Transnational Crime And Justice  
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     An American Perspective On Criminal Law  
     Legal Traditions  
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Substantive Law And Procedural Law In The Four Legal Traditions  
     An International Perspective On Policing  
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     An International Perspective On Courts  
     An International Perspective On Corrections  
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     An International Perspective On Juvenile Justice  
     Japan: Examples Of Effectiveness And Borrowing  

Laws And Criminal Procedures (CJ-846)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Fourth Amendment Standards: Probable Cause To Search, Warrants And Exceptions  
     The Concept Of Stop And Frisk  
     Arrest And Seizure Of The Person  
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Fourth Amendment Searches And Seizures: Houses, Persons, Motor Vehicles And Effects  
     Special Problem Searches: Administrative, Inventory, School, Airport, And Work Searches  
     Principles Of The Exclusionary Rule: Remedies And Exceptions To Constitutional Violations  
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Miranda Warnings And Practice  
     Confession And The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination     
     Identification Procedures: Constitutional Considerations  
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Decision To Prosecute: Indictment Or Information  
     Plea Bargaining And Guilty Pleas: Constitutional Standards  
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Pretrial Criminal Procedure: Preliminary Hearing, Bail, Right To Counsel, Speedy Trial, Double Jeopardy, And Collateral Estoppel  
     The Trial: Constitutional Rights And Trial Practice:  Jury Trial, Right To Counsel,  Due Process, And Equal Protection  
     Appellate Practice And Other Post Trial Remedies  

Research Methods In Criminal Justice (JUJ-007)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Introduction To Criminal Justice Research Methods: Theory And Method.
     Ethics In Criminal Justice Research    
     Research Design: The Experimental Model And Its Variations
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     An Introduction To Alternative Data-Gathering Strategies And The Special Case Of Uniform Crime Reports
     Sampling And Survey Research: Questionnaires
     Survey Research: Interviews And Telephone Surveys    
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Participant Observation And Case Studies  
     Unobtrusive Measures, Secondary Analysis, And The Uses Of Official Statistics
     Validity, Reliability, And Triangulated Strategies
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Scaling And Index Construction
     Policy Analysis And Evaluation Research    
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Data Management: Coding, Tabulation, And Simple Data Presentation    
     Data Analysis: A User'S Guide To Statistics

Juvenile Justice (JUJ-157)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Delinquency And The Juvenile Justice System
     Theoretical Explanations Of Delinquency
     The External Environment
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Gangs
     Police And The Juvenile Offender
     The Courts And Juvenile Justice
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Diversion
     Community-Based Sanctions And Juvenile Institutions
     Goals And Effectiveness Of The Juvenile Justice System
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Organization, Bureaucracy, And Systems
     Decision Making
     Inter-Group Relations And Conflict
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Power And Politics In Juvenile Justice
     The Executives
     Juvenile Justice: An Overview And Assessment

Juvenile Law (JUJ-430)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     An Introduction To Juvenile Justice In The United States
     Measuring Delinquency: Types Of Offenders And Trends
     Theories Of Delinquency
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     An Overview Of The Juvenile Justice System
     The Legal Rights Of Juveniles
     Juveniles And The Police
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Intake And Preadjudicatory Processing
     Prosecutorial Decision Making In Juvenile Justice
     Classification And Preliminary Treatment: Waivers And Other Alternatives
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Adjudicatory Process: Dispositional Alternatives
     Nominal Sanctions: Warnings, Diversion, And Alternative Dispute Resolution
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Juvenile Probation And Intermediate Punishments
     Juvenile Corrections: Custodial Sanctions And Parole

Juvenile Justice And Ethics (JUJ-487)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Explaining Delinquency
     Patterns Of Delinquency
     Theories Of Delinquency: Bio-Psychological Explanations
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Sociological Theories Of Delinquency
     Schools And Delinquent Behavior
     Families And Delinquency
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Peers, Gangs, And Delinquency
     Females And Delinquency
     Race, Ethnicity, Class, And Delinquency
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Police And Juveniles
     Juvenile Court Process
     Juvenile Corrections
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Preventing Delinquency
     Community Response To Delinquency
     The Future Of Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Delinquency (JUJ-735)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Juvenile Delinquency
     Sociological Overview: Society, Norms, Conformity And Deviant Behavior
     The Dimensions Of The Delinquency Problem
     Biological Explanations Of Juvenile Delinquency
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Psychogenic Explanations Of Juvenile Delinquency
     Sociological Explanations Of Juvenile Delinquency
     Sociological Explanations Of Juvenile Delinquency: Social Learning And Social Control Theories
     Sociological Explanations Of Juvenile Delinquency: Labelling And Radical Theories
  In Section 3 of this course you will cover these topics:
     The Future For Causal Explanations Of Delinquency
     The Family And Juvenile Delinquency
     Schools And Delinquency
     The Youth Subculture
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Juvenile Gangs And Delinquent Behavior
     Juveniles And The Police
     Juvenile Court
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
     Juvenile Corrections
     Treatment And Prevention Programs
     Rethinking The Delinquency Problem
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