Course Catalog

JUS120E American Policing (3 credits) 9490

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is an introduction to American Policing. The course will cover issues concerning policing, community relations and some of the issues that contemporary police departments struggle with in the day to day operations. The course presents special emphasis on ethics and police misconduct that defines the nature of police community relations.

LEARNING RESULTS
In this course you will learn to:
1. examine the legal, theoretical, historical and organizational foundations of American Policing.
2. analyze critical issues in policing and community relations.
3. explore differences in traditional and contemporary approaches to policing.
4. understand the problems of police deviance and its impact on police-community relations.

REQUIRED TEXTS AND MATERIALS
• An Introduction to Policing, Dempsey, John S. West/Wadsworth, 1998. ISBN: 0534546757.

• Forces of Deviance: Understanding the Dark Side of Policing, Kappeler, Victor E., Richard D. Sluder & Geoffrey P. Alpert. Waveland Press, 1998. ISBN: 0881339830

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INTEGRATION OF FAITH AND LEARNING
The integration of faith and learning occurs as the student explores the evolution of policing and the impact of past philosophy on present day policing. Students will examine the operations and strategies in the police organization, and ethical issues that impact the decision making process.

LEARNING DOCUMENTATION
To determine if the course learning results have been attained, students document their learning by submitting the following items:

Assignment #1 The Evolution of Policing
Assignment #2 The Function and Style of Policing
Assignment #3 Community Policing
Assignment #4 Police Operations and Management
Assignment #5 Police Culture
Assignment #6 Police Ethics and Deviance
Assignment #7 Police Misconduct
Assignment #8 Police Deviance
Assignment #9 Special Issues in Policing
Assignment #10 The Future of Policing

There are 10 lessons and 0 examinations for this course.

LEARNING EVALUATION
There are ten lessons in this course. Each lesson requires the student to complete two papers. The short paper will be valued a maximum of 30 points, while the longer paper will be valued 70 points. The total maximum score per lesson will be 100 points.

Lesson ten will have only one comprehensive paper that is valued 100 points.

The final grade in the course will be based on the following system:

Maximum Points: 10 Lessons @ 100 points each = 1000 points.