Policing and Security

• Demonstrate overview knowledge of contemporary policing and security.
• Identify critical management factors in effective policing.
• Examine policing issues of patrol, crime investigation and emergency response.

Criminal Courts and the Judicial Process

• Demonstrate overview knowledge of the criminal court system.
• Identify components of the court system relative to prosecution, defense, judicial authority, trial, conviction, sentencing, plea bargaining, and victims.
• Examine issues of judicial interpretation and administrative rules of court within the context of the criminal justice process.

Institutional and Community Corrections

• Demonstrate overview knowledge of the institutional correctional system.
• Identify major functional elements of the prison system.
• Discuss punishment versus rehabilitation in the correctional system.
• Identify the major aspects of Community Corrections related to supervision, rehabilitation, and assistance to offenders, offenders' families, and victims.

Cultural and Demographic Impacts on Justice and Security

• Identify predominant cultural influences on the administration of justice and security.
• Differentiate the cultural impacts related to gender, age, religion, and cultural backgrounds.
• Explain contemporary concerns regarding the application of justice related to aspects of culture.
• Explain the relationship between Affirmative Action, Equal Employment Opportunity, and nondiscrimination practices in relation to criminal justice systems and minority populations.

Public Justice and Private Security

• Describe the role of a Chief Security Officer.
• Give examples of essential security policies.
• Define the elements of a comprehensive security program.
• Explain the relationship between the public elements of the criminal justice system and private security personnel.
• Identify key elements in protecting personnel and property from a security standpoint.

Trends in Justice and Security

• Detail predicted future aspects and elements of policing, court operations, and correctional practices.
• Examine the changing roles of private security (privatization) in relation to all aspects of the criminal justice system.
• Summarize expected changes in the future for personnel in policing, the courts, corrections, and security.
• Compare and contrast the roles of personnel in policing, the courts, corrections, and security now and as they will evolve in the future.