CRJU 340 - Police and Minority Relations

3 Credits

When Offered Every Spring
This course provides an examination of the relationship, interaction, and communication between the police and the minority communities they serve, protective and patrol with particular emphasis on selective enforcement, over policing, law and order, civil rights, ethical standards, structural inequality, systematic and institutional racism. In addition, the course examines the problems of police organization and management, historical formation of law enforcement in Urban and rural areas, the allocation of police resources, information systems, community relations concerns and determinants of police policy with regards to policing culturally diverse groups and subcultures within the larger community.

Prerequisite(s): SOCI 101, CRJU 201, CRJU 202, CRJU 203, CRJU 204.