CRJU1109 - Law Enforcement Behavioral Science

Competencies

1. Demonstrate an understanding of victims and victims' rights.
2. Explain domestic family abuse along with effective intervention and prevention strategies.
3. Relate the essential characteristics of leadership.
4. Analyze ethics in criminal justice and ethical situations common to criminal justice employment.
5. Demonstrate various means of effective communication important to criminal justice.
6. Examine positive and negative stress in criminal justice employment and effective strategies for dealing with negative stress.
7. Interpret the concept of bias-motivated crime and living and working in a diverse culture.
8. Explore communicating effectively with a diverse culture.
9. Analyze crisis intervention skills necessary for criminal justice practitioners.
10. Examine basic personality development in terms of the scientific research of Freud and Erikson.
11. Summarize the symptoms and strategies for dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder.
12. Investigate the symptoms and short-term strategies for dealing with various abnormal personality types.